Top of the week to ya! This Sunday was the Bear’s 14 Month Birthday, and I think that is just plain special! Since everyone seems to like to see pictures of him, and his grandparents most especially miss him, I thought I would arrange a special Top Ten plus Four for you this week, with 14 of our favourite photos of our special wee man.

Hope you enjoy!

1. This one is from the day he was born… His first good shot in good lighting. (The delivery room was kind of dark at 2 am.)

2. This one is from when my Mom was visiting and helped him nap on his tummy so I could get some rest…

3. Aunt Dodi gave him this adorable onesie and he just posed so well in it!

4. One day, I got ready to take the Bear outside in the Scottish cold. I bundled him up and left the room for a moment, because I’d forgotten something. He started crying while I was away. I wondered why he seemed so upset, but then he got really quiet. This is what I returned to…

5. This was taken the first time he saw a Christmas tree. If you look closely, you can see the lights of the tree in his eyes!

6. This was at a snugly wuggly bafftime.

7. This was also an outfit from Aunt Dodi…also taken in South Africa. How precious is this baby zebra?

8. This was in America when he found his feet for the first time. I had no idea how adorable babies playing with their feet could be. We took lots of pictures of him in this pose because he was just being so adorable. At first we got lots of naked shots, which were of course so cute and funny, but then we decided to slap a nappy on him so that he didn’t grow up to rue the day his parents bought a camera. I think that was a good decision.

9. Here is the Bear, posing as a very very very young version of Rocky. Adwiannnn!

10. You may have already seen this one…still a personal favourite. The hair, the moobs, the drool…fabulous.

11. I call this one ‘the bairn upon the rock’ because this is on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland and ‘bairn’ is a Scots word for child. I don’t know why I love this one. I just do! (Mark was hiding behind the rock to make sure he didn’t fall off!)

12. Sorry, Mom…I just can’t let this one go. I mean look at his face! (And yours! Tehe!)

13. This was at the Bear’s First Birthday Party! He had some of his amazing jungle birthday cake and I think he rather liked it!

14. And here he is … looking almost grown up! Our 14 Month Old Bear!

So that’s the fantastic fourteen! Many thanks to the little bundle bringing us so much joy!  Happy Birthday Bear!