Benjamin - 21 months

I’ve been really bad at documenting Benjamin’s life thus far. So the stigma of the third child remains true in our household. But I know if I don’t do it now, I for sure never will (as Bethan will be here in 4 days!).

Benjamin is 21 months old right now (and a few days). He is just as smart as our other children were, and he amazes me every day with the new things he has learned.
His smile is infectious. I just can’t get enough of it. He is still the most perfect, well-behaved baby I have ever met, and strangers tell us the same thing constantly. I wish I knew how he turned out this way, so we could copycat what we did to make Bethan just the same :)

His most favorite thing in the whole world is baseballs. He loves seeing pictures of them and wearing clothes with baseballs on them. But most of all he loves playing baseball and watching Will play. Every time we get out of the van he runs and picks up his egg-shaped chalk, sets it on the baseball tee, picks up Will’s bat, and hits the chalk. He is a great thrower, and loves playing in the driveway with Will and Scott. The other day they were so cute outside…Will would hit the ball, Scott would catch it and give it to Benjamin, and Ben would throw it back to Will. And Scott had taught him how to stand baseball ready, too. So precious. He also loves to watch Will play. He constantly yells from the bleacher “Go Way-ull!” and “Go Red Sox!”, and he screams and claps loudly with the rest of us when anything good happens.
He still enjoys watching Chuggington, though not as much as he used to. But it is the only thing he ever asks to watch. He is starting to enjoy mostly playing with any kind of vehicle he can find. He just sits in the floor forever just pushing cars and motorcycles around the room.

He still also loves to eat, pretty much anything, although fruit is his favorite. Any kind. He would never stop eating fruit if I gave him that opportunity. He loves bananas, and now calls them “Ninas”. No clue why. But it’s better than “mnumnums” like he used to say.

Words he says:
Baseball
‘Mere (Come Here)
Ant (rhymes with want, he puts it before other words to say “ant a ball”
Bubby (Buggy – Kirstine)
Light
Jump
Will
Baby
Ball
Taintoo (thank you. he says this ALL the time. if you ever hand him anything he wants he says it to you)
Yes mam
Up
Help
Eat
More
Drant (prounounced with a long, southern a, = drink)
Molt (milk)
Yay!
Door
Night Night
Teeth
Diaper
Wite (wipe)
Boo boo
Bite
Jesus
Bible
In dere (In there, in response to us asking him where something is)
Dat (that)
Pese (please)

And at this point he is repeating everything we say, and learning new words every day, so i have to stop adding words. (he just learned stick and kick yesterday as a matter of fact)