Exciting news from day care yesterday — Ben said three new words!
- cold
- off
- all done
I have also heard him try to say the words “pasta” and “pizza”.
Ben’s cold actually seems to be getting a little worse. Today he woke up with a 100.6 degree fever, so that meant a day at home with Daddy and the beginning of a course of antibiotics. I’m sure that the medicine will clear things up quickly. Generally Ben has been pretty cheerful for a sick little guy, although his appetite is a little off and he is much more tired. Let’s hope for a quick turnaround!
Ben had another great speech therapy appointment today. I’ve noticed recently that Ben has become much more able and willing to imitate new words that he hears — just in the past few days, I have heard him try to say “socks” and “hot dog” right after I say them. Very exciting! This week at his appointment he did some finger painting while working on his “help”.
Ben dressed up as a gorilla for Halloween this year! It was a cute hand-me-down from our neighbors who hosted a little kids Halloween party.
Ben wasn’t really thrilled to be in the gorilla suit, he really didn’t like the hood part.
We went to the party to see all the other cuties in their costumes. Here’ a photo of Lisa and her twins, you might remember them from infancy packed up in baby carriers.
Here we have a gorilla, a pink puppy, and a bumble bee.
Me and my gorilla. Maybe Ben should have just gone as “The Face” for Halloween, it’s a costume he’s comfortable with and it’s easy to capture it on film.
Like herding kittens: Our host got all the kiddies into a group shot. I have a funny video of the horde trying to assemble, it’s pure pandemonium!
Thanks to Marcie for putting up a bunch of posts lately. I’ve been really busy and haven’t put as much time into the blog lately as I would have liked. Anyway, since our last update from the speech therapist it seems like Ben’s vocabulary development is really coming along. He has a few words that he is using consistently:
- Hiya
- Ball
- Bottle
- Open
- Uh-oh
- Up
Also, there are some other words that Ben has said a few times, including hot, help, car, and strangely enough, “Edyta”, the name of the lady who takes care of him at day care. It is really fun now trying to communicate with Ben, because you can actually try to have some sort of a conversation with him, like this:
Ben: “bo-ben” (Open)
Me: “Open what?”
Ben: (signs please)
Me: “Open what please?”
Ben: (points at door)
Me: “Oh, open DOOR please. OK!”
I think that the therapy is really helping and that Ben’s pace will get faster over the next few weeks. The trick is to just keep practicing!
A typical morning around our house consist of breakfast for Ben with Mommy. He and I have culinary adventures together in the morning. Some favorites are pancakes, oatmeal, scrambled eggs, french toast (called Frenchy! in our house), PB&J, and cereal. On Tuesday Ben got really interested in my Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal and insisted on having most of my bowl – he really likes it! Too bad it has more fiber than a 27 pound human needs in a week! I’ll have to find him some baby friendly shredded wheat. Here are a couple of videos from breakfast yesterday. My favorite part of watching Ben eat is seeing how BIG he makes his mouth to get all his food in. Very cute. These are not examples of Ben at is absolute cutest, but they are real breakfast footage. 
Gag me with a spoon! Some things just need to be tried, repeated!
In this video Ben shows us his two spooned eating technique for oats and yogurt, also his baby cough.
Sunday 10/25: To the Children’s Museum we go…
Published October 25, 2009 Uncategorized Leave a CommentRoger, Ben and I went to the West Hartford Children’s Museum today with our friend Melissa and baby Grant. The museum had some great animal exhibits and some adequate other parts and some not-so-hot features that were new and cool about 20 years ago. Overall, the museum gets a C- rating from me. Ben enjoyed himself so that may be inflating the grade a bit. The Portland Children’s Museum still gets our vote for the most awesome museum to date. Here are some videos and photos from our day.
Mommy said: Ben, lay down so I can put your diaper on.
And Ben laid down and very nicely let me put his diaper on!
I almost fell over.
Ben and I have not enjoyed diapering time, ever. Well, that’s not really fair…about 65% of the time Ben does something that makes diapering him EXTREMELY irritating. Examples include: screaming, turning over (my least favorite and most often encountered irritation), grabbing at things on the shelf, and grabbing at the diapers or his privates when there’s poop present.
Like I said, I almost fell over, this kid is super cool.
I was so impressed with Ben today. He walked out to the car when I picked him up from day care, and he also walked almost all the way to dinner and all the way back home from dinner all by himself, with very few diversions. Then when we were getting ready for bed, I told him to “go take off your clothes” and he went into his bedroom and climbed up on his changing table to get undressed. He always seems so happy when he can figure out what you are asking him to do and actually accomplish the task!
