11 weeks old... yikes!

Benjamin, you are eleven* weeks old today!  Woah.

It's been a fun week and the weather just seems to be getting nicer and nicer.  Along with this, Benjamin seems to be getting better and better at sleeping, so we're happy for that!  Since my last post, we have in fact had two more long nights of sleep out of him, and while he often wakes up to fuss to himself for about 20 minutes at a time, he hasn't cried out crazily for us and he'll generally fall back asleep til the magical time of 6:45am.  I have a feeling these stretches will get longer soon enough, because after eating he'll usually go back down for another couple hours!  It definitely helps to have more of a routine, which sadly means these selfish parents will have to give up some of their late evenings occasionally to make sure we can get good sleep later on!

Nothing much new to report from Larsonland... just hanging out and enjoying time with our fun little guy.  He's still loving walks in the Baby Bjorn, which is great since it'll be such a nice weekend (80 in March!).

Sometimes he awakes from naps like this (melt my heart!):

Just hanging out:

He also got to meet his Uncle Jacob last night when we went out to Aurora to see the Bethel Choir perform.  We ate dinner afterwards and enjoyed catching up with the youngest Larson sibling :)

first time wearing real kicks

Benjamin actually did a great job during the concert (and thankfully I got him out of the room fast enough to avoid his embarrassingly loud bowel movement ruining the quiet part of a song!!) and finally fell asleep towards the end:

I've also been reminded just how extremely blessed we have been... as I was going through and organizing our TUBS and trash bags full of hand-me-down clothes, I realized this boy will be clothed for well over a year and in some pretty sweet threads too :)  Most of these awesome clothes are from his good friend Bode, whom Benjamin will be writing a very nice thank you note to when he's old enough.

Seriously, I'm SO in love with this little man.  His smiles are my favorite thing in the world, which sadly I still don't have many pictures of.  But soon enough!

* yes, if you read this post earlier, it said 12 weeks... no, Benjamin, your parents aren't crazy.  We are just apparently bad at keeping track of the calendar!