This is the face of the baby......

This is the face of the baby who slept through the night last night!  Yes siree!  In his bed all night - 11:30pm to 7:15am - no waking up, no crying!  Yea for Ben!  The night before he went from 11:30 to 5am, then to his swing until 8:30am.  Have we finally reached the point of nighttime sleep again?  Or, am I speaking too soon?  Time will tell. Ben has been doing some smiling all along, but he has broken into big full face smiles these last 2 weeks along with lots more "talking."  He also did some "singing along" when I played the piano this evening. Hopefully we have another music lover in the family.  Matt is definitely a music lover just like Mom and Dad.

Brothers

Here is another picture of the boys that Matt asked me to take.  These boys are loving on each other.  When Ben has a choice between looking at Mommy and looking at Matt, he chooses Matt.  It is so sweet how Matt plays with Ben and talks baby talk to him.  I talked to Matt a little bit tonight about how Ben is going to be copying EVERYTHING Matt does as soon as Ben can.  We talked about how Matt is going to have to be a good example for Ben.  Maybe some of these early talks will sink in......

Small town grocery store - 1

Score 1 for the small town grocery store.  I went to MOPS this morning in Canadian, which is about 35 min. from Wheeler.  After a fabulous time with new friends, Ben and I stopped by the Lowe's grocery store in Canadian.  I picked up a few things we needed at the house, then headed to the checkout.  When I arrived at the checkout, I realized that I had no wallet.  The cashier kindly offered to watch Ben while I went and checked in the car for it.  Not there either.....ugh!  So I went back and told her that I couldn't find it, and we would just go if she didn't mind putting the groceries back.  She really wanted to help, so she checked with the customer service desk and asked if I could just mail them a check for my $10 worth of groceries.  They said it was fine.  So, she cashed me out and had me write down my name and number.  Then sent me on my way with my groceries. 


Pretty cool, huh!  Just have a feeling WalMart would not have said the same thing....not that I don't love WM, but I have to hand it to Lowe's: they made this Mom - who doesn't always have it all in the bag, if you know what I mean...- feel pretty good today.  [I should also mention, that 2 different men also offered to pay for the groceries.  (That was kind of embarrassing!)]