Bottles, Nursery, and Other Benjamin News

A quick update on the bottle issue- well, there isn't one. After those 2 times Benjamin "asked" for a bottle he never mentioned them again. He seems to have no problem drinking milk from a sippy cup right before bed or at any other time during the day. We're so happy :)

Sunday we decided to start taking Benjamin to Nursery at church. He's about 3 weeks away from being old enough to go and we thought he'd do better if we sat with him in there for a few weeks before just dropping him off. He did really well until some other kid pushed him down. When we got there the teachers were putting out crayons and paper and Benjamin went straight for an empty chair and tried to climb up. As soon as I got him sitting he grabbed 2 crayons and started coloring. When the teachers put music on he went over and started dancing in front of the cd player. Then he sat down and started hitting buttons and turning the volume up and down. He does that at home too. About this time the teachers brought out bubbles and that interested Benjamin for a long time- until some kid pushed him over. He cried and then sat in my lap for all of Singing Time. He listened very intently and let me help him with all the hand movements. When it was his turn to pick a song (paper popcorn pieces velcroed to a picture of a tree) he went right for it and seemed to completely understand what he was doing. He had no problem giving the popcorn back to the teacher so she could read what song we were to sing next.

So... we're glad that Benjamin seems ready for Nursery. We'll have about 4 weeks of only needing to entertain Benjamin through Sacrament before the new baby comes.

Benjamin has picked up a couple new words. If you remember, he had three that he would say before- Dad, Jesus, and Please. We've heard him say Dog and Car in the past couple weeks. And his "babbling" has started to include some new sounds he didn't say before. We have a book of animals and we're trying to teach him what the different animals say. He already knew a dog says "woof" (but he really just blows air out through his lips in an "oooffffffff" sound) and now he knows a chicken says "Cluck cluck" which in Benjamin language sounds more like "cah cah." It's so much fun to see him trying to say new words.