Busy Bee

For those of you who haven't heard...I will recount our last Saturday's activities. Hubby and I needed to go to the city to look at stuff for our house. The previous three days Benjamin had gotten up at 5:30 with gas, played for 30 mins, then slept from 6-8:30/9ish. So we thought we could get up at 5:30, get ready, then drive while Benjamin slept in the car. Ha! Benjamin did not sleep well Friday night but still woke up at 5:30. Hubby and I got ready while Benjamin played, and then we loaded up the car. Benjamin fussed, and fussed, and screamed, and turned red.....so after 30 min of crying, we pulled over, got him calmed down, back in the carseat....and the screaming begins again. So we decided to nix the trip and head home. As soon as we got back to Chillville, Benjamin fell asleep. So we turned around and headed to the city. Thankfully he slept the entire way to our destination, and traveled pretty well the rest of the day. But we learned our lesson, just sleep in, and don't try to plan for Benjamin to sleep in the car....it probably won't happen.


What has Benjamin been up to?

• Well, reading books of course!

• Getting spoiled by his G-ma

• Yesterday Benjamin got his second round of shots. No fun. Thankfully the two that he got, they gave them to him simultaneously, he screamed for a few seconds, and was fine. Oh, and he weighed in at 12 lbs 7 oz (with clothes and diaper)
• He is learning to horde toys

• Benjamin is becoming quite the busy bee, and he certainly will let us know if he is bored!

• Benjamin rolled over from his back to his front one time on Wednesday. It was probably a fluke b/c I think he was "searching" for food, but it counts anyways : )
• He has started gnawing on his hands, and if I put something in front of him will grab it, and bring it to his mouth to chew on/slobber on. time for some mouth-friendly toys! (i'm trying to stay away from plastics. you wouldn't think I was crazy if you checked all the recalls on plastic MIC(made in china) products).

And for those of you that are interested, we are still cloth diapering and loving it. We have yet to have a poo explosion and have just had a few pee leaks (due to laundry or user error). My wonderful neighbor lets us use her line to dry the diapers, which is perfect b/c it saves energy and bleaches out the diapers (ever have a nasty stain, sun it out!)