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Wow! You made it 1/2 a year with daddy and I as your parents :) You’ve turned into quite the snuggler, so sweet and squishy. Growing big, you’re 17lbs. You’re still drooling like crazy, I’m waiting for a tooth to appear but nothing yet! We started solid food last week and you aren’t a fan of rice cereal. However you LOVE bananas and oatmeal and couldn’t get enough of them. You tried grabbing the spoon and shoving it in your mouth and got very angry if I wasn’t fast enough.

You’ve taken to shrieking like a veloceraptor — it’s obnoxious but kind of cute. When you’re really happy you get this psycho grin and silly eyes that dart back and forth. It’s funny, but you look like a crazed lunatic :)

You LOVE the kitties and get so excited when they walk by. You start bouncing up and down and reaching for them and babbling something I’m assuming means “kitty” :) I think Jack finds you annoying because he scurries away, but Colby seems enamored with you and comes over and lets you pet him. Even though you mostly just grab his fur, he rolls over and gives you his tummy.

Naptime has started to become interesting. The past few months you’ve had no problem going right to sleep when I lay you down during the day. Lately though there’s been tears and mad kicking feet as soon as you realize what’s coming. Little stinker. I also had to take your crib bumpers off this week because during naptime you’d reach through and untie them! And then you chew on the strings and slobber them all up. It’s amazing you remembered exactly where they were in your crib and without fail you’d pull them out every nap time. They really just served as decoration anyway, but I was always having to retie them. Silly boy.

Finally, I hate to report Ben is not the smallest, cutest, awww worthy baby at the Y anymore. He’s been ousted by a set of 4 month old boy/girl twins. Don’t get me wrong, he still gets smiles and the ladies say he’s always a pleasure. But you can’t compete with quiet, serene twins when you’re a big slobbery monster :)