Ben likes to play in his play pen and one day Blake caught him on video trying to escape!
He’s a very active little big guy!
Category Archives: Baby development
Ben is 6 months old!
He can sit up on his own. He now sits in high chairs at restaurants. He’s been eating food for a few months. He scoots (a precursor to crawling I think). No teeth yet but soon. He approx. 17 pounds. His next doctor’s appointment is on Friday – I’m interested to see how tall he is. We saw another baby at a restaurant yesterday. She was half Ben’s size but 9 months old.
Sitting up
We’re working on sitting up… he’s doing pretty good!
Ben’s an opera singer
Ben’s singing and Blake’s jiggling Ben’s tummy to make him an opera singer! We’re very easily amused.
5 months!
Ben is now 5 months old. So far he loves green beans and bananas, hates carrots, and tolerates apples. He’s pretty happy baby.
Ben hates food
So Ben officially hates carrots. And apples. And bananas. Basically, he’s not really into food. So we’re back to just the boob, and rice cereal when he’s in the mood for that.
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- Ben & Great-Grandma Barbiecakes (Barbara)
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- Ben watching Chip
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- “Get outta here, I’m naked!”
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- Ben & “Uncle” Mike
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- Ben in his crib hugging a lion
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- Ben at Granny Daycare 🙂
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- Ben & hairy daddy
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- Ben & Grandpa Jay
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- Trying the apples…
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- Hating the apples!
New toy: Sing-a-ma-jig
We bought Ben a Sing-a-ma-jig, which he loves, as well as this weird Cookie Monster toy.
Fun with carrots
Today we introduced carrots! He didn’t like them by themselves, but this evening I mixed them with his cereal and he liked them fine.
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- Blake’s friend Mike’s mom needlepointed this bib.
First meal
Last night Ben had his first meal: organic rice cereal. He was underwhelmed by the experience.
Because he is thin for his height, the doctor told us to start feeding him so he’ll get some in the morning at Ganny’s and some before bed. Scary that I’m in charge of someone else’s nutrition – I can’t even manage my own!
4 month check-up
Ben went to the doc today. He is 14 lbs. 6 oz. (50th percentile) and 27″ long (off the charts tall). The doc gave us the ok to introduce foods, especially because he’s so tall.
He got a bunch more shots but he handled them well – only a little crying.
He’s doing good though. We were able to answer “yes” to all the milestones for 4 months. And just this morning he began to roll from his back to his tummy, so now he can roll both ways – 6 month or so milestone.