Christmas

This year we were able to go out to Utah for Christmas. We had a lot of fun playing with all the cousins. I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures and describe the vacation as I go.

Bennett's first time seeing Santa, I thought for sure he would cry but he was just curious!

Cousins Bradley and Laney are getting really good at reading. Bradley is reading us a Christmas story

First time seeing/touching snow!

This is my cousin Dave. He's the only person Bennett would let hold him at the party with my dad's side of the family.

Cousin Laney's silly glasses

This was a fun night. My sister and her family came and stayed with us at our parents. One night we put golden tickets on the kids pillows and got them ready for bed. The tickets were for the Minivan Express. When they found them they were jumping up and down they were so excited (even though they had no idea what they were for). So we loaded up the Minivan and drove around to see Christmas lights. They got to have hot chocolate and popcorn. It was fun for both the parents and the kids!

Bennett loved looking at all the lights. (notice his very festive jammies)

Sushi with the girls and Bennet

It was so yummy. It's a great little place on 25th Street in Ogden. I forgot the name.

Christmas Eve before the Jammies. (Notice Bennett's ugly Christmas sweater)

Everyone ready for bed in their Christmas jammies. Christmas Eve was lots of fun. We played lots of games and sang Christmas songs. We were glad we got to spend it with Larson family!

This is the extent of Bennett's excitement Christmas morning. Also notice he's back in his other jammies. He had a sick tummy which resulted in some industrial leakage. The present from the Larson cousins seen here is very fitting.

Bennett's haul. There are also some big things that didn't make it to Utah not seen in this picture

My sister's dog Loki. Bennett was very concerned about him being in the cold

We got to play in the snow a few times. Bennett seemed to enjoy it

All the cousin's (minus Julia, she just got hit in the face with a snow ball) making snow angels

All the cousins with Great-Grandma Swenson (sorry it's not a great picture)

Going sledding with all the cousins (except Julia I'm not sure why she's not in this one)

Playing with cousin Tyson

The other cousins (Lincoln's side)

That's our vacation in a nut shell. We also had the chance to see lots of Lincoln's family. One outing in particular we had 7 of the 8 great-grandchildren born this year. Lots of parties, lots of food, lots of family, lots of the flu, but mostly lots of fun!

9 months

It's been crazy with the holidays and being out in Utah (post coming), so I'm a little behind.

Bennett is 9 months!

Here's the stats from the Doctor

Height: 30 in (90%)
Weight: 23 lbs (80%)

Likes: The vacuum (he chases it every time), climbing on everything (especially up the stairs), eating (he always thinks he's hungry)

Dislikes: Meal prep time, sitting still during diaper changes, getting his runny nose wiped.  

His 3rd tooth came in and the 4th is on its way. The ones coming in are not his top middle teeth but the two on the the sides. He'll be our little vampire baby!

 This is my FAVORITE! We can't seem to take posed pictures with out daddy's help.

Other happenings

I made Bennett a mii

 This is a hat cousin Bradley made for him!

Bennett loves his bath time. We can hardly control him long enough to take off his clothes.

8 Months

This post is really late, sorry.

8 months! It's been a crazy month for Bennett. He officially started crawling and he's getting pretty fast. He pulls himself to a standing position on almost anything he can grasp. His bottom two teeth came in. And he had his first major cold.

Here are some updates
Height: 29 inches
Weight: 22.7 pounds

Likes: Eating, his mom and sometimes his dad, standing and walking with help, being tickled/laughing, cords/electronics, anything he can put in his mouth. He LOVES to move, he never sits still.

Dislikes: Anyone besides his mother (babysitters, grandparents, etc.), when his mother walks away from him

I could not get him to sit still, so with the help of Lincoln we were able to get a few shots of him standing/leaning

 

Lately he's been standing for seconds at a time, I counted to 10 once. He's also learning when he lets go to sit rather than just fall straight back. I don't think it will be much longer till he's walking. He is so active that he's not gaining much weight anymore. But he's still got some cute rolls! We sure do love this little guy.

Thanksgiving

Lincoln had a week off of school right before Thanksgiving, so we were able to go down to Springfield and see his parents. We had Thanksgiving dinner at our house, though, because I had to work at 4am Black Friday. We had so much fun hanging out with family and eating good food. We're grateful to have family that lives close and we can see fairly often.

If you follow the pictures you can see at first Bennett was excited to be at the table with everyone else. Then he was mad he didn't have any food, then he was given a roll and life was good again.

I love all the food at Thanksgiving. I just wish it didn't take so long to make.

We also got to have a small early Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa Andreasen. We won't be seeing them again before Christmas, so they were nice enough to bring some gifts with them.

This was Bennett's first experience opening presents. We thought he would just want to play with the paper, but he was so excited to see what the gift was he didn't even finish unwrapping it. He just wanted to play with the buttons that were exposed.

Random happenings

Grandma Judy has kept some of Lincoln's old baby clothes, so it's always fun when she brings something new for Bennett to wear. This was Lincoln's bow tie

Bennett has had a pretty nasty cold this week. The poor guy fell asleep sitting up, so we wrapped him up and snuggled him to make him a little more comfortable.

Bennett is doing this flop crawling thing. He's seemed to be really interested in walking and his progress on crawling has slowed. But he's getting the hang of it.