A week of firsts

This was a really big week for Will. He got to see his first movie in a theater and his first baseball game (sort of). They show free movies on Wednesday mornings at the mall down the street from our house, so we took him to see Muppets from Space. He had a great time and sat through about 45 minutes of it, which I thought was really good. This week they're showing Wallace and Gromit, which Will has seen and likes, so I think we'll check it out on the big screen again.

We tried to take him to a baseball game, but we got rained out. Not that Will cared - he had a great time running around in circles and eating junk food - he got to try his first cotton candy. The Charlotte Knights are our minor league baseball team and they have a nice little stadium about half an hour from our house. We got raincheck tickets to go to another game, so we'll probably try again in a couple of weeks.

Ben had a first this week as well - he got to meet his great-grandparents and his Great Aunt Ann on Brian's side. We took a trip to Georgia and stayed with Grandma and Grandad this weekend and we took a side trip to visit Ma and Papa. Will loved the olf-fashioned Legos Ma keeps around - they're the tiniest Legos I've ever seen. Of course he loves any toy that he could potentially choke on, so he had a great time. Will was in a pretty bad mood the day that Ann came over, so it took him a while to warm up to her. But before the night ended he was banging on a steel drum and performing his repertorie of songs for her, including "Twinkle Star", "ABC" and "Dr. Suzuki". Ben loved his Aunt Ann and especially loved her glasses.

We had a great time visiting with Grandma and Grandad. Will got to play with grandad's battery-powered train, which was a huge hit. There were lots of train tracks on the way to Ma and Papa'a house too - Will has been on train overload this weekend! He would point out the tracks and keep a running monologue about "train tracks" and "crossing signals" and "better watch out, train comin".

Another first for Ben was that he actually OPENED HIS MOUTH for the spoon last time I fed him! He had sweet potatoes for the first time last night, and apparently they were a big hit because he kept opening his mouth up waiting for the spoon. I got so excited I started yelling for Brian and he came running over thinking something was wrong. Ben is on a real feeding frenzy right now. He's taking 5-6 oz bottles, which is a major step because just a few weeks ago 3 oz was his max. And he was tolerating me shoving bananas and oatmeal in his mouth but he wasn't very excited about it, so this whole mouth opening thing is a big deal.