Four-month old Benjamin

Benjamin turns four months old and big brother Barrett is loving his new playmate. Benjamin weighed in at 15lbs. 8oz. at his checkup! He is in the 90th percentile for height and 70th for weight. Big healthy fella. Give me an esophagus and watch me grow!!! We say that a lot around our house.

Big news at our house is potty training with B....big fun. You will see a pic of B at the lake house on his homemade stool (thanks to Granddaddy). We watch the potty movie, we talk about the potty, we hang out in the bathroom and read books and try to go potty...we are all about the potty...and we celebrate success with M&M's!

Lots of fun play pics including a few with our friend Sally who is one of B's favorite friends...and Benjamin in a few of his new apparatuses...what in the world did they do before they invented these things!

Holiday Week

We spent the fourth of July weekend resting at the lake. But before we left town Benjamin had another hearing test at Children's and his first visit to the HEAR clinic (which is a specialized division of Children's focusing on children with hearing loss). You will see the pic above of Benjamin all hooked up for the test. He looks REALLY happy about it huh...I know...the pictures are not in order...but I am still not really good at the blog thing...but I'm trying.

Thankfully Benjamin's hearing loss was the same as the last test...perfect in the right ear and mild/moderate loss in left ear. We have decided not to use any type of hearing device in the one ear with loss after consulting with both an ENT and the HEAR folks who said they feel it is not necessary. Benjamin does qualify for early intervention through the state since he does have some loss so they will be coming to do home visits and monitoring both his hearing and speech. They will monitor him till he is 3 years old which is so reassuring to have another person watching him closely to make sure the loss does not cause any delay in his speech.

The fourth of July was so much fun at Lake Wedowee with Grandmama and Granddaddy Gooden. Barrett was like a little tadpole and we had to pull him out of the water to sleep and eat. He also loved riding the jet ski with his dad. Benjamin loved the lake and thanks to a few battery operated fans he was able to be outside in the shade with the rest of the fam. Barrett LOVED being in charge of Benjamin's fans as you will see in the pics. Samford (our black lab) is now in recovery mode after a weekend of constant swimming and chasing tennis balls. He is 7-years-old but you would never know it when there is water or a ball around. He finally passed out in the car on the way home and has moved a little slow since then...probably a combination of being sore and being a little depressed to be back to our boring house.