6 Months Old

The months just keep flying by... Grant is sooo close to crawling on all fours now, it won't be long before he is into everything. I was just thinking that I need to look through the toys around here to check for choking hazards, because this one puts EVERYthing in his mouth.

This was my own attempt at a professional 6 month photograph... lighting is never quite right indoors. You can see Grant's actual professional 6 month photos at the Flash Portraits website. Just type in "benson", click on "Katie Benson" and then enter password "grant". It wasn't the best picture day ever, but there are a handful that I think are really sweet.

On another note, for those of you that haven't heard, Mitchell tried out for the church christmas program and got the part of Joseph :) He has lots of practices at the church in the coming weeks and the program is at our church, on Sunday, December 14th, at the 10:30am service. I'm sure he would love to see in the audience if you can make it.

Joel continues to say more words everyday and usually surprises us each day with something... not ALWAYS something pleasant, but he always surprises us. It took almost 2 years, and it was a very long wait for me, but he is now calling me "mama" (he's been saying "daddy" nonstop for a couple months), which made the wait even longer. Little by little, his words are starting to come. Maybe it is the work with the speech therapist that has helped because he has really made lots of progress in the last couple of months.

I am still working on finding more bookkeeping jobs. It takes time, but there are lots of people keeping me in mind for the next time they give a referral and, at any time, I could get quite busy. I sent my first invoice in October, and received my first paycheck a couple days ago!

Also, Happy Birthday to Grandma Benson today!!!