July 28, 2011

Benjamin's Blessing

This past Sunday we had lots of family in town for Benji's baby blessing. Trav's dad and his wife LeeAnn came out as well as all of my family except for my brother David (who was greatly missed). Needless to say, it was a fun-filled and crazy weekend. Travis gave Benji an excellent blessing -- most notably he mentioned that Benji would be very interested in the way the world works and seek for knowledge about it -- which I take to mean we have another future engineer on our hands ;) Well, at least we know how to keep them entertained!
Here we are on Sunday with Golden and LeeAnn

And if you can believe it, here's the entire Lee family (minus David)! 
It's amazing we even got one picture with all the grandkids semi-behaving.


My mom with Benji in his cute blessing outfit.
Since Benji is a particular shade of pasty white, we quickly figured out we didn't want to put him in pale clothes for the blessing for fear of them turning him into a ghost baby. (We did however wrap him in the same white blanket Peter had for his blessing.) In the end we went with this great bright lime green outfit. I think he looks like a doll. 

In other news, we were finally able to get Benji's heart murmur that his pediatrician found at his 2 month check-up looked at. After meeting with a truly wonderful pediatric cardiologist, it looks like Benji has a medium-sized Ventricular Septal Defect which is basically a hole in the dividing wall that separates the lower two chambers of his heart. This can be a serious condition which could eventually require surgery, but our doctor was pretty optimistic about Benji's outlook since he has been steadily gaining weight, eats well and has good color. We'll just be watching him for the next few months pretty closely for any signs of struggle.
In the meantime, we'd greatly appreciate all your prayers for our sweet little man.

July 16, 2011

Peter & Benji Pics

Last week I took Peter and Benjamin to get their pictures taken. Unfortunately, it didn't go quite as well as I would have liked. Benji was just not happy period, Peter was bored and done after 3 shots and the photographer had no idea what she was doing with children. She actually looked at me after the second pose (with only 1 or 2 shots per pose) and asked if we were all done. Sheesh. Oh well, they are still cute boys and these are the ones I liked the best out of the bunch.



July 15, 2011

Two Months and a little

Benji is now 2 months old if you can believe it. At his last appointment he was 9 lbs and 4 oz and 23.5" long. He's got lots of blond hair growing all over his cute little head and the sweetest blue eyes. He is also our happy little man and always has a smile (especially when you tickle his belly). 

Peter is liking his new brother now more that Benji smiles and interacts with us. I just love watching him bring Benji toys or sing songs for him when he cries. 


And this has got to be my favorite - Benji all wrapped up in a monkey towel after a bath. 

July 3, 2011

Celebrate your Independence by Overeating and Blowing Something Up!

We hope yours is filled with lots of water and laughter.