Ben Update

Pooped out after all his hammering...


Trying to mail himself to Granma...

What's new with Ben:
** The most exciting new thing is he got his first tooth! I noticed it on the 9th of June. It is the bottom left middle tooth. I had suspected he'd be getting a tooth soon because his sleeping had been off and he'd had a few pretty fussy days which is unlike him.
** He has started pulling himself up occasionally on things like my shirt when he's sitting next to me or on someone's hands.
** He is eating a ton of solid foods now and is SO into it! He gets all excited and starts flapping his arms when I bring the food to the table. I am having a lot of fun making his food and finding new things for him to eat. His newest food is Quinoa which I gave him this morning - he just gobbled it right up!
** He won't have his next checkup until 9 months but I weighed him the other day and he is about 21 lbs give or take a few ounces.
** I have started putting him on his tummy a lot more in the last couple weeks and today he actually tried to pull his legs up under him to move forward.
** He loves to sit on the floor and play with his toys and is doing really with lunging forward and to the side to get things and manages not to topple over the majority of the time.
** He also loves to talk and does it quite loudly sometimes. It's super cute but not as cute when it's 5am and I really just want him to go back to sleep! Yesterday in the grocery store he was talking or yelling up a storm and everyone who went by us was laughing...
** He is very attached to me and is developing strange anxiety. He still smiles at everyone unless I hand him off and try to walk away.

That's about it for now from the world of Ben! :)