I LOVE TO EAT!! Benjamin is a true Erickson...

We have graduated from rice cereal and we are now on to veggies as of September 2009. I decided to start with carrots one of my favorite foods. Benjamin LOVED them and even now 4 months later if we are snacking on a carrot he kicks and moans because he wants one. We even use them raw "supervised of course" as a teether when he has teeth coming in. He now loves to just knaw on carrots. What's up Doc??

We have been working on signing and teaching the sign for more, but as of now (Sept, 2009) He just likes to bang on the high chair for MORE FOOD! More food, mommy more food!!! He eats like an adult. The other morning he ate a whole banana, one cup of yogurt and a whole bowl of Cheerios. That is more than I eat for breakfast and I am pregnant!

When things get a little plugged up we try prunes and he even LOVES those!! Yummy prunes. He has been known to take two jars in a sitting. We learned the hard way and now have to limit him to only ONE! Otherwise, we have diaper disasters in the morning.:)

I was trying to be so good and make my own baby food. I made some spinach for us for dinner and just thought, hmm I wonder if I pureed this if Benjamin would eat it?? SO, I put it in the food processor and made some Spinach soup. I had it in a plastic bowl for feeding and made the mistake of setting the bowl down on his tray while I reached for a napkin. He got a hold of it and had a Spinach soup party!! In his high chair. Needless to say we have started feeding him naked with only a diaper on. We were running out of OXICLEAN to clean his laundry! Popeye, here I come!!! His grandparents are so proud, his Grandmommy loves to eat and cook veggies and grandpa Erickson loves the fact that Benjamin loves tomatoes of all things! Especially the cherry tomatoes!
Benjamin even loves to cook with Daddy - he is passionate about food!! We love that about him and cannot wait until he is stealing food from his cousins like all of his uncles do!! hee hee

Busy, Busy Benjamin - long post!!

Benjamin is a very busy little infant. Whereever we go ... the church nursery, Women's Bible study at Watermark, his mother's day out or even just in the grocery store, people are always saying "wow Benjamin is really BUSY!!" I am not sure what that means, but judging from my fatigue and my aching hips I think it means he is really on crack cocaine. Not sure what Daddy is slipping in his bottles, but he has so much energy I don't know what to do with him. We rarely can even get a good picture of him without it being blurry.

Busy eating....yummy I LOVE rice cereal... August 2009
Busy Jumping with Cousins Ainsley and Mckay - they are "teaching him how to jump" in the Johnny Jumper. As if he needed training :)
Busy Being Cute for Daddy....Smiling and Cooing and babbling (I took these pictures for Bryce's 34th birthday back in July)
Busy in his Exercauser - he does take small breaks sometimes to suck his two fingers for support when he gets frustrated. Praise the Lord for the Exercauser. It was one of his "Happy Places" and truly contained him for two months. Sad to say now that he is mobile he is OVER the exercauser. We have it cleaned and ready for Baby #2! - August 2009
Busy at the Denver Airport - we spent 8 hours there on our way to Colorado in August. Just Benjamin and mommy day. Thankfully he was a total champ. However, by the end of the day I had to get him out of the stroller and have some wiggle time on the floor. Thankfully I had a big blanket in my diaper bag and his favorite froggy for his blanket time on the floor of Denver International Airport. It was so gross I was constantly "purelling" him after he would roll onto the real floor of airport. Thankfully, we finally made it to Aspen to see friends Alana and Sally in Steamboat. Mommy needed her Colorado fix!! - Mid-August 2009
This picture is his first time sitting up. He seems to perform well at the grandparents house and this time he was practicing sitting up all by himself and very proud of himself. Big Daddy says he looks like a "drunk indian" when he cannot catch his balance, but we think its pretty cute!!

Uh Oh I'm falling over....whoa!!!

Busy wiggling with Mommy - he loves to stand up and have us prop him up and he LOVES to March in place - Sept. 11, 2009
Busy with playing with "Hannah Montana" AKA his cousin Ainsley. This was Halloween and she even had her own microphone and gold sparkly pants!!

After many hours of playing, wiggling, rolling over, practicing walking with Daddy and kicking everywhere Benjamin is not afraid to just CRASH. Sleep is not a punishment to him and we are so grateful for that. He was so tired he fell out in his high chair this night! We could not even finish dinner. Too tired to eat tonight.