Moving Up

Well Ben was moved up to the 'crawling' room today at daycare. Now hopefully he learns from his friends and actually starts to crawl. He's getting close so here's a video of him today on the floor. His new thing is to get up on his tippie toes and he will lunge forward so he'll probably be mobile in the next few weeks......I think. (And I apologize for the Halloween bib.)



The dog is still his best friend of course and we can always count on her to put a smile on his face. So far she's still receptive of him, but I think it's because of the food and drool around is mouth/bib. Kind of gross, I know, but we try to keep her from actually licking him so she follows him around in the hopes that he drools on the floor.

Cousins

Stl style

Unhappy New Year

Yep, unfortunately the new year is not off to a good start. I really hope that's not a sign of how this year will be.

To start - Ben got blueberry's on tuesday and apparently those didn't go over well. He threw them up all night and then the next morning for his bottle he drank it all and then that came up also. Guess I should learn to monitor how quickly and how much he should drink on a really empty tummy that's upset. Since then he's not taken more than 3-4 oz a feeding with it mainly being only about 1-2 at most. Normally he's around 6 so it's quite a change. He's also not eating as much solids anymore which means he's probably losing weight. The only thing we can get him to take is watered down gatorade through a syringe. Fun times. That helped hydrate him enough yesterday to get the minimum wet diapers (yes there apparently is a minimum they should have, 5, or one every 4 hours). Oh - and he's refusing to nap now even though he used to take at least 2 decent naps before. At least he's still sleeping through the night, but I'm afraid that may not last either. It's like he's a different kid now. Crazy.

Then on Friday night I made a turkey with some bad oil which gave both Brian and I food poisoning so we were not feeling so hot come 2am Saturday. Brian got over it on Saturday afternoon, but I was not over it until late Saturday night. It was miserable on top of an unhappy kid. Luckily we were able to get Brian's mom to come over yesterday morning to help out so Brian and I could get some rest sort of. That was a major help and I'm not sure we would've been able to survive without her! Update - it appears that I did not try to poison Brian and I, instead it was the stomach bug which we must have got from Ben and then unfortunately handed off to his mom who in turn passed it around to a few other family members. Sorry!!!

So - if anyone has suggestions or ideas on how to jumpstart this new kid we have to get back the way he was I would love to hear it.

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas!

We headed to the lou for xmas again and it was a lot of fun. Ben enjoyed his first Christmas and stayed up late on Christmas eve over at Momo's (my grandma) house. There was so much going on that he just wanted to be a part of it.

Christmas Morning (in Papa's hat)


Ben all wrapped up.......................Opening his first present on Christmas morning


Ben with Mallory & Riley...............Caroline holding Ben


Ben & Deebo as reindeers........... Ben with Papa (notice what Ben is holding - Holy Benjamins!)


Then on Christmas it snowed and gave a great dusting so that it was truly a white Christmas. Although when we got back home we noticed that we had a lot more snow - I'd guess almost a foot or so and it's still snowing! Just look at our deck!

7 Month Mark!

Yep - Ben hit 7 months just before Christmas. He's having a blast lately rolling around and playing on the floor although after a bit it leads to frustration that he can't crawl. Still thinking we're pretty close to that milestone since he will get up on all fours and lung forward. Ben is definitely a mover and has a ton of energy. I have a feeling once he's mobile we won't be able to keep up with him, but at least for now all the movement is stuck to rolling or pushing himself backwards. You can only get so far that way (luckily for me).

Click on the pic for a slideshow of the last month.



Merry (early) Christmas to everyone ! We get to spend it with my family so I know Ben will be excited to see all his cousins!