6 Months

Benson is 6 months old today!!! He is such a fun baby! He amazes me daily with all that he's learned and continues to learn. We don't go to the Dr. until Tuesday so I'll have to update his stats then but here's a list of 6 month milestones...

-loves to jump in lap or on exercise ball
-eats green beans, squash, carrots, peas, frozen grapes and pears
-is a tease
-is very ticklish
-laughs easily
-says "baa, baa, blah, blah, daa, daa" (but we're pretty sure daa doesn't refer to Anthony yet)
-when on his stomach, goes up on knees and rocks back and forth
-has one tooth, bottom right
-grabs for everything
-scoots all over on his back
-loves to drink out of a water bottle
-sleeps 8-10 hours a night (usually straight but sometimes with one feeding)
-loves to be sung to
-loves "This little piggy...," "Knock on the door," and "Patty cake"

Playing

He loves bath time!!

Eating

Playing

We can't believe how much our lives have changed in a year! Last year at this time we would never have believed we'd have a baby in a year! We still thank Heavenly Father every day for our Bens!!

Happy Birthday

Today Anthony turns 28! Wow, he's old.

We've been celebrating for the past 5 days! We've decided our new family tradition will be to have a week-long celebration for everyone's bday. I think it's a fabulous idea. He's gotten a present from Benson and me everyday. A few of the gifts have been a puzzle, lego figure, farkle game, string trimmer, garden hose, chocolate milk, etc. It's been fun to see his excitement opening the gifts everyday after work. Then on the final day, the birthday, the person gets to pick what's for dinner and then cake and ice cream. Tonight we're having take-out from PF Chang's and Banana Cream Pie, yummy!

I love birthdays and hope Anth has the best one yet!!!

Visitors

My sister and her family had Spring Break the end of March so decided to come where it's warm, Corpus! (only 12 hrs away) We had so much fun!! My bro-in-law, nieces and nephews got to meet Benson. We fed the ducks, went to the beach, museum, park, flew kites, ate yummy food and just sat up late talking/laughing! A perfect vacation!!! Thanks so much for coming Bills family!!! Now it's our turn to come up!!!

Feeding the ducks, or seagulls

Men at the Museum

Anth reading to the kids

Issac, Benson, Sadie and Phebe

At Joe's celebrating Phebe and Anth's bdays

Benson ready for the beach

Silas at the beach

Flying kites at the park

Anthony's grandmother passed away about a week ago. It was sudden but she lived a wonderful life. We could only afford for him to go to Utah so Benson and I got to stay home. I called my friend Mandy and told her to come down. She said she'd look into it but it was pretty late notice. A day later she called me and said she was coming! She did the whole priceline thing, name your own price and it was accepted! We had a blast!! It was so fun to catch up and for her to see my life down here with Benson. I went up to San Antonio to pick her up so we did the River Walk and the Alamo (got attacked by a vulture, pretty sure it was). We went to the beach, did some shopping, watched conference, and ate yummy food. We're redoing some of our house (more on that later), and so we went to Lowes and she helped with some decorating decisions (thank goodness her mom does framing!) . It was so nice having someone here while Anth was away. Thanks for coming down Mandy!! We can't wait for you to come back!!!

At the Alamo

At the beach

Mandy and Benson