Christmas Eve Pictures

Here are a few from Christmas Eve – when Walter’s family traditionally does their gift exchange.  We (Me, Walter, our kids) do ours Christmas morning. Investigating the tree and gifts at Uncle Jim and Aunt Shari’s Checking out his new toy Playing with the box Now on to the toy itself Playing with big sister [...]

Pictures

Here is Benjamin with my friend Sarah’s baby Aaden.  Aaden was born on 8-28 and weighed 7 lbs something, I forget, sorry Sarah!  This was taken on 9-3. On 9-14 I got all excited because I thought Ben was going to start holding his bottle on his own, but alas, it was a fluke. LOL [...]

Benjamin’s first State Fair

So we went to the State Fair today. Last year it was literally 100 degrees and I did not go. Today it was only 85 so we went. I am not overly enthusastic about the Fairs; there’s not a whole lot to see that interests me. But anyway, here is Benjamin outside the Petting Zoo… [...]

Rolling over in earnest now!

For a long time Benjamin has been rolling from his belly to his back. He started doing that at 3 weeks because he hated “tummy time” so much. About 3 weeks ago he started rolling from his back to his belly, but only here and again. This morning when I woke up he was on [...]

July summary

Benjamin was busy in July… he learned to roll over from his back to his belly… he started grabbing at the toys on his exersaucer… and he found his thumb. He’s been sucking on his hand and fingers for a while, but now after a bit of work can get his thumb in there. We [...]

Who does Benjamin look like?

I don’t think he looks like me at ALL! Here he is for easy comparison.

Family portraits

Oops, I forgot to post these, Benjamin was 10 weeks old here. There are some from when he was 4 weeks old that I had taken in New Jersey, but my sister had to pick them up after we came back here, and she still hasn’t mailed them or scanned them for me. Grrr!

Benjamin holding his head up high

Benjamin used to seriously hate “tummy time.” Now if I put him on his stomach he will be content to hold his head up high for a short while and look around, then he gets bored and rolls onto his back. Here he is holding his head up high. The pictures are crappy because I [...]

Second place at baby show!

Out here in Missouri there are a lot of “baby shows.” I think they generally go up to age 2. They split them up between gender and age category, and generally they have to wear just a plain white T-shirt or onesie. Until the end of this month Benjamin will be in the 0-3 months [...]

12 weeks – almost 3 months old already!

I cannot believe how fast the last three months have gone. I haven’t been at the computer much lately and so haven’t written but here’s what Benjamin is up to these days. He likes to play with his “Mr. Sunshine’ toy and bat at the toys, which makes it play music and talk. He LOVES [...]