It's All About The Benjamin

Also known as the tupperware cabinet. I finally let Ben check out the cabinet today and he LOVED it. (Big surprise, I know). The pictures say it all... Plus, Ben has a certain... fondness for yellow fruits and vegetables. He played with a lemon two weekends ago at a friend's house until it was all soft, warm and pulpy inside. Here he is with his new best friend, butternut squash. Well, it was his best friend until he dropped it and it cracked. Anyone have good recipes for butternut squash? Here he is playing in his new pool at Omie & Opie's house. Didn't care for it at all, obviously: This little boy is such a delight and so much fun! We're over the moon to have him in our life.

Ben made used his first sign today: more! I've been signing to him for weeks and at this point figured he just couldn't be bothered. But when he pointed to the cut plums, I asked him if he would like some more while signing. He actually signed back! Well was totally cool. His newest words are cook, pooh (as in bear, although he hears poo an awful lot in this house), and an old one I forgot to mention is toad. His teeth are still coming in, and a new food today was havarti dill cheese. I'm trying to give him more cow's milk cheeses to increase his calcium intake. He liked it! The little tiny cheeses in little red wax wheels he didn't particularly care for, however. Which means mommy & daddy will have to eat them. Uh oh. Not that mommy & daddy don't like the mini cheese wheels; it's just that we should really avoid such delicious sources of saturated fat and cholesterol. Here are some pictures from the Denver zoo; we were there on July 12th and Ben wa