BEN

Ben Walking

I finally got a good video of Ben walking today! Just in the past few days he has started walking so much more and he keeps getting faster!

iPhone Picture's

Here are a few pictures from my iPhone from the past month or so...

 I'm not sure how Ben managed to get one arm out of him jammies or how long he had been like that!



Big kid shopping cart at Hen House! 

I swear Ben knows where the video camera is for the monitor. I love when he looks in it and starts "talking" and smiling at me!

January in the park! Happy Boy! 

Ben at Winsteads using ketchup for the 1st time! He loved it!

FaceTime with Elmo!

After swimming with his buddy Ryan! 

S & V at the Catholic Charities Snow Ball

Ben's 1st Day Of School

I finally decided that a Mom's Day Out program would be a good thing for Ben as well as for myself. So after talking to our Parents as Teachers parent educator and a few friends for recommendations I called Hillcrest Church to get some info and the director told me that they actually had an opening in their Thursday 9:30-2:30 class. So we went and toured last week and today was his first day! Ben did great at drop off-no tears. He went right in and started playing! I called at noon to check up on him and his teacher said he was doing great! When I went back to get him they told me how much fun he had! The only negative of the day was that he only slept for 25 minutes so he needed a snoozer when he got home. I hope next Thursday goes as well as today!

14 Months

Well we definitely have a very active 14 month old toddler on our hands! Ben is a little sponge these days-it is so cool watching him learn and do new things. His vocabulary keeps growing and growing. His newest words are Uh-Oh, baby, beep beep and ball. And he actually uses uh-oh in the right context! He still loves saying hello to everyone he runs into! He picks up our phones (and his) and puts it up to his ear and says hello-its so cute. He has also figured out how to turn on our iPhones-not sure if that's a great thing or not!  He loves to sing in the car and now he actually sings/says the right words. His favorite is The Ants Go Marching and he sings the boom boom boom part! If Your Happy and You Know It is also a huge hit with him and he starts clapping! He can walk across the room now but still thinks crawling is the way to go. Ben and Miles are starting to play more and more with each other. Ben loves to pet him all the time! Ben throws his ball and Miles will go get it and bring it back to him. They also love to play tug-of-war with Octi. Ben has found a new love of condiments in the past few weeks. He likes ranch, honey mustard but ketchup is his favorite! He loves to share his food with everyone now which is so nice but sometimes gross! He still has about 10 teeth and is slowly working on a few more. He love love loves brushing his teeth! He thinks he is hot stuff! With the nice weather we have been having we have been able to go to the park a few times and he loves it! He still loves the swing but now climbs on the play equipment and could go up and down the slides all day long! I think Ben's morning nap is on the way out the door. I am not very happy/excited about this. I really liked my free hour in the morning aka shower time but since he doesn't get up until 8:30-9am it seems silly to put him back down at 10 or 10:30am. So I am letting him take the lead and we just go day by day as to whether we have 1 or 2 naps. He is being super great about sitting in his crib with some books and his music playing while I take a shower in the morning so I can't complain. But he has decided that he no longer enjoys being my shopping/errand running partner. I can maybe get through 1/2 a trip to Target of Hen House before he has had enough. I knew this day would come but I thought I would have a little bit more time.