ten months.

This little nugget is still our sweet little guy. His personality is shining more and more.
Fun Facts:
- Benson has been babbling a ton more. Lots of "ba-ba-ba" and "va-va-va" along with all his other sounds and jabbering.
- He goes back and forth with his sleeping through the night. But lately it hasn't been the best and wakes up to eat only once.
- He rolls around at record speeds and is slowly but surely figuring out the whole crawling thing. He has made great strides though. He army crawls with his left hand while his right arm gets stuck underneath him. He will get it. He is definitely getting around though. I will sit him up in my room with toys while I shower and soon he is pounding on the shower door.
- More than anything this boy loves to walk around. He is getting more brave moving around furniture and standing by himself. We are never far from him when he does this though because he will fall instantly. If he could hold our hands, he would walk all day long.
- He loves his baby food, puffs, and Cheerios...and thats about it. He doesn't like to eat table food. If you can get it in his mouth he loves it, but won't feed himself and won't let you feed him anything. Silly boy. Some foods we have tried: eggs, toast, green peppers, yogurt...the last two he does like. It's a slow process as we try to introduce more foods to him. At least he doesn't spit anything out and flat out refuse.

-Benson loves to be outside. We are loving that Spring is here and that Summer is coming. Many park days, bike rides, and swimming to look forward to.

-He loves when he can hear the train that goes by or any fire trucks. He will stop whatever he is doing to listen.
-He has recently discovered that he can stick his tongue out. It is the cutest. Of course when we try to get a picture of him doing it, he stops. So just believe me.
-Each morning Benson brushes his teeth with Matt. He loves copying Matt.

nine months.

Although I didn't mind being pregnant, the nine months we have had Benson have been way better then him being in me. These past nine months have gone by way faster then my pregnancy too. I can't think about the fact that I will have a one year old in 3 months. Not okay.

Weight: 22 lbs 3 oz- 85%

Height: 28 1/2 inches- 65%

Head Circum.: 44.8 cm.- 40%

- Benson is a wanna be walker. He is most happy when he is up holding our hands and walking all over the place.

- He isn't crawling yet, but is making progress. 

- We gave homemade baby food a try. He loves the fruit and hates the veggies. So we do both homemade and jars. It's mostly just something fun and different for me to do.

- He finally got his own highchair and loves it.

-He has had more types of food this month. Puffs were strange for him at first but now he eats them by the fist full. He loves Cheerios and black beans. Still not a fan of avocados. We are looking forward to eating more soft table foods this month.

-Benson got 4 teeth in the last few weeks. Two on top and two on bottom. Those top two were super painful for him and gave us some sleepless nights. It was awful.

- His sleeping at night has gone downhill. I think the teeth threw him off. He has been waking up lots. We are working on getting back on track. Last night he slept the whole night so fingers crossed.

- Benson learned how to do "sooo big" and loves to do it.

- He has also gotten back into his spitting/noise making phase. We think its cute and fun except when it comes to eating time. Not fun. Food gets all over him and me.

- He loves to drink water out of his sippy cup, but loves drinking out of my glass even more.

- Benson still loves his books and now likes to pull them all off his shelf.

- He loves his touchy feely books and knows right where the different textures are. He thinks every book is going to have different textures and feels every page for them.

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