The last few days have been no fun at all. Due to extreme winds of 60-75mph, our power was knocked out. In some areas it looked like tornadoes had ripped through the neighborhood. Roofs were missing and trees were in houses, it was scary. This all started on Sunday. It was a wind storm caused by Ike. Who know that it would have an impact on us. Benjamin liked to watch the wind making the leaves on the trees dance, but he knew that something was wrong because my happy baby has been so fussy the last 2 days. Luckily the power was turned on this afternoon.
I can not begin to understand how the people in Texas are handling all of this. I pray that they are safe and get through this.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
No Power
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
The Cincinnati Zoo
For Tim's birthday a few weeks ago, I planned a fun-filled, jam packed day. We started out at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. I had always heard how awesome it was and Ben loved all of the Giraffe Ridge commercials, so we thought that we would go there. It was actually a nice day, which was quite surprising since it was sandwiched in between two super hot and humid days.
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
15 Month Check-Up
We went to the doctor's office yesterday for Ben's 15 month check-up. Ben absolutely loves his doctor and all of the nurses. I really like Ben's doctor too. He does so well with Ben and he doesn't make us feel silly for stupid questions. Which as a parent I don't like to admit I ask, but we all know we can get paranoid about things with our bundles of joy for no reason sometimes.
But anyway, the appointment went really well. Ben, who used to be in the 90th percentile for anything is now just an average joe. Which I am not sure I believe that in terms of height because he is much taller than a lot of children his age. Ben is now 25 pound 14 ounces and is 31 inches long. He has really leveled off in terms of weight, only gaining about a pound since his last appointment three months ago. He only got one shot, which did not phase him at all. He looked at the nurse like he knew she was doing something to him, but didn't realize what. He smiled the whole time.
The doctor said he is doing well and that it sounds like he is communicating pretty well. The next check-up they do the communication check where if they feel like a child is lagging developmentally, they are referred to a speech therapist to evaluate them. So that is nervewracking, but what can you do?
So there is the update on the little man. We will post some new pictures eventually. So bye bye for now! :)
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Friday, July 25, 2008
The Park
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Swinging fun. Tim thought that it would
be fun to push Ben high, Ben didn't think so.
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Ben checking out the trees and
the little girl on the big kid swings.
He is such a flirt.
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Grocery Shopping
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
First Haircut
We gave Ben his first haircut yesterday. I thought that he would have issues sitting still and wanting to grab the clippers, but he did amazing. We finally decided to cut his hair because he looked like he had an old man comb over on the top and a mullet in the back. Now all of his hair is the same length and he looks like his daddy.
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Fourth of July
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