Friday, July 26, 2013

Updating to You Live from Work

Hello everyone, sorry again for the delay inbetween posts, it unfortunately has become a reoccurring theme for me...

That being said, a lot has happened since my last post, Benson is now 5 months old, wow how time flys!

One thing I wanted to touch on before letting you know about Benson, in case you did not know, our cat Mousse, passed away a couple of weeks ago now, he was only 5 years old. Our vet referenced that he thinks it was likely a heart attack or heart failure, but we did not pay to have an autopsy done. Here are a few pictures that Pauline had put together in memory of our feline friend.




As you can see, he was a very lovable cat and we will miss him dearly.

We wanted little Benson to be able to have a stuffed animal that looked like Mousse (since originally we had thought they would become the best of friends as Benson grew up), but now it is more of a reminder of what we once had. The stuffed animal/pet named the same way was an idea based on our nephew Elijah, also having a stuffed animal named Latte, which is the name of their chihuahua. Here are a few pictures of little B with his new stuffed animal Mousse:


He seems to like the stuffed animal a lot and as you can see from the pictures, the stuffed animal looks eerily like Mousse actually looked. I'm glad I was able to find the stuffed animal on Amazon several months ago and get it!

It is so fun to hear how vocal Benson has become! Over the past month or so, he has been talking more and more. No actual words yet, but you can definitely tell he is trying to communicate something! He also is starting to be able to sit up on his own and has rolled over several times, in fact, almost every time we lay him on his back he rolls to his stomach! Which has been a little bit of a problem since he also does it when we put him in his crib to sleep, since he is laying face down, we always make sure that his head is turned so he is breathing properly.

We are having so much fun with Benson now, it is great to be able to take him places as a family and just have that bonding time. A few weekends ago we went on a trip to Minnehaha Falls for a family picnic. It was a rather nice day to go because it wasn't too hot and the park/falls weren't too busy. My brother Stephen and my sister-in-law Liz, as well as our other nephew Elias, met up with us there as well. A staple of us visiting there, for some reason, is to take a picture by the pergola walk-way that they have.

Haha, we are dorks!

Another place we just recently went to with BP is to Pauline's cousin Janelle and her husband Nick's open house. They live about 5 minutes away from where we live, so it wasn't too difficult to go and have a good time! Their home is very beautiful and they even had a relatively new edition to their family, a puppy named Munchy (may have spelled it wrong...), but he is a cute little ball of fur. Here are a couple pics of them meeting:


As you can see from the first picture, Benson had rolled to his stomach and the dog was having a good time trying to nibble him, haha! I can't remember the type of dog he is, but he was very fun and loving!

And for the rest of the post, I am going to show you dorky pictures of us and Benson, that you may have already seen on Facebook:




As you can see, my son will be a gamer!

On that note, I am going to try my best to do a new Blog post every week, again, sorry it has taken me so long and that I am so inconsistent!