Anyone up for a Massage?

Brody and I just finished our Baby Massage class which is held here in Stirling at the Parent Link center!!! On their last day, all of the babies were given a cute t-shirt from the instructor, and we took a picture. Here are Brody's first friends - (in order, clockwise) Jet, Jaxon, Sophia and Shelby! Missing that day were Isaac and Tristan, who Brody has hung out the most with, but who were both sick at home that day.

Unfortunately, the class ends around Brody's cranky time - 11:30, so I promise I didn't pinch him right before the pictures, and he really does like being massaged... as long as it is not at 11:30 :)

Brody is finally big enough to hang out in his Bumbo chair!!! He is loving it!

He even gives me a smile if I can convince him to look at me!

He's my little cutie!! I love him to bits!!

Bennett Familiy Photos!!!

On Thanksgiving, Kim, Deanna and their families were able to come down to visit. Kim's friend, Rhonda Steed, agreed to take family photos for my parents while all of us kids were around. It was quite an eventful morning, with Brody making the firm decision to make it as difficult as possible to get nice family pictures. Rhonda worked her magic though, and these are just a few of the adorable pictures that she took for us. Lauren was a model in the making. Rhonda had her say "Hi Rhonda!" every time she wanted to take a picture. By the end, Lauren was saying "Hi Rhonda!" even when Rhonda wasn't taking a picture. Keira even did good, and was mesmerized by the flashing lights. Zach was a perfect little guy as usual, and slept through almost the whole ordeal. Thank-you Mom and Dad for doing pictures for us, and THANK-YOU RHONDA for having them turn out so great! Here's just a few of them.

Letters, letters, and more letters

"Mommy, why are you making those faces at me, you look rediculous..."

Looking like the little studly guy he is!

Brody's looking a little tipsy after getting his fill of the good stuff!

Showing off his good neck muscles. Brody will hold his head up for over 10 minutes now! Not much luck on the rolling over yet, but we work on it every day!

So, I found a bunch of treasures at the dollar store, and tried to get crafty with letters. Here are the magnetic fridge letters I created using mod podge and cardboard dollar store letters, and sticky magnetic sheets.

I also got busy making somw bigger letters with wood letters from Dollarama, scrapbook paper, wood stain and mod podge. I'm giving these to my sister, Deanna, to help decorate her girls' bedrooms. I think we'll hang them up with ribbon, in bows (maybe... any other suggestions?)

We've been invaded!

We've been invaded by aliens!! (or monsters, if you think it looks more like that)! Here's a look at Brody's first halloween costume! He didn't like being in it so much, and he especially did not like the sound of the velcro both times I had to take the costume off! We didn't go trick or treating really this year, because I wanted to be able to hand out candy, and Kevin wasn't home until after the trick-or-treating was over, but we did go over to grandma and grandpa's house early, just to show off his costume. I thought he was pretty cute!