Bence update

If this blog physically existed in a hard copy form, I'm pretty sure I could blow dust off of it
But let's not dwell on the negative.

Life in the O'Connor household has been rolling by as usual.
Bence is the sweetest, cutest, most adorable little man that ever existed.
Until bedtime.

And then he turns into a little rip.
A compact terror.
A minute banshee.

I took him to the doctor yesterday afternoon thinking he might have an ear infection.
Thinking that might be why he screams bloody murder every night when I try to rock him to sleep.
(He's also been tryin to rip his right ear off)
But after the doctor looked in both he ears, he explained amid deafening screams that Bence seems to have a bit of a temper.
And apart from a little refux and heartburn at night , he may just be mad because he doesn't want to go to bed.

What a little stinker.

Despite his refusing to go to sleep before 2 AM, he really is a little angel.
He isn't a good sleeper, but he's a good eater, a good talker, a good player, and a fun little monkey overall.

He loves to take walks.

He hates being buckled into his stroller.

In fact,I have to put the seat in the furthest reclining position while strapping him in because he stiffens like a board, flailing his arms and legs all over the place.

He's almost fallen out more than once.

By once we're outside, he's quiet as a mouse.
Mostly because there is so much to listen to and look at.

He also loves his feet.
90% of the time he's on the floor, he's trying to put his toes in his mouth.
If he's wearing socks,it's even funnier than usual.
He'll end up with a few inches of empty sock in his mouth once he looses control of his foot.
But he still has hold of the sock.
That's the important thing.

In his bath he now sits (mostly) upright.
Usually I have te keep a hand on his shoulder so he doesn't face plant in the water.
He's just so entertained by those feet!


Most days he's really happy, some days he can be a bit of a fusspot.
He's such a socially needy baby in some ways too.

He's happiest when he has your undivided attention.
And the minute you look away, turn around, or walk out of the room he squawks/cries/screams in indignation.
Like, "HEY! I'm still here!"

His "frontal" hair is starting to curl a bit if I don't brush it when it's wet.
And he rolled over.
He has a hard time getting his arm unpinned from beneath him, bu he's done it a few times now.
He's getting so big and growing in so many ways.

It freaks me out a little bit.

Lately he seems to dislike almost any baby food I give him.
He LOVES oatmeal, but he'll gag and retch when I give him peas, green beans, garden veggies, carrots.
And look at me like, "what is this crap?"

I've taken a bunch of pictures lately

Teeth and Easter

Bence is teething.
At least...I'm Pretty sure he is.
He's back to waking up multiple time a night,
He drools more than the most slobbery dog you can imagine,
(He actually gags and chokes on his spit sometimes)
He's constantly rubbing his cheeks and eyes,
And he refuses to go to sleep (even for naps) without a screaming match.

Gone are his cheerful, adorably happy mornings and afternoons, full of smiles and baby chatter-
We've  ushered in Oscar the grouch- grumpy, whiney, and super sensitive.
Sometimes you only have to look at Bence funny and he'll break into tears.
(As cousin Tatum found out on Easter Sunday.)

Some days are better than others.
He actually did very good on Sunday, when we took a trip to great grandma and grandpa's house in tooele.
He let himself be held by multiple people,
And even though he spit up all over them, he didn't cry.
It probably helped that he slept for part of the trip there.

After crying for fifteen minutes about being put in his carseat, I finally just covered the whole thing with one of his blankets.
It worked like magic.
Within five minutes he was almost asleep.
I peeked underneath and he had two fingers in his mouth and his eyes were rolled back in his head.

By the time we got to the grandma hotel, he was pretty well rested.
He also got to meet Aunt Cathy and uncle brad. I think he liked them.
He sort of played with his cousin ruby too.
We had a pretty great Easter.

Funny bunny

Bence makes me laugh everyday.
He has the most comical expressions, the sweetest little baby voice, and the most spunky little personality.
He is always busy.
If I had to use one word to describe him, it would be excited.
He's excited about everything.
His little arms and legs move constantly,
And he's always looking at everything around him. It's like he can't take it in fast enough.
He usually wakes me up by "talking" in his crib.
He speaks very emphatically. For a baby.

I realized that the best way to catch his baby-talk on video is to ignore him, and pretend like I'm doing something else while sneak-ily filming (unbeknownst to him)
Because the second I look at him, speak to him, or draw attention to him means total silence.
(On his part)

Bence is so much fun.
We have a blast together.
I just can't get enough of of his cuteness!

P.S. --> in some of the pictures below Henry tried to use one of our baby carriers...
Which didn't work out so well...mostly because Bence wanted to lean as far forward as he could the entire time. It didn't work out so well. (Remember how I said he's excited?)

P.P.S. --> in one of the carrier pictures Bence is smiling because he can see his reflection in our hallway mirror. What a ham, eh?

Sweet potato man!

Bence tried sweet potatoes today.
He's not so sure how he feels about them.

We had a god time though- he was plenty vocal and told me what he thought once he'd finished eating.

This boy beats any comedian I've ever seen.

He's so dang funny.

Old videos

Tonight i was playing with Henry's phone (since he commandeered my ipad)
And I found a few videos that I didn't know he had taken.
A few of them are older (I think pre-Christmas)
But I figured I'd pst them anyway.

It's so crazy how fast this boy is growing up! 

In some of these videos he looks so shrimpy.

Now he has lots of glorious chub in his thighs, arms, feet and fingers.

It's a good thing he's so cute.

Sometimes it's all that keeps me going thru the multiple wake up calls during the night.

Tomorrow we're going to try sweet potatoes.

We'll see if he makes a face this time.

; )

My little man is entering the world of (somewhat) solid foods.
I can't believe it.
He didn't really seem to notice any difference, but he did really good with his intro to sweet peas.

Five months today!

It's been a busy weekend.
We had a 4 hour visit to instacare on Friday (for husband)
Multiple trips to walmart (I forget things even when I make lists)
And of course...little buddy- who is always a handful - turns five months today!

Henry has spent the weekend eating goldfish crackers and drinking Gatorade. We had a fun visit to the doctors office the other morning (thinking Henry had food poisoning)- which he didn't, but he was still really sick. After taking his blood pressure three different times and finding it too be super low ( try 103/58) they made him stay for an IV to make sure he wasn't so dehydrated before we left. And they ran some tests on his blood. And all the results were normal. possibly rotavirus, or some other nasty stomach bug....sadly the husband has been laid pretty low the last 3 days.

In all other respects things have been looks good. Bence keeps getting bigger and bigger (and bigger!) and spring is in the air. We went for a walk the other day and it was so nice out I only wore flip flops and a tee shirt- no sweater! Friday night I came home from a walmart run around 6:30 and it was still 70 degrees out. I have little red Beatles hanging out on my back door (where the sun hits it all day) and most of the snow has melted. It feels like spring!

Bence has been a little chatterbox lately. He keeps waking himself in the middle of the night talking to himself. He has really vivid dreams. he will actually laugh and cry while sleeping- which is alternately hilarious and heartbreaking. Sometimes he has a hard time waking up from a bad dream and he'll make sad, pouty faces in his sleep while crying. It really is sad. So I just have to cuddle him all the more.

Bence is already so precocious. While sitting on the couch he'll look at me with a huge smile and jabber away. It's one of the cutest/ funniest things he does now. The only downside is how elusive he is on camera. I have at least ten different videos of him sitting and staring me down- as soon as he sees he's being recorded he turns into a mute.

I kind of captured a little bit of his baby talk in this video- but he caught on to me pretty quickly.

And just for fun, here at a few more videos.

 

We just love this little man so much. 

He has the sweetest dimpled smile, and the funniest little laugh.

He makes me want to hold him and cuddle him and never set him down.

(he also makes me want to never have children again and at the same time have ten more babies-- somehow...not sure how that works) 

We are totally, completely and irrevocably in love with this little bug. :)