He puts the “star” in “Wistar”…
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.
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!
First, Ben’s cough has improved dramatically, so it seems that the antibiotics that he was taking for the past few days have done a good job of clearing up his pneumonia. We’ll know for sure when we get his chest rechecked in a few weeks, but all signs now point up.
Ben’s speech appointment yesterday had some exciting results. Ben was able to say “ball” fairly consistently when we were playing with a giant orange fitness ball. Also, we found out that Ben really likes to dance to music, so Melissa tried to teach him the sign for “music”. It’s a hard one, though — you have to brush your hand up and down the other arm, so I think that might take Ben a while. The rest of the session was pretty typical — some playing with toys, a lot of emphasis on “open” and “closed”.
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.
