Roll Over

I saw it this time!!!!!

Photos I didn't even know we had... about 12 weeks old

 

 

 

 

Month 3

Oh, how he's grown! Ben is now three and a half months old. Time to list some accomplishments...

~Smiling and laughing as hard as ever (not new, but still cute!)
~Ben's ability to grab is getting stronger by the day. In mid-September, he started being able to regularly pull the handle on the plastic frog on his bouncy seat to make the music play. This week, he's started to pull toys attached by velcro OFF of the arch over his bouncy seat and play mat. (This is very surprising to Ben.)
~Speaking of grabbing things... over Labor Day weekend, our little trick of putting a cloth over Ben's boy parts to prevent fountains of pee hit a snag: Ben started snatching the cloth away. Solution: We now give him a toy to hold every time we change his diaper.
~Last week he found his feet! They are apparently quite exciting. He's been hanging on to the tootsies and doing the happy baby yoga pose ever since.
~On July 12, at just one month of age, Ben rolled over from front to back. This week -- at three and a half months -- he finally repeated the performance. Well, we didn't quite see him do it, but we saw the evidence. I returned from the kitchen to find that the boy I'd put on his tummy in the crib was now on his back!
~He's becoming a pro at tummy time, looking like a little seal with bobbing head and flippers.
~He loves sitting up like a big boy... in strollers, on our laps (he likes to sit up to the table and "eat" dinner with Mom and Dad), and in the bumbo seat. His thighs hardly fit, but he loves it. Grandma Levy figured out that his name stool is the perfect companion height for the bumbo seat... so now he can sit up like a big boy and grab and play with things on his "desk" to his heart's content.

~Ben is also fitting into his SIX MONTH clothes... like this adorable outfit from the Hasses.

Mom and Grandma and Grandpa Levy have some accomplishments, too.

~I now have three weeks of half-time work under my belt.

~Grandma and Grandpa Levy have likewise survived three weeks of childcare for Ben (2 days a week). [Grandma Kate did have a minor breakdown this week when she momentarilly couldn't access the internet from our house. All should note that this is the only time she's called me at work in the three weeks...]

~Most importantly, our sweetheart, who refused to take a bottle the first two days I was at work, is now drinking like a pro!

Boston Visit

I flew for the first time! I got to see Uncle Joe and both Aunt Sophia and Aunt Jessie! I saw my grandparents (check out the video of me singing with Nanna Brown on the attached slide show). I met Bruno Brown, Nanna and Papa's dog. He was completely dejected for the first half of my visit but warmed to me -- just a little -- by the end. As I wrote about in the last entry, I met my Great Grandpa Brown, too!

Here I am with my friend Avi who was born last winter. We had such a great time playing together! And, he already knew where his feet were... this was very inspiring, just a few short weeks later, I found mine, too!

For more photos of the Boston trip (and the extra cute video of me and Nanna Brown), click here.

Great Grandpa

Hi Everyone... my mom has been very busy because she took me to Boston and then went back to work. But, she did have time to futz around with Picasa a little bit more and she learned how to create collages! So, she made a quick collage of me with my Great Grandpa, Manny Brown. Check it out here: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ZnZgaPfGjxrOFJO4d6F68A?authkey=Gv1sRgCLKr2Z3lprWQUQ&feat=directlink

Great Grandpa said that I was the highlight of the summer. Well, he was definitely the highlight of my trip to Boston. Mom and Dad have told me so much about him, but it sure was cool to finally meet him in person!

I could tell from just a few days that he has an extraordinarily large heart. He also tells great jokes, which is perfect for me becuase I love to laugh. And he has so many other interesting stories to tell, too, about World War II, about my Great Grammy, about Papa Brown and Daddy when they were younger. It was incredible to feel all that love and learn so much about my family.

~Ben