The mystery in our house is solved. The hearing-impaired captions on our television screen have been on for a few days. How did that happen? Could it be someone's persistent remote control waa-hooing. Once he has that remote in his hands, he runs with it. Why did it take us so long to figure it out? Well, since we are constantly hiding the remotes, it is a pain to actually find it to take action.
We take sneezing for granted as adults. The main difference between an adult and a baby is that we adults have control. Benjamin has hit his little face/nose on the dining room table a number of times. And when he swims he swings his head back and lands face down in the water on the “choo” part of the ah..choo. Right now, when he sneezes, he just rubs his nose with the back of his hand all over his face, hair, and mami and papi's sleeve. This is all done while we search for tissue.
He has figured out that pushing the water and ice dispenser on the refrigerator will produce a big, wet mess. If he cannot find something to push to stand on to tap it with his hand, then he will just grab a cup and push it while on his tiptoes.
Benjamin will try to convert anything into a “stool' so that he can grab the hidden treasures that lurk above him. Things he has tried to convert: toys, chairs, tables, couches, beds, boxes, shoes, bags, purses. Needless to say, we cannot leave “anything” out or it will be stepped on and used by our 22- pound monkey.
Teething – more teeth. We have been dealing with night calls from benjamin at around 3 a.m. After finally being able to stick our finger in his bite trap of a mouth – we felt a molar! Talk about some serious teeth poking through some sensitive gums. His upper first molar is poking through. Ouch.
Santa Claus
So our job as parents is to freak out our child by placing him in the lap of a stranger dressed in bright clothing with a big white beard. Obviously, Benjamin didn't receive Santa too well. But 20 minutes later, he was on Santa's lap with his cousin Lilly - and poof – no more fear. Just like that. Perhaps we could have gone about things a bit differently (like letting Benjamin warm up to the huge mall full of people before passing him off onto Santa) he possibly would have handled things a bit better. But alas, nothing says holiday tradition like a photograph with Santa.
This year:
Last year:
All calm with his cousin Lilly:
Thanksgiving in Dallas with Abuelos and Primos
Benjamin had a blast hanging out with his family in Dallas. It's fun to watch our little guy admire his older cousins by following them around and watching them with curious eyes. Abuela brought constant smiles to monkey with lots of fun playtime. He especially loved blowing out candles (under constant supervision – of course!). Blowing out candles is Benjamin's latest favorite trick. We are hoping that he will aspire to be one who continues to put out fires and not the opposite. ;)
It got pretty cold in Dallas but that did not stop little B from playing outside at the park. He hardly noticed the cool weather because he was too excited.
The Gonzalez boys! Benjamin's Uncle Marcos, Papi, and his cousins Keith, Hunter, and Nick. And, let's not forget Scout, too.
We are thankful for having yet another happy, healthy year and look forward to many more happy thanksgivings.
Till next week!
1 comment:
we had a similar santa experience. Ray asked if i was going to get the picture taken again but i said that every kid needs his crying santa picture in the album :)
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