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Saturday – November 14, 2009: Cracker

Benjamin said “cracker” today. It sounds a little like “quacker,” with the less than hard /k/ sound at the beginning. It’s the most precious word he’s said so far. It’s super cute. I’ll try to get a video of it tomorrow. I’m sure he’ll be eating more crackers tomorrow, that’s about all he ate today. He had about a sleeve and a half of graham crackers so far today. There’s still more eating time to come, so we’ll see if he’ll finish the second sleeve. I might have to join him in the cracker fest as I have caught the same ickies that he had. Ugh.

My mom spent Wednesday through Friday taking care of our sick Ben so Roger and I could work. I think they both had a great time together, some quality bonding time for sure. Mom even reports that Ben said “Grandma” to her on many occasions. Awesome work B!

Let’s see some cute pictures instead of dwelling on the pestilence that has descended upon our household.

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The face gets a new hat from GrandMary.

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It takes some pretty good timing to find a pile of leaves around campus. The grounds crew typically vacuumes them up as their falling from the sky. So this pile was a special treat for Ben. He climbed in it and burried himself looking super cute the whole time.

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Wed 11/11: Amateur video editing

I’m taking a Multimedia class at the school I work at. We’ve learned to make virtual realities in the early part of the class. Now we’re starting movie editing. Because I missed class yesterday I decided to splice together a video to practice. The clips are from our visit to the Children’s Museum on Sunday. Watch out for the music, it’s wacky.

Sun 11/1: Happy Halloween!

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.

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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.

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Here we have a gorilla, a pink puppy, and a bumble bee.

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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.

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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!

Thursday 10/29 – Breakfast with Ben

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…

Roger, 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.

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Sunday Morning with Benjamin

Just amazing!

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.

Videos

I finally got YouTube to cooperate with my new Mac so we’re back to being able to post videos! Yippy! I’ll have more posted in the future, but for now sleep.

Dancing!

Splashes in the sink

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