Sam I Am: June 2014

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Benjamin with the walker

I've had this toy out for him for awhile, but it he wasn't able to actually walk with it til the night I got this video. He had knelt down pushing it beforehand, and when I tried to have him show Lamoni how he would kneel-walk, he just got on his feet and was able to control it!

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Pictures from out and about

Playing on the baby playground at the mall

The collage Lamoni made his dad on Father's Day - I thought it looked really neat!

Father's Day breakfast

The braid Joy did in my hair at Faith and Jason's house

1. Benjamin pulled himself up by hanging on the clothes while Lamoni was trying some slacks on. This was seconds before the inevitable crash and cry. :-/ At least I got a picture, though! ;-)

2. I know I already have pictures of them asleep together, but it's so sweet I had to take another one. And I'll probably take many more in the future!

We may have a golfer on our hands!

He likes sitting in the cart for about ten minutes before he wants to be held. The more mobile and independent he gets, the more cuddly and touchy he is - which is weird because that's not how he used to be!

6.18

Benjamin enjoys listening to Lamoni play guitar. In fact, right now he has the side of his head up against the guitar while Lamoni's playing feeling the vibrations. He also sings along with Lamoni. I played a primary song he recognized on the computer and he sang along to that too!

I don't have a picture of him laying his head on it, but this is where he goes as soon as Lamoni starts playing.

Now that he is mobile and very fast he has a few favorite places around the house. His absolute favorite place is the bathroom, though. He crawls as fast as he can when he's free and goes to the bathtub, pulls himself up against it and knocks off each of the shampoo bottles into the tub. The louder the better. Then he cruises over to the toilet then the trashcan, which he likes to dump. The yuckiest place in the house and that's where he goes. He also can push the doors open himself if we don't click them shut. He follows me around the house and climbs up my legs. As soon as I sit down at the table to eat he's right there trying to climb onto my lap since he knows there's food. We feed whatever we're eating to him. He's not very patient about it, though! When he's swallowed his bite he immediately starts spitting or begging (making the same sound over and over in a high-pitched voice) til he gets another bite.

Everyone comments how what a happy baby he is. He's so friendly and always smiles at people. He flirts and plays with them too. The only time he's not happy is when he's hungry or tired, but then we know how to fix it. Yesterday I was without a babysitter for a half hour of a lesson. The mom and sister of this lesson just stared at him crawling around the whole time because he's so entertaining. It's distracting, though! In that half hour he managed to crawl to the front door and eat some carpet, crawl to the cords, bonk his head, grab the student's bow, knock over the stand (I caught it as it was falling), grab on my violin case straps to pull my violin down, climbed up my legs and begged til I picked him up, then tried to throw the pencils from the stand to the ground... the list goes on! Needless to say it was a lot easier after Grace got there to watch him!

This was a box of clothes I had ready to go to the garage. As soon as it gets quiet around the house I know I'm bound to find a mess.

One of the last times in his baby car seat. We got him a big boy car seat where he can sit up. He likes it a lot better except when he goes to sleep because his head just hangs forwards and bobs.

At Hinkle Family Fun Center with Grandma and Grandpa Sam, Mariah and Lena, and Courtney and her kids.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

6.11.14 part 2

Swimming with Tiffani and Yoshi and Heidi and Ruth

Lamoni's birthday lunch at Olive Garden

Shopping at the bread store down the street from us.

Friends Isaiah, Jeremiah and Luke Michael

Crawling!

Both arms out when he was supposed to be going down for his nap. And look at that smile. What a little monster! He reaches and grabs the birds on the mobile and it makes an awful clicking sound that he loves. Note the pointed finger. That's his big thing right now.

Trying to grab the camera.

Lamoni putting our garden in!

He empties out the XS cans and then plays with the box. He's been choosing that over his toy box recently.

Dancing at the library story time. They had a guest guitarist.

With the weighted blanket that Jodi made for him to help him sleep.

More pictures from our trip to Bloomfield.

With Grandma Sam and Lena

He sure makes Christopher look big!

Christopher seemed excited to finally have a boy cousin he could play with. He pushed him around the walker at top speed through the house.

He "begs" for whatever we're eating by spitting, making loud baby sounds til we give in or climbing up onto our laps and grabbing it himself. He always wins because he's so cute. :-)

This is how we keep him occupied while we get ready in the morning.

You can barely see his diaper. :-)

6.11.14

Once again I was up before 5 a.m. This time not because Benjamin's awake...but because he's sleeping! He went down officially at 10 or 11 p.m. I can't remember, but it's now 5:30 and he hasn't woken up!!! So I am extremely full of milk and can't lay down comfortably. That's 6-7 hours of sleep for him. I think it might be a record.

Determined to get to the outlet and cords. We put the stand in front of his way so he knocked it over and crawled over it.

Cousins Lena (Lamoni's sister - Mariah's daughter) and Benjamin out for a ride.

Lena tried to give him a push after I was worn out.

On a REAL ride with daddy!

This is what he has to look forward to when he's a little older - wagon rides in style with Grandpa.

Cousin Christopher (Lamoni's sister - Courtney's son), was so patient with Benjamin even though he followed him around ruining his lines of cars and knocking over his towers.