our house!

Finally I have some pictures to show for our new digs. Oh yes! You’re really excited, I can tell! I don’t blame you! I love our new house!

Ben’s bathroom.

Benjamin’s bedroom. You may see a few pictures with him in them because he was following me around… or I was following him. Either way…

Dining room…see what I mean? There’s Ben!

There’s the entry way…
{boy these neighborhood dogs sure do like to bark all night…}

Guest room.

Kitchen… and I LOVE the red.

Laundry area

Living room!

 

Of course, it’s not completely put together but it’s so very close. It is so homey and nice and we just love it here! We are just so blessed! God is good!

Also, a little update on Benjamin and a prayer request. Prayers first. Benjamin is sick. We are probably going to try to get him in to see the doctor this week. Please pray he starts feeling better. He has a runny, cloggy nose {I seriously wipe his nose all day long. He comes to me and goes, “TISSUE! TISSUE! NOSE!” while his nose just drips and drips}, a nasty cough, and he wheezes when he breathes. Sigh!

And the update is that tonight will be the fourth night in a row that he has been sleeping in his big boy bed without any problem at all. This transition has been so easy. We still push the pack-n-play up against his bed until we can get some rails up. But he does so well. We are SO proud of him.

Ahhh my big boy! Now if we can just get him to use the potty….

the makings of a big boy

Last night was a big milestone in Benjamin’s short little life. It was the first night that Benjamin slept all night long in his big boy bed, which actually is my old twin bed that I grew up sleeping in up until I got married. We didn’t have any rails on his bed and maybe we don’t need them {though it would give me peace of mind if we did have some on there}. We shoved his pack-n-play beside his bed and put pillows in there in case he flipped up over the side of the pack-n-play {you never know, right? right?}. We gave him everything he needed. Hubby checked on him about 30 minutes after putting him down and sweet Benjamin was out like a light.

We checked on him before I went to bed, too, and he was still asleep.

And this morning he was still in his bed! We are so proud of our big boy who gets bigger and bigger every day! It’s kind of ironic though because I put him back in his bed to get just ONE good picture of him in his big boy bed and he flipped out baby-style because he thought I was putting him back to bed.

So… imagine that as a smiling face. Yeah, that’s better.

Oh why does he have to grow up so fast?

Ready, Set, Jump!

Today {ah well yesterday, I suppose! - Saturday!} was wonderful. We went to a fellowship at one of the members' at our congregation's house. They have such beautiful property. There were so many wonderful people there and I felt so blessed to be amongst brethren. I think one of the highlights of the day was riding with Hubby and Benjamin, and our friend and his child, and two other kids, on a golf cart all over the property. Although I did feel rather nauseous by the time I got off!



But my absolute favorite moments were the ones where Benjamin was having the most fun {albeit he had a lot of fun steering the golf cart in daddy's lap}.



Benjamin saw the big boys running and jumping over this board, so he decided he was going to jump "over" the board as well. It was so precious. He would run on top of it and "jump" - which is more of a bounce - and run off. Oh my heart was swelling at how adorable and charming my baby boy is!





Don't you love it? That was perfect timing right there! Oh my sweet Benjamin!




He was so proud of himself! He just needed to be a big boy so he could run with the big boys! So we clapped and cheered for him because boy oh boy, was he a big boy!



I am so proud of my darling boy, how excited he is for life, how zealous he is! Why can't we be more like children - giving everything we do our all? Sweet Benjamin jumped and jumped and he jumped with all he had - why can't we be like him? My sweet darling boy!



He inspires me every day...

Anyway...

Benjamin jumped and ran around for a while... and then the storms came.




So it was time to go home.