New Experiences

I wanted to write before Ben is five months old because he has had so many new experiences lately. Since his four month old update he has been to his first birthday party for Ava Wynn's first birthday. He enjoyed seeing the other kids, but wasn't too interested in watching Ava enjoy her cake. We went to a trial swim lesson. Mom and Ben enjoyed some water play together and Mom learned some ways to hold and play with Ben in the water. We signed up for a six week course that starts at the end of March. Two of our friends, Ella Smith and Ben Hampton, are taking lessons with us. Ben is pretty cute in his swim trunks. We will get pictures when his lessons start, because Mom forgot to take the camera last time. Dad was excited for Ben's first Superbowl. We watched with some friends from church, but I think that Ben slept through most of it. We celebrated Grandpa Larry's birthday this month when the McCulloughs came in town for Ben's baby dedication at church. The dedication was very sweet and special. Uncle Jeff and the grandparents all got to attend. We prayed over Ben and he received his baby bible with I think 8 other babies. Ben also attended his first bible class and had a great time. He was all smiles! Ben received valentines from a couple classmates and from a couple teachers at school last week. Mom made him a monkey valentine and we gave him a toy camera so he could terrorize Mom with the flash just as much as Mom terrorizes Ben. This weekend we had a playdate with our friend Owen from church. Owen tried to teach Ben to roll to his side, but I am not sure it worked. We will just have to have more playdates to work on it. :) We also started cereal this weekend. The first try was okay. He liked it but had trouble understanding how to keep it in his mouth. The second round was a little better and with practice more and more should actually be consumed. We will stick with cereal for now and probably won't introduce vegetables for another month or so. We will just see how this goes. Ben is just teaching us something new each day. We will try for another update when he turns five months soon. It seems like there is always something new for Mom to gush about. :)