Headed north

Hi family and friends.
We are headed up North for vacation so I"ll post a few pictures before we leave.
He loves making baskets with his basketball hoop, playing in the dirt, and being an all around wonderful little boy. He is jabbering all the time, which is adorable to listen to.

Benjamin "organizing" his new clothes"

They'll stone you when you're at the breakfast table...

they'll stone you when you are young and able.....everybody must get stoned!
- Bob Dylan
My house totally got stoned today. (Ok, ok, I do know the original intent of this song)
Still about 8 more columns and 55% of the stone wall to go, but YIPPEE the house is nearing completion!

14 Months

1 month later, and here we are. A lot has changed in the Cady Household.
For starters, Benjamin is now a certified STTNer ....that is "sleep through the night"er! Yippee. I would like to thank Dr. Ferber. I can't say that we followed it to a "T", but I did read the whole book before starting (a must) , and them implemented changes slowly. Benjamin goes to sleep at 8pm with 5 mins or less of crying most nights (tonight is not one of those nights, but alas), and sleeps until 5:30ish. He then eats and gets up at 7-7:30am. He has been getting two more teeth, one on top and one of bottom, so he has awakened at 2ish a few nights. We just give him some acetaminophen (Tylenol, folks) and he goes back to sleep.

As noted above, he has two more teeth, which brings the total up to 8. Thank goodness he loves to brush his teeth!

He finally had his 1 year check-up last week. Benjamin weighs in at a whopping 19lb 11 oz (5%), and is 29 and 1/4 inches tall (25%). While B is a little shrimp, the doctor assured me that he wrote "good growth" in his chart. I hear that hubby was a rather skinny baby. This visit was the first visit I had driven Benjamin to KC by myself. B was an excellent traveler, and even put up with me doing a little shopping at the Legends. I learned to keep a large stash of toys in the front seat to throw back at him to keep him entertained, and to also have lots of little containers of graham crackers for him to munch on.

Benjamin got a bag of clothes from his older cousin Carson, who is potty training, so he can't use his onesie anymore. At the bottom of the bag, some adorable frog galoshes that Carson had outgrown. They are Benjamin's size, so I put them on Benjamin. Let just say...he loves them!


Benjamin had a play-date with a little girl who is 2 months older. They don't quite get the "playing together" thing.


Benjamin and Grandpa



Benjamin riding an elephant at the Omaha Zoo

1 year 1 month

Benjamin officially slept through the night for the first time. Amen, praise the Lord.

Benjamin has been putting on weight lately. We have to wait until Aug 11th to get weighed (1 yr pedi appt), but he is certainly more chunky. He loves cheese, oranges, bagels and cream cheese, pears, peaches, carrots, green beans, and yogurt. He seems to really like cows milk, and I admit, no longer pumping at work is wonderful!
Benjamin loves turning the lights on and then pointing and jabbering something that I'm sure means "lights on".
Most of all, he loves being outside and playing with the hose.






5/20/2010

Now that my little man is all grown up

We've been cooking up a storm



Reading my favorite book every day (Peekaboo Baby)




Playing in the sink when it is too raining to play outside





Playing on my new slide mommy and daddy got me for my 1 year birthday!



And working on staying adorable (hard work)

Somebody turned 1!

Fun week

We've been busy around the Cady household. We finally decided that the 30-40 min of rocking, dancing, jumping around to get Benjamin to sleep needed to stop. It is time for him to learn to fall asleep on his own. We are on Day 4 of "Ferberizing"...sleep training. Each night we put him down awake, and check in on him in increasing intervals 3/5/7/10mins, and stick with 10 min thereafter and the time increases each night. While he is sleeping better once he falls asleep, but I am not currently sure that it will work, but I'll try a little longer. Most kids learn to just fall asleep earlier and earlier...he hasn't, it takes about 45 min each night. (and it breaks my heart to hear him cry). Other than that, Benjamin has taken off. My goodness can that boy walk, and almost run. He loves picking up the soccer ball, walking with it, dropping it and kicking it..and repeating. Tonight, we took our first trip to the pool. Benjamin had a great time even though the water was chilly from the recent rain.

I love shaking thing around.

AND..Benjamin has 5 teeth! (another on the bottom)