Aunt Michelle Visits

Andrew's sister Michelle has been on the east coast, visiting from Seattle, for the past week and we were able to spend some time with her from Friday until Monday, both in NJ and also at our house in PA. She was nice enough to babysit for Benjamin while we were at Lauren's wedding on Friday and from the looks of some of the photos she took, Benjamin really enjoyed his time with his aunt!

Here's a photo of Ben just hanging out in his swing on Friday afternoon while Michelle babysat for him at my parents' house.

Once we were all back in PA, Michelle and I gave Ben a bath so here are a few photos from that. The baby really loves his bath now - he sits up in his infant tub, splashes and plays with all of his bath toys. I bought him a bathrobe last week that he looks really cute in!

Reading the Saturday paper with his dad:

He must have spotted something funny in the circular they're reading. Either that or Aunt Michelle and Mommy are making Ben laugh!:

Showing off all of his fun toys to Aunt Michelle:

Family photos (Barney too, in one of them!):

Having fun laughing, cooing, and smooching with Aunt Michelle!:

"It's so much fun to have a doting aunt to play with and hold me!"

Ben was in a fussy mood on Monday and it seems as if his (soon-to-be) teeth may be hurting him recently, so I decided to try giving him the vanilla-flavored Soothie pacifier that Aunt Loretta Martin had sent to us. Ben used to like a pacifier and then decided he didn't want one at all; some babies in the same situation often prefer the Soothies since they taste good. Unfortunately, he didn't take it too well last week when I first tried it but this time the new "binkie" seemed to be growing on him. He was biting down on it really hard and actually keeping it (somewhat) in his mouth so we're hoping he'll start to enjoy it so that maybe it can help soothe him when he is really starting to teethe!

Finally, Michelle and I did a little shopping on Sunday and found this cute Hawaiian print button-down for Benjamin at Baby Gap so we couldn't resist it (plus it was on sale so we really couldn't resist!). Here's Ben looking cute in his new shirt with some khaki shorts:

We all had such a good visit with Michelle and hope to be able to spend some time with her again very soon!