CRAWLING!!! (sort of)

Ben is up and rocking on all fours. He gets his feet up and then hops forward in a sort of crawl/squirm. I would think in the next couple weeks he will be a pro! Thus begins a whole new phase...parenting the mobile child, our number one goal now being getting him safetly through the next half of his first year!

Just a cute Picture...

MMMM Applesauce

Our new food this week is apple. Ben loves his steamed, pureed, organic applesauce! I mix kiddie acidopholis and fish oil in it as well and he still doesn't seem to mind. According to the "books" you should feed the baby all the vegetables first so they get used to them before fruit which they are more likely to like. I am not following this obviously, I think that is silly. He will like what he likes and so far he is 2 for 2 !!

This is NOT Spring!

We recieved an early Easter gift yesturday... 30 inches of white, fluffy, miserable snow! Jon's car is almost totally burried and fortunatly we have neighbours and parents who are generous with their snow blowers or we wouldn't be out of our driveway until next week! This is the most snow we have had in southern ontario since 1938. If we get 17 more centemeters this year we will have the all time record. I would prefer if we let those who suffered in 1938 retain their record!

Take us to Florida Daddy!

Ben and I are staging our own protest against the winter that won't end. It included getting dressed in summer clothes and trying to persuade Daddy to take us to the airport!!!

Play Group

Ben loves to go to the playgroup. We go every morning because my daycare kids love it and I would go nuts in the house all day with 3 one year olds! Until a couple months ago Ben would sleep the whole time we were there. Now he lights up as soon as we pull into the parking lot and grins when "Ms. Allison" comes to get him. The Ontario Early Years program was started about 5 years ago in order to suport early learning. Our facility has been converted from an elementry school. It has a classroom set up for each age group from newborn (Ben has been going since he was 10 days old!) to age six. During the daily two hour preschool program the children have craft (starting at age one obviously), free play, snack and circle time. Ben's room has lots of bubbles and music. He loves it! I ususally stay and play with Ben for the first half hour or so and feed him. I can then go to a parent chat meeting, a guest speaker, coffee club or eat breakfast in the kitchen. All the teachers are ECE trained and are wonderful! I can watch Ben from the hallway from one way windows. I can see him but he can't see me.

The Happiest Baby on the Block

Ben is just about the happiest baby I have ever met. How lucky I am then to live with him! It takes absolutly no effort at all to have this kid lauphing so hard he can't breath. He will laugh at a blank wall and has a smile for anyone who looks at him.

I took him to a Dr. appt today (our new hobby it seems lately!) and when he was finished his appt The Dr. asked if I wanted to give him to his secretaries while I had my appt afterwards. I came out to see Ben in the middle of a crowd of people in the waiting room laughing hysterically as everyone was doing their best to keep him going. These complete strangers to myself and each other were acting like fools trying to make this chubby cheeked little boy let out another belly lauph. The little flirt was also kissing the secretary who was holding him to the consistant reponse of an "AWWWWWWWWW" in unison. I was on the other end the most UNPOPULAR person in the room when I took him back and put him in his carseat, when of course he burst into loud sobs with fat tears as his fanclub glared at me!