Moving Day
Mood:  incredulous
We did it....we moved out of our projects in Brighton and into our mansion in Newton! Okay...it's not a mansion, but it sure does feel roomy!... but maybe that's because we don't have a couch anymore!! Oops! After 2 hours of trying to squeeze our 102 inch sofa into a tiny doorway, the menfolk gave up...Many thanks to Papa Joe and Uncle Joe for adopting our Big Greenie! It's back to Bernie & Phyl's to get a new one...Nothing says class quite like Bernie & Phyl's!

Ben is enjoying his new room...Lucky for him, I found my two autographed pictures of Don Mattingly (a.k.a. The Greatest Yankee's Player ever!) and I will hang them in his room for him to stare at!! Then he can have sweet dreams of being a Yankee's 1st Baseman someday! Ben is such a lucky boy to have a mother who will guide him down the right path!

A week of firsts!
Mood:  energetic
This has been a glorious week of "firsts!" First time trying the stroller without the car seat on it, first time trying applesauce, first time drinking prune juice (we won't eloborate on this one!)...not exactly memorable firsts, but I needed to keep you updated on something going on!!!

Ben is not impressed with our new "moving box" decoration motiff we have going on. He prefers his mother's beautiful patriotic decorations! In about a week, he'll have lots of stuff to look at as we start to settle into yet another place.

Ben also isn't a big fan of Mr. Rogers. Just in case you were wondering.

Beefin' Up for the Pros!
Mood:  don't ask
After enduring weeks of people saying how small Ben is...you know the comments:

"oh he's too small to be 3 1/2 months!!" - old ladies walking down the street

"My 7 week old baby is bigger than him!" - Shaw's Bagger

"My Chihuahua is bigger than your 3 month old!" - Pedro at Boca Grande Taqueria

Well in the words of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, "The Scales Don't Lie!" Ben weighed in at a whopping 14 lbs, 6 ozs today! Just 4 ounces shy of doubling his birth weight! (That's also 57 1/2 Quarter Pounders from Micky Ds!)

I've already been talking to the Miami Dolphins to recruit him for their 2028-2029 season. They are looking forward to winning the Super Bowl in '29 with Benny Haugh as their Quarterback.

Success with the Carrier
Mood:  chatty
After about 7 attempts with the carrier (the thing that makes you feel like a Kangaroo with your baby), we finally had some success with it! Ben and I went to Target to buy a new toaster oven and he enjoyed all 47 minutes of it. My motherly kangaroo insticts kicked in and I started jumping around the store with him. We had a lot of people giving us some stares but I'm convinced they were just jealous of our kangaroo ways!

Rice Cereal Success!
Mood:  hungry
After multiple attempts with the rice cereal, we had a successful one tonight! By successful, I mean Ben was wearing 1/2 of it and he ate 1/2 of it. Much better than any other attempt we had! We did mix it with soy based formula this time instead of the usual...so maybe Ben was just trying to tell us that he likes to eat organically! If that is the case, I'm going to have to take him to Trader Joe's...I'm sure he'll love that place!

We are little Pilgrims!
Mood:  rushed
We ventured to Plymouth, Mass today to meet our friends Erica and Ron. We saw a lovely replica of the Mayflower but decided not to shell out the $8 to tour it. It was so small that we wouldn't have gotten our monies worth...plus, it wasn't even the real deal!

The Rock was so impressive...we could have stayed their for hours looking at the exciting thing, but we started getting hungry so we decided to eat instead of stare at the rock some more.

Laughing Goat Boy and the RMV
Mood:  cheeky
Today I was doing dishes, like a good little wife should be doing, and I heard some weird noise from Ben. So I went into the living room to see what was up and James had him laughing up a storm! It really didn't sound like laughs...more like a goat that got hit by a car...but he was all smiles at James and laughing like no tomorrow!

Ben had an adventurous couple days. We went to two RMVs today (that's DMV for people who live outside of Massachusetts). We just bought a used Jeep and there was an issue with the title. So after one RMV turned us away (the lady didn't seem too impressed with Ben...why, I do not know! ha ha!), we went to another...we schmoozed the lady with Ben and lo and behold she conveniently had her manager sign off on our problem. Good thing we had Ben with us...we're trying to teach him that good looks and a flashy, gummy smile can get you things in this world!

Attack of the River Rat!
Mood:  a-ok
Ben got a stuffed rat and oceaned theme swing from his grandmama...he likes to play with them together so it's sort of like Attack of the River Rats in our apartment these days. If you are reading this and want a stuffed rat for your own child or yourself, they sell them at Ikea for $1.99...they have grrrrreat things at Ikea!

Framingham Babies R Us is Tops!
Mood:  lucky
We trotted off to buy some diapers at Babies R Us and ended up getting an ExerSaucer too! The people at the Framingham/Natick Babies R Us were so nice! Maybe it's because it was a Monday afternoon and not a weekend, but the associates I talked to really should get some sort of Employee of the Month award and/or raises.

We weren't really sure how Ben would initially take to his new contraption...but once I picked him up to put him in, he was all smiles and giggles! He thought the whole experience was absolutely grand! Since he's still a little on the small side (the box says 4+ Months)...we only let him stay in for a couple minutes. Who knew colored hard plastic could be so much fun!

A big Move"ment"...
Today we signed the lease for our new apartment! James is not happy that we're selling out and moving to the suburbs, but that is what one does when they have babies we suppose!

While in the real estate office, Ben did one of his signature smelly "movements"...so when the agent left to make copies of stuff, James picked up the bugger and there was poopie all over! James got poopie on his shirt, and Ben was wearing a white outfit so it was great! This was the first major poopie leak...Great first impression for Newton's soon-to-be classiest residents!