We had Benjamin's 6 month visit this week and we are so THANKFUL that we received a very good report. His respiratory infection was gone, his heart sound fantastic, and the new feeding routine has put back the weight that he lost. He's also a little 'advanced' with his coordination despite the weight issue we encountered recently. I can brag about that can't I?! If we keep up the work we've been doing with the feeding schedule, he should get right back on track weight wise in about 2 months, ideally.
Yesterday afternoon he started this shimming/crawling backwards thing. It's almost like he's crawling but he goes backwards and it's funny to watch. This morning, Carrie Underwood's video of her singing the old Randy Travis song "I Told You So" came on GAC and as soon as she started singing, Benjamin stops what he's doing and just watches her-the entire video! I guess he's got a thing for blondes!
We've made it outside the past few days and we have two new additions to our backyard, a pretty umbrella and a new grill! The grill was a gift from my parents for our anniversary since ours was destroyed last year. How did it get destroyed? Well, Memorial Day last year, our neighbors daughter and son had a little 'unsupervised' party and they have a huge trampoline. All of a sudden I hear the bang and Sadie goes ballistic and so does Lady, the dog next door. I run downstairs because I'm thinking something's hit the house. Nope, what do we see? One of the kids at the party had went a little crazy and jumped over our fence and landed directly on our grill, reducing it to a piece of charcoled junk. I will say that it was only one of those $30 grills, nothing fancy. The kid sprained his ankle pretty good and the daughter and son begged me not to tell their parents. I did, but only a few months later-they are REALLY good kids.
Anywho, back on track. So today it's raining so it looks like we won't be outside. Benjamin and I go to book babies on Thursdays at the library and we have an awesome library. He really enjoys it and Ms. Mary Lou who runs the infant book babies program.
We also bought a new bathtub for Benjamin. He was getting too big for the one we had, which I loved because it folded up and was super convenient. He loves the new one though, it's that blow up rubber duck looking one. He likes sitting in it and splashing around with the rubber ducks that we have.
Well it sounds, and smells, like it's time for a diaper change so we will have to go for now. Enjoy the pictures and as always, leave a comment if you can!
Oh! If any of you gals want a good workout, check out Shimmy on FitTV. It's this belly dancing stuff and it is a serious work out. I of course look like an albino chicken trying to belly dance but who sees me doing it beside Benjamin and Sadie....they don't care!
