8 months

B man is now 8 months....it seems like each passing month goes faster and faster.what he's up to this month..

- is 28 inch's long ( still a little shorty like his mom though )

- weighs 17lbs 11onz ( just doubled his birth weight )

- loves to eat still (one day he will love something,one day he will hate it ) 

- crawls faster and faster ( we now know what we need to baby proof ) 

- he loves to stand, he is so excited when he pulls himself up ( so proud ) 

- no new teeth, just the two on the bottom

As most of you already know Ben has such an amazing personality already. Just a little man, he is so sweet and precious when he is happy but boy when he is upset. He will let you know right away if he is displeased (washing his face is a huge deal ). But I will take the unhappy for the happy any day, just one smile can last forever!

oh and I forgot to mention... no signs of a gluten allergy at all!! yay!

As you all might know, Josh has a severe allergy to gluten ( any wheat, rye, barley..ext). He can't have gluten at all, not even a bite or he will be in pain. So before we ever talked about kids we were worried that they might have the same allergy. Now that Ben has started to eat more and more solid foods we wanted to look at getting him tested before we gave him any wheat products. Basically it is a 50/50 chance whether he will have it or not, but the doctor explained there is no way to test if he has the allergy if we have never given him gluten. So the next three weeks he is to have gluten ( as much as possible ) and see if he has any reactions. Luckily the trip to the allergist wasn't a total waste of time  he tested Ben for all other possible allergies ( like milk, soy, dust, pollen, pets ext.) and it all came back negative! Hopefully we will say the same for the gluten allergy! I will keep you updated! Have a great weekend!

Belated Valentines

Happy late Valentines day! Sorry this post comes to you a few days late but thought I would share anyways. Thanks to a very special Nana,  Josh and I were lucky enough to have a night away on Valentines day. A friend of ours gave us a voucher for a free nights stay at Caesars Casino Windsor so why not stay there. It was beautiful, the room, the food and of course the casino. Josh and I ended up winning enough so the entire two days were free, so we were pretty happy. Ben seemed to have had a great night with his Nana, I am not sure if he even missed us!

just because

How to have a conversation with Ben

snow days

With all this snow we have been getting lately we have been stuck in doors. It's hard to find different activities to do with a 7 1/2 month old. So to keep things interesting we experiment with food. Ben loves to eat and play so.. put them together and what do you have..an hour of entertainment!

Yummy

I find this picture too adorable I had to share!

Learning to Crawl

Ben has finally learned to move. He is like a little inch worm, he inches his way to what he wants. Its so funny, he won't crawl yet for any of his own toys..only for things he shouldn't have like the remote, the camera or x box controller. Soon enough I'm sure he will be moving fast.

Swimming Lessons

A few weeks ago Ben and I started swimming Lessons in Petrolia. It is a beautiful therapeutic pool (so its nice and warm)  Ben loves it, he gets so excited when he see's the pool. He is a natural swimmer, although he doesn't swim on his own but with my help he kicks his little feet and splashes with his arms while on his tummy. Ben also thinks its fun when he sits on the ledge and falls into the pool ( with me catching him of course). We sing songs like hokey poky and if your happy and you know it. His favorite thing of all is floatingon his back, he is so relaxed and calm..its too cute!Unfortunately we are not aloud to take any photo's of them in the pool ( dumb rule ) so here is a before and   after. Like I said the pool is super warm but once you get out it's freezing!!