Happy Birthday, Ben!

Ben, our solstice baby, is now 2 years old today! It's amazing how fast he's grown. It's true what they say - the days are long but the years are short. This is what Ben looked like when he was three days old:

This is what he looks like today on his second birthday.

Ben's talking a lot. He speaks fairly complete toddler sentences: "Daddy, let's go upstairs and play with trains".

He knows all of the Winnie the Pooh characters by name, and the names of a few dozen types of animals too. He's strong-willed; nowadays he has to get things done the way he wants them to be. We're working on teaching him how to compromise, and what it means for something to happen 'later'.