Going Mobile

Ben is starting to "scoot" himself around on his belly. He doesn't have the strength yet to elevate his big torso but when he wants a closer look at something he pushes with his feet and pulls with his hands to move himself closer.

The Latest

Early this morning while Courtney slept, Ben and Tom had their usual routine of feeding, tummy time, lap time and diaper changing. The latest: Ben appears to have discovered that the knobby things that keep hitting him in the face are his hands. During feeding he held the bottle and looked at his hands. He also appears to have discovered that the other knobby things that occasionally come into his line of sight are his feet. He put it all together by taking hold of his foot while looking at it more than once. And finally, he sucked his thumb, more than once, and while doing that he wrapped his index finger around his nose the way Courtney used to do, all the way up to the age of...And that's the latest.

A Post Without a Picture...Sort of

While Courtney is awakened throughout the night to see to Ben's nourishment, Tom's sleep as well is not without issues - marked by extreme fitfulness, frequent awakening, punctuated by an endless littany of dreams about babies: baby situations, baby scenarios. The dream Tom just awoke from merits mention because of the way it veered into interesting new territory. In this dream there was a clown, very tall and fully grown. The clown looked like Bozo but with the coloring of Ronald McDonald. In the dream, the clown was in fact supposed to be the actor John Cleese underneath the makeup and costume but in point of fact turned out to be our baby boy Ben as evidenced by the sounds he made when he opened his mouth.

Back to bed...

Ben takes a walk

Filling diapers and screaming for more milk is hard work. Though Ben is dedicated to these tasks, he is learning to take time to smell the flowers...

Ben's room

Right now, Ben loves his changing table, and we love that it has drawers.

Like father like son

Wait a minute....why is he getting the nap?

First bath pics

Only tasteful pictures of course...

Ben's Exercise Video

Ben is flexing his muscles in anticipation of his 1 month birthday tomorrow. See his new video HERE.

More proof that he is advanced for his age...or more parental bragging

He is smiling, and no, it isn't gas.

More head lifting...











What these pictures don't show, is that shortly after this he rolled over on to his back assisted only by gravity.

What a strong boy...

Ben held his head up for about 3 minutes straight, though he did start to look like a bobblehead doll by the end. He also straightened his legs and was able to push his body up off of mine...he's almost crawling!
 

Pics with grandparents

Nana and Grampa


Mimi and GP



















Omi

Status Check

Not to be outdone by his California cousins, Ben has added a new trick to his repertoire. In addition to holding up his head for over 5 seconds, filling 3 diapers at one changing, and once sleeping for 5 hours straight, he has now added projectile vomiting over a foot. We are so proud! But sorry, no pictures of this one.