This past month has been quite exciting. Benjamin's little personality is developing more and more each day!
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| First Haircut! |
We have a shoe rack in the livingroom near the front door. For some reason Ben decided that this rack of shoes is the best toy in the house. Dirty, smelly old shoes! I'm constantly telling him not to put them in his mouth and to stay away from there but half the time it doesn't work. That's how it goes with a baby though. Well one night I was in the kitchen and could see him crawling towards the rack. I came around to the door way, pointed to him and said "I'm watching you!" He, standing at this point, points back at me with the biggest smile on his face! He's never pointed at me before so it cracked me up and his mocking me was quite cute!
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| Sticking out his tongue is his new favorite thing! |
Nearly every night I give Ben his night time bottle, rock him, and sing to him. A few nights ago after he finished his bottle we were in his room rocking and I started to sing. He put his hand on my mouth and proceeded to do the singing! "dadadada dada dadada..." until he closed his little eyes and fell asleep. Melt my heart!
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| Playing with Natalie at the splash park! |
He's getting more and more confident with standing and cruising. On August 14th he took his first step! He was walking along using my fingers, let go and took a step all by himself. He then proceeded to sit down and crawl to his Daddy. We were both so so proud!
He loves Elmo. Sometimes in the morning before breakfast I'll put on Sesame Street and since Elmo is the last thing on we'll watch some of it together. His favorite color has been red for a long time, so I bet Elmo is just awesome to him. A couple months ago we got him a small stuffed Elmo for the car and he holds on to him when we're going places. He also puts Elmo's eyes in his mouth, but I'm sure Elmo doesn't mind.
Ben's teething again. I can see 7 total.
He's getting to be more and more into climbing. He thinks it's great fun to climb up the stairs so we follow him sometimes. I've been working with him on how to scoot on his bum down the stairs. He does okay, but he gets so excited to get down faster he'll trip himself up. So we just go slow, one step at a time.
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| At the circus! |
Benjamin went to his first circus! Ringling Bros put on a good show. He saw tigers and elephants and clowns. He had a good time, other than when the Ringmaster was making announcements, it was so loud and scared Ben a little.
He has figured out how to open the baby gates! We have to be sure to actually lock them now because the little bugger knows if he lifts the handle it will open! He's too smart for his own good!
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| My little boy is going to be a year old soon! <3 |
