4th and 4th

Fran tagged me on the 4th and 4th game. The way this works is to 1. open your picture folder 2. go to the 4th folder, and 3. open the 4th picture and explain what is going on in this picture and why it is important to you.

I just copied a bunch of pictures to a disk and deleted them from my computer so the only pics in my fourth folder (titled "Ben") are the ones of John and Ben that I posted just the other night. The fourth pic is the the one where Ben is leaned over laughing. I won't post it again. I thought about cheating and posting the fourth pic from the 1st folder (titled "Favorites), but that was a pic of my daddy holding a baby doll of Emalee's last Christmas. Although he doesn't know how to turn on a computer and would probably never see it, I didn't think he would appreciate that pic being posted. And the next pic was of Mama with her head wrapped in a scarf carolling last Christmas. She does look at the blog, and I know she would have been upset with me if I had posted that one.

I tag Rachel (maybe she'll actually post a pic for a change), Cara (who NEVER posts), and Casey.

Bedtime???

Ben was wired at bedtime. As you can see, his daddy wasn't helping much to calm him down. They were both having fun, though.





We've been practicing sitting up. Ben is a late sitter. He's getting better, but he still falls over pretty quickly. He's learned that I usually put a pillow behind him when he's sitting so he just throws himself backwards, which he thinks is really funny. One day the pillow isn't going to be there and it's going to hurt. I took this pic a couple of days ago and just forgot to post it.

Off to work we go

John had a cook out at work this evening. Ben and I went for a couple of hours. He was so good. He smiled, jabbered, waved and even let people hold him. One of the drivers has a thick beard. While he was holding him, Ben reached over and stroked his beard and then pulled on it. The driver loved it. Here are a couple of pics of Ben at work then two more that I took today just because I hadn't posted any pics lately.




Someone with a good eye and a long memory may recognize Ben's walker. It's nearly an antique. It was Zac's. I found it in the attic last time I was home. Ben goes backwards really well. I've only seen him move forward once and that was an accident. We call sitting in the walker "driving his car."


Notice his feet. Cara bought these boots for him. They are camo on top.

Fun with Books

Now Ben has to have his own book when we read. He would prefer to have whatever book I am holding, but a similar book will satify him. His favorite book to look at is this Little Critter book by Mercer Mayer. Just flipping it around and looking at the back and front covers will hold his attention for five minutes or more.

Really, it doesn't matter what I'm holding, he wants it -- the remote control, my cell phone, etc. I won't let him put paper books or electronics in his mouth and that frustrates him. I saw a baby remote control at Wal-Mart. He may find that in his stocking Christmas morning.

We both have runny noses so this week hasn't been a lot of fun.