Toes, toes, toes!

So Ben has discovered his toes! He loves playing with them and putting them in his mouth! i know, it's gross but it's so cute watching him! We took video of him putting his toes in his mouth. If you listen, you can even hear him sucking on his big toe like a nuk! It's so gross but so hilarious and he loves it! Once he saw the camera he started reaching for it and rolling toward Mommy. Then he moved his attention to the ball in the corner. He's a man on the move!




We took some pictures of Ben near our pumpkin. He looked much cuter in real life but I love the pictures anyway. We bought the onesie at the Fryeburg Fair. I love the tie dye!





Ben rolls all over the place now. I was working on my room one day and set him on the carpet. He rolled from one side of the room to the other. Then he made his way to a pile of clothes I had on the floor. He is such a funny guy!





Last but not least here are his 26 week pictures. My little baby is turning into a little boy! It's happened so quickly!

Pruney Ben!

Ben turned 24 weeks on Wednesday. He keeps trying to move around so much. I know he can't wait to crawl.



Mom and Sue moved in on Thursday. Everyone did a lot of work to get them in. Ben was so excited to see his Grammy and Auntie early this morning. It was such a surprise for him!

I gave Ben prunes for the very first time last night. I know. What was I thinking? At first he made the most awful face and I didn't think he was going to eat them at all. But then he dived right in! :) He kept trying to grab the spoon and feed himself. Every time he let go of the spoon, he would touch his face or his leg or some other body part. He kept getting progressively messier and messier! It was awful but so funny!

Mom and Sue bought Ben a Rainforest Jumperoo. Sue put it together tonight and Ben tried it out. He was so funny bouncing around it. He loves to move!

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Ben and mommy hanging out

Here are Ben's 23 week pictures.

We took Ben on Sunday to Kiddie Kandids to have his pictures done. They did a great job! I will definately go back.

I've been tagged

Sorry it's been so long. I finally have my laptop back so I'm going to be able to keep up with the blog better, I hope. I was tagged by my cousin, Stacy, so I'm going to start with that. I'm supposed to come up with 8 interesting facts so here they are.

1. When I was a little girl, I loved Cinderella. I loved the movie and the book and everything about Cinderella. I loved it so much I used to call myself Cinderella Jo-Jo.

2. At 13 months and 18 months, I stopped breathing due to a seizure caused by a high fever. The first time it happened my mom was holding me. The second time it happened I was with my Aunt Jeanne. Both times I was rushed to the hospital. My mom tells me that the second time they went to the hospital with me, she refused to leave until they told her what was wrong with me.

3. I was so homesick when I went to college for the first time that I decided to try to drive home on my first weekend there. I thought that I93 north would take me to Maine. I ended up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and then proceeded to get stranded there when my clutch on my car burned out. My mom received a call from the New Hampshire state police and had to come get me at 3 in the morning.

4. I have such small, bad veins that the only time I tried to give blood I was turned away. I was told to come back when I grew veins.

5. I love cooking shows. I don't know what it is about them. I love watching all the food that they prepare on the shows. I never make any of them and I really don't like to cook but I love watching them and thinking about how the food would taste. :)

6. Near my 22nd birthday, I decided to go to the dealership and trade in my perfectly good automatic Cavalier for a new car. I got talked into a shiny red car that I loved but that was a standard. I hadn't had a standard since burning out the clutch on my very first car and really didn't know how to drive a standard still. I left that day with a car that I couldn't drive. I don't think my mom has ever been so mad at me as she was that day.

7. My husband and I worked on our house together while I was pregnant with Ben. I ran wire, cleaned, hung electrical boxes and god only knows what else. I worked on the house with Jason until right before I had Ben. There were many times when I had moments of hatred for this house because of all the work we had to put into it. But now I'm grateful we did so much work for it and love my house.

8. I would love to have a big family. I love doing family get together types of things and would love to have a bunch of kids. Jason jokes that he would like a baseball team of kids. I'll stop at 4 and that will be enough for me. I love being a mother and hope that I have the opportunity to be a mom to at least 3 more kids.

I love being a mom to my little boy. I never realized how amazing it would be to have a little boy. I always imagined my first child being a girl. I'm so glad that I had a boy and wouldn't trade him for anything. He continues to amaze me with how he grows and changes.

We watched the Toy Run last Sunday. We go every year and watch it. Motorcycle riders ride with toys to Augusta for needy kids. We love seeing the bikes and wouln't miss it. It was a little noisy for Ben and I had to cover his ears. I couldn't believe that he fell asleep during it even with all that noise.



After the Toy Run, we went to an annual family picnic that is held after the Toy Run every year. The Bauers are long time family friends of Jason's family. There is always a lot of food and is nice to visit with everyone. It poured during the picnic. That part was awful. We tried to keep cozy with blankets so it wasn't too bad but I couldn't believe how much it rained.



Here are Ben's 22 week pictures.



I have a friend who's mother made Ben a beautiful sweater with mittens and booties before he was born. It's just become cool enough for Ben to wear them and I took a couple of pictures of him in it. He looks so cute!



My sister bought Ben an orange pumpkin hat a long time ago. I put it on him today and his eyes look so blue in it!



I promise to update sooner this week! I will get better at this! :)

We survived!

So we survived our first week of going back to work and daycare. It went better than I thought it would although I missed my boy like crazy! I love working with my kids at school but I wish I could spend all day with Ben too.

My mom and my sister bought Ben an excersaucer to play with. He loves it! He moves himself all around to play with all the different toys. He loves hearing the animal sounds. It's so fun to watch him.

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Ben turned 20 weeks last Wednesday. He is such a character now!



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Ben tried sweet potatoes for the first time on Sunday. Surprisingly, he didn't like them as much as he liked the peas! He made all kinds of funny faces but he still at them.


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My friend, Julie, dropped off some clothes for Ben today. Her son, Matthew, will be a year in October so Ben will have a little friend in the future. The clothes were so cute! We played dressup and here are some pictures of Ben.



It looks like I'll get my laptop back by the end of this week so hopefully I can be better at updating. I'm trying and I hope that people are enjoying hearing about Ben.

Sigh!

Sorry it's been so long but my laptop crashed and I have been without a computer to update Ben's blog. I'm using my mom's computer right now and hopefully I'll have my computer back soon.

Sigh! That's about all I can say about the last week or so. Ben caught his 1st cold about a week and a half ago. He was all congested and sneezing and coughing. Well then his cold moved into his eyes and he got conjuncitivitis. We went to the pediatricians to take care of his eyes and discovered he had the start of an ear infectiion. So now Ben is on medicine for his eyes and for his ears. The poor baby! On top of that, my little guy managed to pass along his cold to me, his dad and his grammy. What a good little sharer he is! We're all starting to get over our colds and Ben is feeling much better. The conjunctivitis cleared up after only a day of medicine. I have to say he was in such good spirits the whole time even after being so sick. He is such a good baby!

Ben spent two mornings at daycare the past couple of weeks. It went really well. They are just all in love with him there. He's the youngest baby and getting spoiled! They are keeping a journal of what he does while at daycare so I won't feel like I'm missing everything although I probably still will.

I took a couple of pictures of Ben with a teddy bear my mom bought for him. It's really cool because the bear lights up with different colors. It also has a remote wand that you can use to change the colors.



My brother, Chris, came up from Florida to visit for a couple of days. He's living down there now and hadn't seen Ben since he was about 3 weeks old. It was nice to see him and nice for him to see how much his nephew has grown. Chris bought Ben a couple of onesies as well as a little stuffed moose. Ben was so cute playing with it the other day.

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Here are Ben's 19 week pictures.

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We went yesterday to a lobster bake that was held by Jason's father's work. They had lobsters, clams, steak and lots of other good food. It was held on Cousin's Island in Yarmouth. It was beautiful out there and there was a nice breeze. It was a lot better than being stuck in town where it was so hot and the lobster was good!

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Finally, I go back to work tommorow. :( My time with Ben is at an end. My mom is watching him on Mondays as she has every Monday off. Ben's first official day at the daycare will be Tuesday. I know he'll be ok but I'm just not ready for it. I'll let you know later how everything goes.

What a big boy!

I forgot in my last post to mention a couple of things. First, Ben rolled over for the very first time last Friday! It was so exciting! He started on his belly and then rolled onto his side which he's done many times before. Then he continued all the way over to his back I couldn't believe it. I was so proud of him! He did again a couple of days later and he seems to be getting stronger all the time.

I also brought him to the pediatrician's on Friday for his 4 month check up. He is getting to be a big boy! He's 15 pounds 9 ounces and 25 inches long! I can't believe sometimes that he's the same little boy that I brought home from the hospital. He got 4 shots while we are at the doctor's. The poor little guy. He did really well though. He cried for a couple of minutes and then was fine. He wasn't even fussy the rest of the day.

Our pediatrician, Kristy, told me that we could start him on some rice cereal since he seems to be getting hungry more often lately. So on Sunday I gave him his first taste of rice cereal. He was so funny! I don't think he knew what to think of it at first but then he got right into it.

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Finally, Ben turned 18 weeks today. I don't have any pictures yet but here's a video I took today.

A long update!

It's been a long time but here's what Ben and I have been doing the last week or so.

Last weekend, me and Ben and Ben's Auntie Sue drove to
Rockland for the lobster festival. It was a nice drive up and we saw a beautiful field of sunflowers in Leeds. I had never seen so many sunflowers!

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It was really hot when we got to Rockland so we ended up only staying for an hour and a half. But we had fun looking at everything and eating some bad food. :) I had some great Thai food there and Sue and I shared some fries. Neither one of us got any lobster because the line for the lobster tent was way too long! But we still had a great time.

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Ben was 17 weeks this week. Here are his oh so cute pictures!

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On Thursday, we met two of my friends from school at a beach in Wayne. Sara has a 2 year old little girl, Piper, and Morgan has a 7 1/2 month little boy, Nolan. We went in the water and had some lunch. Ben loves looking at other kids. It was fun seeing him interact with them.

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Yesterday we went to Popham Beach in Phippsburg. This is only the second time Ben has been to the ocean. He really seemed to like it even though the water was a little cold. It was so fun to see his little feet in the water.

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I'll try to be a little better next week about keeping everyone updated. Things just got way too busy this week. Oh well! :)

Our week so far

We had a busy week this week. I worked on Monday and Tuesday while my mom watched Ben. It went well and was not as hard as I thought it would be although I definitely missed my little man. That Monday night, we went to Longhorn's with Jason's parents and his brother to celebrate Margie's birthday, his mom. Here are some pictures.

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Ben loves playing on his boppy pillow like I've said before. He was so funny the other day. He was playing and then just fell asleep with both hands holding onto toys. I just couldn't resist snapping a picture.



On Wednesday, Ben was 16 weeks or 4 months old. I love that we've taken pictures of Ben each week from the beginning. It's wonderful to be able to look back and see how much he's grown. You can see how much he's grown in the two pictures below.

Now here are the rest of Ben's 16 week pictures.

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Ben and I also met a bunch of teachers from school at Vicky's hot dog stand yesterday. Vicky is an ed tech that works at my school. I really enjoy going to her hot dog stand and try to go at least 2-3 times during the summer. Her hot dog stand is located by USM college in Lewiston. She's very friendly and a wonderful lady. Stop by and talk to her if you're in the area. We had a lot of fun visiting with everyone.

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Oops!

I realized last night that I forgot to post some pictures that I took last Tuesday of Ben on his boppy pillow. He really likes playing with the toys. He started grabbing one of the toys and pulling it over to his mouth to gnaw on it! It was so funny and now he does it everytime he plays on the boppy.

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Ben's grandma and grandpa(Jason's mom and dad) came to visit yesterday at the house. Ben was having a good time seeing them and playing with them.

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I took some more pictures of Ben in his Bumbo seat. He just looks so cute in it! He was playing with Daddy while he was sitting in it. Then him and Daddy just cuddled on the couch together. I'm so proud of my handsome men!

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We went to a barbecue today for Jordan who is the son of Kelly, a long time family friend of Jason's family. It was a lot of fun to see all of them because it's been a long time since we've seen them. Jordan is going off to college in the fall. We would have liked to stay longer but it was way too hot for Ben. The poor little guy was sweating a lot! I realized what a small community we live in now. I went to the party thinking I was only going to know Kelly and Jason's parents. I saw at least 5 people there that I knew from teaching at my school. I really wish it hadn't been so hot so we could have stayed longer. We did get to see Kelly's sister, Gretchen, while we were there. Gretchen is going to be taking care of Ben when I go back to work. Like Kelly, Gretchen has been a long time friend of Jason and they grew up together. Her house is just around the corner from us and I feel confident that Ben will do great there. Jason's mom tells me that Gretchen has loved babies since she was a little girl so I know Ben will be greatly loved! Gretchen just told us that she is pregnant with her fourth child. She's due in February and I'm so excited for her! She has 3 little girls now and it will be really exciting to see what this one will be.

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Finally, I'm going to be working tomorrow and Tuesday at the school. Tomorrow will be my first day apart from Ben. My mom and Jason are going to take care of Ben. I know he will be ok but it's me I'm worried about! :) I guess it will be good for me and Ben but it's just going to take some getting used to.

15 weeks and still growing!

Ben turned 15 weeks on Wednesday. I can hardly believe how quickly the time has gone by. Here are our 15 weeks pictures.

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We had a play date with my friend Sara and her little girl, Piper. Sara is the teacher that I co teach with. She's due with her second baby in November and is having a little boy. Piper is two years old now and so cute. She keeps finding her old nuks and tries to give them to her baby brother through Sara's belly button! I'm sorry I don't have any pictures but you'll just have to take my word on how cute Piper is! :)

We had a play date yesterday with our friends' little girl, Abby Violet. Abby is 4 weeks old and about 7 pounds. Ben looks so big compared to her. It's hard to remember when he was that small. I know my memory is only going to get worse as he gets bigger!

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So for the most part everyone that I've run into when Ben and I are out and about have said really nice comments and been really sweet. The other day we were walking into Best Buy to look for a cord for our camcorder. I was carrying Ben in his car seat. These two older women were walking a couple of steps behind us. One of the women said to the other one, "Quick. You trip her and I'll take the baby." I know she was probably joking but I was horrified and very angry. No one should say stuff like that even in a joking manner in this day and age. I was so angry! On top of that, she made a comment that I was holding him wrong which I didn't get because there was nothing wrong with the way I was holding my son. I really wish I had said something to them but it's not my personality to do that. I was really angry with myself for not saying something though. I really wish I had and I think if that ever happens again I will!

I am very excited though. We received part of automobile insurance premium back yesterday. I guess it's something that State Farm does when business is good. Yeah for us! I hadn't been able to take any video of Ben because we lost the charging cord to our camcorder in our move to the new house. With the money we got back I was able to buy an inexpensive camera so I can record Ben. Here's the camera I ordered today.
http://www.amazon.com/Flip-Video-Camcorder-60-Minutes-Black/dp/B000ONDRFS/ref=dp_variations_2/002-1252306-6309651
It's supposed to arrive on Tuesday and I can't wait to use it! Hopefully I can begin to post some video of Ben really soon.

Ben is doing all kinds of new things now. He's blowing raspberries at us and still making a lot of sounds. He also like to gnaw on anything he can get his mouth on. We've been working on belly time although it's not his favorite thing in the world. We try to do at least a couple of minutes a day. Here's some pictures we took today. He's doing a great job lifting his head and chest. He's even moving his legs now too. When you look at the pictures, notice the chubby thighs! They're so cute!!

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I just wanted to say thank you for all the comments that people have left on our site. I love reading them and knowing that people are enjoying hearing about Ben. Like I've said before, I did this website so our friends and family could view pictures of Ben and know how he is doing. If you know of anyone who would like to see pictures of Ben, please pass the website address along to them. Thanks and all our love to everybody! :)