Rice Cereal Anyone??

I often wonder where the time has gone with Benjamin as he reaches each new milestone. He is growing up so fast and is 5 months old today. He is such a blessing to us and we could never imagine our life without him. He is doing so much here is a list of some of his accomplishments:

*Roll over both ways (and if I might say he can get where he wants to most of the time)

*Has one tooth that has officially come in (you can see it!) and another one coming in right beside it

*Is drinking 8oz of forumula every 4-5hrs (this is so diffrent from Christian he never took 8hrs until he was almost 1 yr. old)

*Loves to play on his baby einstein mat, in his exersaucer, and has a new found joy in his Jumperoo

*Sleeps about 9hrs. straight (most nights)

*Has recently started sicking out his tounge

*Started "talking" all the time

*Loves to watch his big brother oh the spankings that will be taking place in our house I am sure of it!

*Can hold his bottle if he wants to

*Can sometimes get his paci back in when he takes it out!

*Loves the pool and Loves to get a bath

*Likes to play peek a boo- Christian like to play with him it is so cute he will cover Benjamin up and then say where the baby go then he will uncover him and say there he is!

*Can sit unassisted for about 20-30seconds

I am sure that there are many more things that I can't think of right now I will add more as they come to mind. Now for the rice ceral pictures (7/26/08)...

What is going on Mommy I want my bottle and your sticking me in my bumbo seat...

First bite...

not quite sure what to do with it or what to think!

It didn't take him long to get the hang of it look at him opening up for another bite

Dribble Dribble....I think I'll have some more please

Do you think he enjoyed it?

and of course Christian needed to have a bite...so we let him try it and believe it or not he asked for more! Well that sums up Take One of Rice Cereal at our house. We will see what take two and three bring.

Millbrook Splash Park

This morning we took the boys to the Millbrook splash park. Christian & Benjamin had lots of fun. (Although there are no pictures of Benjamin I am sad to say :(

Running through the water Watching the buckets fill up with water....Getting wet when the bucket tips over!look at those little foot prints...swimming in the big pool with Daddy

He loved jumping in

This was his not so happy face when I tried to get a picture of him wearing his hat

Tagged....

I was tagged by Cheryl So here it goes:

The Rules: Answer the questions using only one word.

Then tag four others.

1. Where is your cell phone? couch
2. Your significant other? work
3. Your hair? Messy J
4. Your mother? ???
5. Your father? ???
6. Your favorite thing? Kids (mine especially)

7. Your dream last night? none

8 Your favorite drink? Sweettea

9. Your dream/goal? Teaching

10. The room you’re in? living

11. Your hobby? blogging

12. Your fear? accidents

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Viriginia

14. What you’re not? disciplined

15. Muffins? Blueberry

16. One of your wish list items? Boat

17. Where you grew up? Virginia

18. The last thing you did? Library

19. What are you wearing? shorts

20. Favorite gadget? Camera

21. Your pets? none

22. Your computer? UMMM?

23. Your mood? mellow

24. Missing someone? no

25. Your car? van

26. Something you’re not wearing? jewlery

27. Favorite store? Target

28. Like someone? yes

29. Your favorite color? blue

30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? today

I'm tagging Whitney, Tiffany, Candace, & Emily (because I know you have the time)…

Ice Cream at Chick fil A

We went to meet Whitney, Izzy, and Olivia for lunch at Chick-fil-a last Wed. It was great to catch up! Here are a few pictures.

Christian enjoying his ice cream cone. Although he didn't care to much for the cone part. Olivia enjoying her ice cream cone Izzy enjoying her ice cream.... and

Whitney enjoying Olivia's icecream as well :)

It didn't take long for the sugar rush to hit Then it was all over when his cone hit the floor :(When we were leaving we tried to get a picture of the 4 kids together......

Take One...Take Two....Take Three....This is the one we went with- :)

RanDoM PhotOs of FUn AroUnD tHE HouSe.....

ENJOY:

Benjamin is so funny he is already starting to hold his bottle. I guess he gets tired of having to wait if Christian needs something...We went up to the seminary to walk around and put the boys in the wagon- Benjamin if you notice fit right into the cooler! :)
So cute he is looking at me like seriously mom??
Christian wanted to push Benjamin so he pushed him all around campus and what is truly amazing he was able to steer it really well and stay on the sidewalk!
We let him play in the fountain before we left he was SOO excited

He was getting soakedAll done- check out his face a look of total satisfaction Climbing the steps he wants to do everything by himself now! He is so proud of himself when he accomplishes somethingBenjamin loves his lovey his name is lopez and you can see they are in serious conversation here

For some reason this picture keep coming up the wrong way but hey check out those long eyelashes are they not to die for??Sweet dreams baby boy...so sweetHere Christian is offering Benjamin a sippy cup- if you look you can see that Benjamin opens his mouth like he knows how to drink from it! Christian now eats dinner at the table with us and not in the highchair he says sit in the big chair sit in the big chair. Also, if you notice he is doing really really well with his utensils this took him awhile to figure out he was much happier using his hand I think he felt like that was faster! Benjamin loves to play in his Bumbo seat and loves to play with this toy notice he is smiling behind his paci Our sweet friend Emily's little girl Mecaden got a cochlear implant and the night before she went to have it turned on Christian wanted to tell he good luck and he took some flowersHere he is giving the flowers to Mecaden such a gentlemenWe went to Moes to have lunch with Katie and Emory 2 weeks ago on a Tuesday and Cotton was there. She comes every Tuesday and brings insturments for the kids to play and she play guitar and sing songs. Christian really enjoyed it. Talking in the mircophone...he wasnt sure what to think! He got a guitar stamp he was so happyThis cracks me up Emory eats his applesauce through a straw- TOO FUNNY!! One last random picture that I took of Christian when he was taking his nap. Look how big he looks in his bed! Also, yes he loves having a pillow and no he usually sleeps all over the bed and not in one place so this is unusual for him

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

Friday we celebrated Ed's birthday! He had the day off so we had lots of fun. We spent the day just hanging out around the house and the Friday night we went out to dinner at Outback Steakhouse and then took a short trip to the mall.

Helping wrap Daddy's gift

Blowing out the candle on Daddy's cakeDaddy & BenjaminHelping Daddy open his present Christian picked out the paper :) Look new speakers for the Computer!!Benjamin hanging out in the exersaucer enjoying all the entertainment!Daddy's birthday cake- yes it is homemade and no I dont plan on opening a cake business anytime soon! Trust me it tasted better than it lookedEnjoying some cake with Daddy- poor Benjamin was just looking wondering if he was going to get any....I don't know that we will be able to hold him off on no sweets for a whole year.Look at that face he melts my heart....Daddy feeding BenjaminChristian enjoying his dinnnerOur family so cute and yes for those wondering Benjamin's shirt does say Little Brother.... :)