First off, Benny has a tooth! The bottom, front one came in today :) You can’t really see it yet, but I’ll snap a picture when it comes in more.

My first garbage pick was this activity cube for Ben.

He likes moving the little knobs and grabbing the metal track up top.








I picked up this bin of Duplo blocks (ok, ok they’re Mega Blocks…Duplo’s ugly cousin…) at Goodwill for $9.

They’re $50 at Walmart! A quick wash with soapy water and they’re as good as new.









One of Andy’s coworkers gave us this riding hippo. The seat flips up and is a walking/push toy too for when Ben gets older. (Don’t worry I was close enough to catch him if he got wobbly on it). See the brown spot on his forehead though? That’s from crawling into a dresser, poor dude wasn’t watching where he was going :(





He’s also got a few other toys waiting for him when he gets older. A Playdoh activity center I bought at a garage sale for $5. And a Little Tikes tool bench that is “on loan” from my brother, it was his when he was a little kid.









And I just thought these ones were hilarious, even though he’s way too close to the camera and blurry :)

He bites his lower lip in when he’s concentrating on crawling.