Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Ben's first theater movie
Grammy Pat came for a nice weekend visit and babysat Oliver while Tim and I took Ben to his first movie. We told him we were going to see a movie on a really big TV and he seemed excited. We saw "Up" at a bargain matinee. Ben was mesmerized the whole time and didn't even want to share my popcorn, but he said he wanted to go home several times. We think he just got a little homesick during the sad and not-so-exciting parts of the movie. Afterwards he said it was "fun" but he also said he didn't want to go see a movie on a really big TV. So who knows whether he really liked it or not. During the movie he was really worried about the ostrich ("osterd") getting home. We moved when someone came to sit right in front of Ben, so I didn't get to sit next to him, and I missed out on the intense whispered conversations Tim and Ben were having (I guess about the ostrich, which wasn't an ostrich.)
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Other random updates
So much to catch up on!
Oma and Opa sent a Halloween box with some chocolate marshmallows in it. I think I already said that Ben can make one marshmallow last all day. He licks the top over and over until it gets shorter and shorter. He puts it on his dresser at night and picks it up in the morning. He called the chocolate ones "socket smushmallows."
Every evening when Ben has been at Wee Creekers, his language has improved. On Wed and Thur nights, he speaks in sentences! We probably undo all the progress they make with him on Wed/Thur during the rest of the week. Words he still says funny:
Penguin = pengoon
favorite = fwavite
broke = bloke
I know there is more, but can't remember them...
Oliver is 6 months old! And he has two little bottom teeth! And he weighs 19 lbs 10 oz! (down to the 83 percentile now) And he has started solids, though he doesn't seem to like them much. He definitely looks at our food longingly, so perhaps he is disappointed that he gets mush while we get pizza, etc. We made some delightful pureed sweet potatoes with the lovely baby food maker Aunt Wende gave to Oliver.
Oliver got FOUR shots at his 6-month doctor appointment this week. And he cried for less than 10 seconds! I'm sure he has been toughened by Ben. Ben is still always very sweet to his "Yiv" but he "plays" a little rough. We try not to leave them alone together. I did for a few minutes the other morning and when I came back in the room Ben was straddled on top of Oliver, sitting on his stomach with all his weight and yelling and what was Oliver doing? Smiling up at him! Ben can make Oliver laugh just by laughing.
Oliver went with me to a library conference in California and was great company. In the rental car I heard a new catchy popular song enough times to really start to like it (a few more times and I would be tired of it). Oliver had no opinion of it, but Tim didn't like it when I played it for him back at home. Then it came on the radio with Ben in the car and I turned it up loud. Ben yelled "Bee not yike this song!" I guess I am alone in my musical tastes. :-(
Ben has his own version of the first four letters of the alphabet. When I try to tell him it is A B C D, he says "No, ACDB!" But he says it really fast so it sounds like "Aysidibee."
We finally talked Ben into sledding after last week's snowstorm. He laughed and laughed and said things like "That went fun!" "That was fwazy!" (crazy) "That was funner!" When Tim and Ben came in from the snow, Tim made some "all natural" hot chocolate that just did not taste good. Ben took one sip and said "Good!" and then didn't drink any more. After a while, he said "All done." Tim thought he was being very polite.
I'll try to post more often!
Oma and Opa sent a Halloween box with some chocolate marshmallows in it. I think I already said that Ben can make one marshmallow last all day. He licks the top over and over until it gets shorter and shorter. He puts it on his dresser at night and picks it up in the morning. He called the chocolate ones "socket smushmallows."
Every evening when Ben has been at Wee Creekers, his language has improved. On Wed and Thur nights, he speaks in sentences! We probably undo all the progress they make with him on Wed/Thur during the rest of the week. Words he still says funny:
Penguin = pengoon
favorite = fwavite
broke = bloke
I know there is more, but can't remember them...
This morning Ben didn't want to go to Wee Creekers because he had an owie on his thumb. I put a bandaid on his (invisible) owie and by the time we got there his "owie was all better" and the bandaid had to come off.
Ben's favorite thing to say this past week is "I'm sick!" and "I'm hurt!" I guess because we say it to him when he has a cold. If we ask him where he is hurt, he'll say his leg (or something else) is "bloken." Anytime he hurts himself falling or bumping, etc. he wants the ice pack. He holds it on for a few seconds and then declares everything better.Oliver is 6 months old! And he has two little bottom teeth! And he weighs 19 lbs 10 oz! (down to the 83 percentile now) And he has started solids, though he doesn't seem to like them much. He definitely looks at our food longingly, so perhaps he is disappointed that he gets mush while we get pizza, etc. We made some delightful pureed sweet potatoes with the lovely baby food maker Aunt Wende gave to Oliver.
Oliver got FOUR shots at his 6-month doctor appointment this week. And he cried for less than 10 seconds! I'm sure he has been toughened by Ben. Ben is still always very sweet to his "Yiv" but he "plays" a little rough. We try not to leave them alone together. I did for a few minutes the other morning and when I came back in the room Ben was straddled on top of Oliver, sitting on his stomach with all his weight and yelling and what was Oliver doing? Smiling up at him! Ben can make Oliver laugh just by laughing.
Oliver went with me to a library conference in California and was great company. In the rental car I heard a new catchy popular song enough times to really start to like it (a few more times and I would be tired of it). Oliver had no opinion of it, but Tim didn't like it when I played it for him back at home. Then it came on the radio with Ben in the car and I turned it up loud. Ben yelled "Bee not yike this song!" I guess I am alone in my musical tastes. :-(
Ben has his own version of the first four letters of the alphabet. When I try to tell him it is A B C D, he says "No, ACDB!" But he says it really fast so it sounds like "Aysidibee."
We finally talked Ben into sledding after last week's snowstorm. He laughed and laughed and said things like "That went fun!" "That was fwazy!" (crazy) "That was funner!" When Tim and Ben came in from the snow, Tim made some "all natural" hot chocolate that just did not taste good. Ben took one sip and said "Good!" and then didn't drink any more. After a while, he said "All done." Tim thought he was being very polite.
I'll try to post more often!
Halloween 2009
We had our first taste of "mountain trick or treating" - only one neighborhood in the canyon does trick or treating and they get all organized and advertise. The advertising said "costumes = candy" so we all dressed up. Oliver was an ice cream cone (a hand-me-down from Samantha), Ben was his glorious dinosaur/dragon (from Aunt Marilyn and Aunt Karen), Tim was Van Gogh and I was Starry Night. Tim and I didn't take bags though - it didn't seem right, as much as I wanted candy! Ben is still having trouble with "tr" so he said "Frick or Freat!"
The houses in that neighborhood are still too far apart to walk between, so it was a bit of a traffic jam with families getting in and out of cars and slipping on the ice in driveways (we had a big snowstorm on Wed/Thur) and . Oliver got fed up after the first house (the wind was taking his breath away constantly) and then Ben got fed up after about 5 houses and begged to go home. So we went home with a pathetically small amount of candy, in my opinion. Ben was quite happy with his loot, however. He took one tiny bite of a couple of the chocolates and gave them to us. He loved the lollipop, a hard candy, and the Smarties. I told him Smarties were my favorite and he kept giving them to me, saying "Your fwavite!" What a sweet sharer.
The houses in that neighborhood are still too far apart to walk between, so it was a bit of a traffic jam with families getting in and out of cars and slipping on the ice in driveways (we had a big snowstorm on Wed/Thur) and . Oliver got fed up after the first house (the wind was taking his breath away constantly) and then Ben got fed up after about 5 houses and begged to go home. So we went home with a pathetically small amount of candy, in my opinion. Ben was quite happy with his loot, however. He took one tiny bite of a couple of the chocolates and gave them to us. He loved the lollipop, a hard candy, and the Smarties. I told him Smarties were my favorite and he kept giving them to me, saying "Your fwavite!" What a sweet sharer.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
October
Ben has started saying "Sure?" As in, "Daddy roll up yo-yo. Sure?" I can't tell if he got it from our saying "Sure" after he asks us for something, or our asking him if he is sure he wants something. It's cute, either way.
He also says "I do it for you" quite often.
This morning Ben said, "Juice makes me happy." I asked what else made him happy and he said Thomas (the train) and Lightning (the car).
One morning I promised to bring Ben some new books from the library and I forgot. Of course that was the day he remembered. When I got home, he asked me "New books?" and looked sad when I told him I forgot.
Last night he wanted to eat Oliver's baby food and we told him he couldn't because he was not a baby. He said Oliver was not a baby either. He said "Yiv! Not Yivvy!"
I'm forgetting everything else I was going to report. :-(
He also says "I do it for you" quite often.
This morning Ben said, "Juice makes me happy." I asked what else made him happy and he said Thomas (the train) and Lightning (the car).
One morning I promised to bring Ben some new books from the library and I forgot. Of course that was the day he remembered. When I got home, he asked me "New books?" and looked sad when I told him I forgot.
Last night he wanted to eat Oliver's baby food and we told him he couldn't because he was not a baby. He said Oliver was not a baby either. He said "Yiv! Not Yivvy!"
I'm forgetting everything else I was going to report. :-(
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Two more things
Tim said he laid down with Ben for a nap last week and Ben said "Benny safe. Snuggle Daddy."
Ben loves to find letters everywhere and point them out. He learns more each day, but B and W have been his favorites for a long time. He says W so cute - kind of like "dubbazoo." I love it!
Ben loves to find letters everywhere and point them out. He learns more each day, but B and W have been his favorites for a long time. He says W so cute - kind of like "dubbazoo." I love it!
Random updates
I'm home sick today (not sure it is the flu) and right now Ben and Oliver are wrestling and Oliver is actually laughing as Ben STEPS ON HIS FACE, whips him from his back to "tummy time" and back to his back, and completely squishes him. And Ben just pulled a hair out of Oliver's mouth and told me about it.
This morning when I came downstairs Ben said "Hi Mom! Come sit me!" in the sweetest voice. I asked him why he was crying in the middle of the night, did he have nightmares? and he said "I have big ears." I said "I said nightmares not big ears," and he said, "Mommy have night ears too" and pointed at my ears. Then in a bit he said "I yuv you too Mommy."
He is using I a lot more than Benny now. Last night he said "I don't know" and "I'm full."
Last night I sat down in the living room and realized I needed a spoon and Ben ran from the living room into the kitchen, where Tim was. Tim asked what Ben needed and Ben didn't respond - just ran to the silverware drawer, opened it, grabbed a spoon (without being able to see), and ran back to me. Tim laughed and came to tell me Ben was so purposeful.
Ben is also very proud that he can get his own marshmallows out of the fridge. He calls them "smushmellows." He makes one marshmallow last 30 minutes. This morning he got one (not the best breakfast food), and he said "Smushmellow tastes smushy."
Oliver can sit up with just a little support and we started solids a couple of night ago. We just tried some applesauce - which isn't the correct thing to start with, but he seems so tough - and he loved it. He grabs at our food and if you give him an apple or a peach he sucks and sucks and gnaws. I think I will get out the baby food steamer/maker and do a sweet potato for him. He's starting to cry a little when you take something away from him. But he still smiles and smiles!
Ben has started motioning with his hand in the funniest way. He uses it to point and direct us and it's really graceful and solemn. We need to try to get it on video.
This morning when I came downstairs Ben said "Hi Mom! Come sit me!" in the sweetest voice. I asked him why he was crying in the middle of the night, did he have nightmares? and he said "I have big ears." I said "I said nightmares not big ears," and he said, "Mommy have night ears too" and pointed at my ears. Then in a bit he said "I yuv you too Mommy."
He is using I a lot more than Benny now. Last night he said "I don't know" and "I'm full."
Last night I sat down in the living room and realized I needed a spoon and Ben ran from the living room into the kitchen, where Tim was. Tim asked what Ben needed and Ben didn't respond - just ran to the silverware drawer, opened it, grabbed a spoon (without being able to see), and ran back to me. Tim laughed and came to tell me Ben was so purposeful.
Ben is also very proud that he can get his own marshmallows out of the fridge. He calls them "smushmellows." He makes one marshmallow last 30 minutes. This morning he got one (not the best breakfast food), and he said "Smushmellow tastes smushy."
Oliver can sit up with just a little support and we started solids a couple of night ago. We just tried some applesauce - which isn't the correct thing to start with, but he seems so tough - and he loved it. He grabs at our food and if you give him an apple or a peach he sucks and sucks and gnaws. I think I will get out the baby food steamer/maker and do a sweet potato for him. He's starting to cry a little when you take something away from him. But he still smiles and smiles!
Ben has started motioning with his hand in the funniest way. He uses it to point and direct us and it's really graceful and solemn. We need to try to get it on video.
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