Noises

Benjamin has been making the cutest baby noises. After he's fed and pooped and therefore in a good mood he will play with us and copy sounds we're making (or maybe we copy him...). In any case, it's like we're having a conversation with him and he'll go back and forth a long time! He also enjoys playing with certain noise-making toys with us and having books read to him. He's so attentive to everything.

We had his baby appointment yesterday. He now weighs 12 lbs at 5 weeks! He is also 23 inches long. His weight is in the 80th percentile and height in the 75th percentile! He is getting ginormous.

Bringing him places is like being with a celebrity. Everyone wants to look at him and he is such a ham that he eats it all up. He's currently on Lamoni's lap next to me just staring at me. Nothing breaks his stares. :-)

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He reminds us of a hedgehog when he's in the Moby. After he's been overstimulated by looking around he lays his head down on my chest and falls right asleep. 

Our first family picture. The cute suit outfit is from Debra Spencer.

We took Benjamin to Lamoni's Child Development class this morning. The teacher just ate him up. She held him and brought him to every student in the classroom while commenting on how far ahead he is developmentally (I'm sure being 2 weeks late has something to do with this...). He is such a ham! He just smiled, stared and made cooing sounds the whole time. He recently started playing a game with us where we stick our tongues out at each other and he played it with her! She commented on what a quiet peaceful baby he is and that we must have a very calm home. Little did she know that as soon as I got to the car with him he was back to his normal loud self now that he didn't have an audience! It helped that the classroom has florescent lights. He loves those.

His great bed head. :-)

Baby Blessing

Benjamin was blessed on November 3rd at the Montano chapel. Lots of family came to visit. Deruchette flew down from Salt Lake City and stayed a few days with us, Courtney drove from Utah with her three kids; Mel and Melinda, Sybrina, Jordan and Samantha, Grandma and Grandpa Bear all came from Bloomfield, as well as family in the area who came by. Lamoni's boss and her family even came!
Lamoni gave the blessing and in the blessing circle were: Mike Lanctot, Jacob Lanctot, Bishop Hemmert, Mel Sam, Kenneth Rayburn, Jerold Cole, Jarrett Decker and Jason Sam.
I will post a copy of the blessing as soon as I have it!
I'm sad that we didn't get a family picture with the three of us that day. It was just so crazy with so many people! We had a luncheon at our house afterwards and Lamoni and I counted 31 people who were here! Luckily a few people did get pictures of Benjamin so at least we have him on his blessing day.

Here's a picture with Jared in the background! Aunt Jacqueline made the beautiful baby blanket.

 This was actually the week after Benjamin was born at church.

Not the day of his blessing - 1st Sunday at church 1 week old. I taught my primary class that day too. :-)
 

1. Same thing - 1 week old at church.

2. Day of the baby blessing - 3 weeks old with Grandpa Mel

Baby Showers

I had two baby showers the last two weeks! One of them was put on by my friend, Crystal Boyack and former teacher, Susan Kempter. That was for the music crowd. The other one was put on by Charity and a friend from church, Lindsey Hemmert. That was at the church building and had church friends and students. I feel baby showered out because when I was still working at the Catholic school they threw me a surprise shower there, then Lamoni's work threw me a surprise shower a month before Benjamin came, and now I had these two!

I'll upload pictures of the music one later as I need to get the pictures off of my phone still.

"Antique"

This blue jacket and hat are a special story. Grammy had sent us a package with some clothes for Benjamin. In it were these:

I thought she had made them for us, but it turns out that they were made for Daddy when he was a baby! They are in such pristine condition they look brand new. When I sent a picture of them to Faith (we're going to take a picture with Jared in them too) she wrote back, "Wow, they're like antique!" I was only too happy to share that quote with Daddy at Sunday dinner. :-) They are adorable, though. We probably won't have the boys wear them too much so they stay nice and can pass them on another generation!

Just Hanging Out

One of the few times that he was happy in the swing                   My turn to bathe him.  

                   so we had to document it!                             

He likes to lay on his stomach - especially on Lamoni's back!

  Daddy burping during Joy's piano lesson.    Aunt Deruchette flew in for the baby blessing and held                                                                 and sang to him while I got a lot done around the house!

                             We went to visit Lamoni at work during his lunch break last Friday.                             The cute outfit and matching blanket are from Aunt Kathy!

Halloween

At our ward's trunk or treat. The theme for our ward was scripture characters so we were King and Queen Lamoni and King Benjamin from the Book of Mormon. :-) He slept through the whole thing except for at the end he exploded his diaper and then kept his eyes open for the picture.

This picture is bad quality, but it's the only picture I have from Faith and Jason's trunk or treat that we went to in Rio Rancho. Here he is a bear, but you can't tell because it's humongous on him. At both locations we took Benjamin around with his little bag and collected the spoils for ourselves! We got some funny looks but I assured them Benjamin would get the candy from me.

2 Week Baby Appointment

With midwife, Kelly Camden

Even though he asks like a starving orphan all the time, he gained 12 ounces since his 1 week appointment! At his one week appointment he was already back up to his birth weight - 9 lbs

He also grew from 20 inches at birth to 22 inches in 2 weeks!! He wears 3 month clothes now.