9 Months & Unplugged!

We keep getting asked what is new with Benjamin, so I guess it is time to write more :).  For starters, Benjamin is 9 months old!  He had his regular check-up with the Pediatrician today and we learned that our miracle boy just keeps surprising us...he is at 42% for weight and 47% for length!  Considering that he was at zero in June, this is amazing!  His doctors/dietician are very pleased (and if you haven't guessed so are his parents. :) )

Medically speaking, he is also doing really good.  His digestive system still gives him fits and he still has problems with a sore belly (many articles of our clothing, lots of carpet, and a bean bag can attest to this.)  So when is that age where they stop puking, again???


New foods!  Benjamin's first non-milk food was...prune juice!  Yum :)  The dietician recommended it for helping his system move along.  Last weekend he enjoyed his first rice cereal, which he seems to enjoy and today he had part of an orange in his Munchkin fresh food feeder (great invention!) and he loved it!  Messy, but fun.

Christmas lights!  Benjamin loves lights and to have a tree in his living room all lit up is simply magical.  I love to get him up from a nap and watch his face go from sleepy to bewildered at the sight.  I decorated with sparkling snowflakes on the ceiling that catch the light which he enjoys too.

Unplugged?!?  A couple weeks ago we decided that it was finally time to let go of the monitor that measured his heart rate and oxygen saturation.  It had been months since he had real drops and even then he didn't need assistance.  Honestly, we were the ones who needed it, not Benjamin, and we finally weaned ourselves off of it (with the help of an apnea mat under his crib mattress :).  It was mixed emotions for me - on one hand we were letting go the last "attachment" and yet on the other it felt like a piece of my security was gone.  I had to (and still have to) stop and remind myself that this boy is in God's hands, and He has brought him so far.  In Psalm 139 He reminds me over and over again that before Benjamin was even a thought, God knew how many days he would have and our having the monitor or not having it will not change that.  That simple truth is the only reason I can sleep at night...thank you, God.

Jamie