The simple joys of life!

 

A Benjamin smile - it can make your bad day HAPPY!
 

Benjamin planning his escape route..."Now if only I could walk, or even crawl..hmmmm - eh, back to hangin with mom!"

 

"1....2...3....you better be hiding mom, that's as high as I count!"
 

Happy guy - yes, he is like this every day. What a joy!

Food Glorious Food!

Benjamin LOVES to sit in his high chair and EAT. He loves the food, but his most favorite time is at the end of the meal when I give him the spoon and let him play with it. He thinks that is the best. In the top left picture you'll see he's using the spoon as a microphone and singing to his mommy since his mommy always sings to him. In the picture on the top - the third one in - he is so happy about his food that he is saying, "HALLELUJAH!" The last row just goes to show you what a goof he is - he definitely belongs to me and Josh! Benjamin is now 8 months old - I can't believe it! He is sitting on his own, rolling from his stomach to his back (never back to stomach, he doesn't like his stomach), and learning lots of new things! He is so much fun and such a good baby...or as Josh says - "He's a rad kid."

Because I knew you.....

Last month one of my bestest friends came to UT from Texas. So part of Properly Pink gathered together in SLC at Becca and Anthony's place. It was so fun to see them all...but it made me sad that my dearest Beth lives so far away. Thank goodness for technology!

 

Here we all are with the hubbies and some of our children. We're missing the girls.
 

Funny, none of Properly Pink is wearing PINK. 
 

The double B's meet....Boston on the left and Benjamin on the right
 

Benjamin is telling Boston some baby secrets via baby binky talk.

Thanks again Wilkensons and Bernards, it was a blast! We miss you guys SOOOO much!

Teething

Benjamin and I are not fans of teething. He doesn't like it because it hurts, and I don't like it because he wakes up 3 times a night. I'm glad that he and I are on the same page. :-)

6 Month pictures

Me and Benjamin had a fun time getting pictures on Saturday. Okay, I had a fun time. It took a while to get Benjamin to smile because he was so enthralled with everything around him. But his mom finally remembered something that always makes him smile. That's when we finally captured the two pictures up top which happened to be two of the last pictures he took. The only bad thing about the picture with me and my sweet son, is the fact that I forgot my wedding ring. No, I am not a single mother. I have a wonderful husband who is the greatest help. :-) So, there you have it...Benjamin in my most favorite outfit that he has. Too bad it's getting so warm...he can't wear it too much. Oh well, that's why we have pictures, right?

A dirty question (GASP!)

For all of you who were hoping to read an inappropriate post, you have come to the wrong blog. This is a question, in fact, about dirty, grimy, linoleum kitchen floors. Yes, gross, I know...who still has linoleum? That would be us - we rent a 60's themed apartment with the brown/orangy carpet and nasty brown speckled curtains. So for those of you who don't know, we're moving. It's true, we are moving. We will no longer have the nasty carpet in our new apartment and we will have a swamp cooler. We also will no longer have neighbors above us because we will be the upstairs neighbors. In fact, if we stayed in our current apartment, we would be our very own upstairs neighbors. If you didn't catch that...we're just moving upstairs from apartment 3 to 1. Sorry, it's too fun not to mention. ANYWAY, in trying to clean our nasty linoleum I have hit a dead end. The stuff constantly looks dirty no matter how hard I scrub. Does anyone out there have something that they feel works wonderfully for cleaning dirty, grimy, linoleum kitchen floors? In fact, I think I'll have a competition. The person whose product works best, will get a post especially dedicated to them. I know, who can resist this one? And just so you know, that is not a picture of our lenoleum, it's just a picture I found...ew.

BOYS rule GIRLS drool

Benjamin learned first hand this weekend why girls are bad news! Now that you know the ending of our story, let me tell you the beginning. We went to my sister's house for General Conference. Conference was amazing and truly strengthened our testimonies in a living prophet and apostles. For the Sunday afternoon session we watched a little girl because her parents had tickets for Conference. She had quite the runny nose. We were having to wipe it every half hour or so. She was a darling little girl who was VERY well behaved, but she had a bit of a cold. As our story continues... I was changing Benjamin's ONE messy diaper a week (that's another story) and she was so excited about the baby. She was at his head looking at him and, yes, breathing on him. I was a little more focused on getting my son out of his EXTREMELY messy diaper and less focused on getting her away from his air intake. Needless to say, Benjamin got a little cold. Whether it was from this sweet little girl or from somewhere else, we know not. But, he did tell me that he knows why girls (not me...I'm a mom, not a girl) are bad news.

On a different note Benjamin had his 6 month doctor appointment yesterday and is weighing in at 17 lbs 7 oz, which is the 35th percentile...so we need to beef him up a little. :-) Actually the doctor said he was doing great. His height, is 27 inches...which puts him at the 75th percentile. That makes his daddy happy! He wants a tall boy! We will post pictures of him soon!