Sit, Stay, Roll over!

On Wednesday I was changing the sheets on our bed to do laundry, and I was playing peek-a-boo with Ben while I put the new ones on. Ben got ahold of the sheets and started sucking on them, and with the death grip that babies have, he wouldn’t let go, yanked on them and pulled himself onto his side and landed on his stomach. Although he didn’t roll over all by himself, it is definitely a start! A few minutes later he did it again without the sheets to help him. Now it is just a matter of time before he is doing it all the time, next step. . . crawling!

Swiming time!

On July 3rd Ben went swimming for the very first time! I bought him a swimming suit a while back and I could hardly wait to see him in it. We went over to my parent’s house to go swimming. I handed Ben to Jeska while I got in the pool and then she handed him to me. He really didn’t mind it at all, and occasionally we caught him smiling! He loved being held at arm’s reach so he had room to kick his legs and wiggle a bit. I guess it is time for the baby floating tube! He played in the pool for about half an hour before he started getting tired and hungry. So we got out of the pool and fed him and put him to sleep in his swimsuit. About half an hour to an hour later he woke up and we got right back into the pool. He was so cute and so cool with everything! I hope this continues so we can continue to have fun in the pool.

discovery of the rubber ducky

Ben loves bath time. He loves to move his toes in and out of the water and watch them wiggle and squirm around. After a few days of him deciding that bath time wasn’t so bad, I introduced his first bath toy. Ben received about 8 rubber duckies as baby gifts and I figured it wouldn’t hurt to introduce it to him. So I placed the green rubber ducky in his tub and he was instantly entertained. He loves to kick the duck and move it around the tub, then using both legs he pulls it up close to him and he tries to grab it with his hand. He hasn’t quite mastered that yet, but he will shortly and in the meantime he likes to try while he slashes in the tub!

Neil is Here!

Well . . . I am officially an Aunt . . . it is weird to think that but I am. On June 25th, Chloe started to feel really sick and started to see spots, so she went into the doctor and her blood pressure was extremely high 168/111, so she was immediately hospitalized.

On the 26th she was life flighted to the hospital on 5300 south. It was there that they were able to stabilize her blood pressure through medication. She was doing really good so they gave here some medication to start developing Neil’s lungs and told us they were going to wait until Sunday to deliver him (if they didn’t Chloe’s kidneys and liver would shut down and then she would loose her baby) Then at 7:30 pm her blood pressure shot up again and they decided to do an emergency c-section. At 7:54 pm Neil Matthew was born and whisked away to the NICU. Fortunately he was able to scream when he was born, meaning that his lungs are developed enough to work. Now it is just a matter of waiting to see how long he is in the hospital, but mother and baby are doing great!

Bens Blessing

Ben was given a name and a blessing on June 7th, it was a wonderful day! The few days prior to the event I enjoyed shopping for the cutest little white suit for him to wear, I looked at several places including the distribution center, but I found my favorite, and somewhat cheapest outfit at babies’ r us. I was so excited when I found it and Ben looked adorable in it! When the blessing began, Ben was fine, until Todd finished his name, then his pacifier fell out, and that was the end of his cooperation. It was funny how loud he could cry into the microphone! After sacrament meeting everyone came over to our house for waffles and to socialize. After the meeting, we started to make the waffles with all of our waffle irons (Mine, Mom’s, VaLee’s and Grandma Wilson’s) yeah . . . that tripped the breaker a few times. Ben slept all through sacrament (After his blessing) and until noon so most of the day was socializing, but once he woke up he gave us the cutest pictures of him smiling in his little suit and it was wonderful to see him with all the family.

the piano is tuned!

Yesterday was a fun and exciting day cause we got the piano tuned! I bought Todd a piano for Christmas, and since it was so horribly out of tune, he wouldn’t play it for very long, we have been waiting for 6 months to be able to afford it, finally, after receiving money from our insurance, we are able to do it! It sound so much better and Todd has begun to play it already. He is a wonderful musiciPianoan! So far he has written songs for me, Ben and most of the members of his family. He also likes writing parodies and composing some wonderful arrangements of the hymns. I love to hear him play.
Ben has a little infection in his mouth making him a bit fussy. To give him his medicine, I take a q-tip and dip it in the medicine and swab out his entire mouth. So far the medicine hasn’t worked but they say that thrush can be hard o get rid of.
I am working on a cross stitch for Ben’s room. It is a giraffe. I am so excited to work on it and it is coming along nicely. His room is going to be decorated in a jungle theme, so this will be a great start!

The Circle of Life

So, it's Todd's turn to do the Blogosphere today, yay. We had some fun experiences the last couple of days with nature. We had burritos for dinner on saturday, Lodema made some taco meat and we had refried beans and cheese and all that good stuff. We finished eating, but were talking to our neighbor Angela, so the meat was sitting for a little while on the stove. When Lodema went to put it away, she saw a fly on the top of the meat, and shooed it away. When she looked at where the fly was sitting, she saw some stuff that looked like rice, but really tiny. Yep, for those of you farmiliar with Fly Larvae and Eggs, you know, that the fly had just left us a present in our taco meat. Needless to say, the whole batch was thrown out. fortunately there was only a little left thanks to my enourmous appetite. Sunday we had a better encounter with nature. We came home from church, and i was about to open the door when Lodema freaked out. I looked around quickly and she said "oh, i thought it was a mouse", well, I couldn't see anything i thought that she meant the tire in our garage moved, but when i craned my neck over the lawn mower there was a little bird just sitting there! It couldn't really fly, but hopped around a bit, like a baby bird, fluttering it's wings and going a little ways, but not acheiving liftoff. We wondered if it was hurt, so we chased it around the carport for a bit, but the two funniest things it did, was #1-hoping onto lodema's foot (wearing just a sandal-like sunday shoe) which made her scream, causing the bird to say "whoa, i don't wanna land there after all", and when it half-flew down to the end of our carport and rammed straight into the gate. It's a solid wood gate that was not open at all. so, it was like watching a bird run into a wall. It was so funny, i kinda felt bad for laughing, but i figured heavenly father would understand. He has a good sense of humor right? anyway we asked my great-uncle across the street to come and look at it to see if it needed help, he came over and informed us that it was just a baby starling separated from it's parents. The parents would either come and find it or it would eventually feed a starving cat. So we nudged it out into the open and it hopped away. What a fun experience huh? such is the circle of life:) either be nurtured and taken care of by your parents, or be eaten by a carnivorous feline. what a great life lesson:)