Ben

Ben is starting to use his hands more everyday. He tries to grab at toys and puts them in his mouth. He loves his brothers and smiles and moves his whole body in happiness when they come into the room to talk with him. Last night he slept from 7 to 7 and only woke up one time! What a treat for me!

My little scientist

Sam has been into everything lately. He's painted the windows with yogurt and squirted glue down the front of the cabinets this past week.

So proud of his mess!

Ben is 3 months....chatting and smiling all of the time!

We just spent a week at my parent's cabin.....I had to include this picture of Sam peeking through the snow fort we built. We had a great time!

Ben is full of smiles these days. He also loves to chat....he has a great voice and already is using it loudly. I think he knows he needs to in order to be heard. We went for a walk today to enjoy the break from cold. Ben loves to look around at the trees and sky. Charlie rode his bike around the block and Sam tried out his new "bike". It was great to be outside again!

Watch Ben Grow....and grow!

Ben is starting to coo and "play" with toys. He can swat at things and loves to look at toys. The boys fight over who can make him smile and put toys in front of him....of course this makes Ben cry because they are yelling in his face at each other. That's brotherly love!

Ben's Baptism

Ben was baptized this morning. It was a wonderful service! He smiled up at our new pastor while he was being baptized.

"Mom, take a picture." Charlie wants every moment with Ben photographed these days.

We are in the middle of an artic freeze. The high today and Thursday is suppose to be 0! Charlie and Sam have been busy creating buildings downstairs out of the canned food we store down there. They've also been busy doing Lite-Brite. I'm glad they are finding things to do that don't require us to get in the car and freeze.

Ben is 2 months old

Ben is 2 months old already. We went to the doctor on Friday and he is doing great. He definitely has nursing down....he's 16 pounds 5 oz already! He was 24 inches already as well. No wonder he is wearing 6-12 month sized clothing most of the time already!

He was born at about 20 inches and just under 8 pounds so the growing genes are growing strong. He must know he needs to pack on the pounds for future wrestling matches with his older brothers.

Charlie was 14 pounds 1 oz and 23 1/2 inches at 2 months and Sam was 14 pounds 3 oz and 22 1/4 inches!

The chubby cheek smile...we love to see these.

The half smile shows up all of the time.