Catching up

I'm in the process of putting the last several months' worth of pictures up on the Kodak site. I have been VERY neglectful, but this way there's lots to look at, right? I'll post the links to each slideshow here when I'm finally caught up for those of you who are suckers for pictures. In the meantime, I thought I would post a sampling of the best photos here. Enjoy! For those of you not as familiar with this site, you can click on any of the images to see them full size and download them for printing.

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Escape Artist

Sometimes I think that Benjamin is too smart for us. We've discovered that Ben's desire to get to the dogs' food and water dishes was strong enough that he figured out how to get through an almost completely closed door. I wonder if one of the dog's leashes would fit him.

Mmmmm...FOOD

Ben's been eating cereal of some sort since he was about 5 months old, but within the past few weeks he's started eating all kinds of stuff, and he's really good at it. The doctor was a little concerned over his drop in weight gain at his 6 Month appt and so prescribed a solid food feeding for him 3 times a day in addition to all of his normal nursing. Needless to say, we're doing more laundry and diaper changes these days. Benjamin seems to be following my lead in the palate department--he eats anything and everything and can't stand it if one of us is eating and he doesn't get to share. (Please forgive my camera work-- I was trying to film and feed at the same time!)

Look what I can do!

Last Friday, I put Ben down on his tummy on a spot of carpet near where the family room carpeting ends and the vinyl kitchen floor begins and went upstairs to take care of some things while Ralph watched him. A few minutes later, Ralph yelled up to me that I should come see what my son had done. He was 10 feet from where I left him, tangled up in the legs of the chairs under the kitchen table. Ralph informed me that Ben somehow made his way onto the smooth kitchen floor and discovered how to scoot himself around on his belly. I'm sure it was close to happening anyway, but something about the friction of his bare feet on the kitchen floor combined with the lack of friction of his clothes on the smooth surface made everything click and he was purposefully mobile! Ralph traced Ben's path from the living room into and around the kitchen, and under the table. He caught on quickly! The video above was taken only 1 week from his initial voyage. I thought it was bad when he was rolling himself everywhere--now I can't seem to keep up with him! He definitely likes being able to direct where he's heading, and always goes straight for the dog dishes we have both upstairs and downstairs. And so the mischief begins... Thank heaven for port-a-cribs, Exersaucers and doors that shut!