My Big boy!!!

So I can't believe it's been months and I haven't posted in forever!!! I have post I created and never even published in JUNE! But here is a Beacham Family Update!!!

For Halloween Rodney and Benji were "Lions and Tigers and Bears, Ohh my!" I was going to join them, but never got a Lion costume together. So we just used a stuffed Lion instead :) Benji became very skilled at picking out his candy and dropping it in his pumpkin :)


Here we are at REIC's Halloween/Trick or Treating party.
Here is my sweet little boy Benji!

Here is our new office space!

The most exciting thing for me lately has been watching my little boy grow up!! He is now 15 mo. old and is doing amazing things each day! He now walks like a pro, and climbs like a monkey :) He is also adding lots of new words to his vocabulary every day! His favorite new word is HI, he loves saying it and having everyone say hi back. He also loves to say
"ball" and "teddy", he mimics things occationally, but these are the only things he says regulary (besides mama and dada). Benji is still incredibly attached to his blankets (he has two matching ones, a green and a blue), particulary the tags. As you can see above, he loves smiling for the camera!

Rodney and I are excited, our Christmas present to ourselves was we got a new office. Not wanting to change the structure of our home, we bought some nice cubicle office space and put it in our living room! Now we are finally able to move the office out of our bedroom (which made it very cramped.

Also, for those of you who have not caught the announcements, Rodney and I are expecting Baby Beacham #2 in May of 2011!!! We are very excited to find out the gender in January!

Will I ever sleep again?

I was sad for little Benji because he was up the other night...well, now on top of it we both have nasty colds. I always seem to catch everything Benji gets. I really need to get my immune system up and running better! Seriously!

So Saturday night I was up most of the night with poor little Benji. Well because of my all nighter I caught a nasty cold (I think from Benji). And I have slept very little the last two nights. Okay, I'm complaining...but I'm tired!!!!! Last night my nose was dripping so bad (I know TMI) that is woke me up at least every half hour! ARG!

I am also starting to doubt if he was even teething. Janine says his gums were swollen, but I can't tell. But I bow to the expert! So poor little man has sore mouth and a cold. SAD! Anyway, while he is sleeping I am going to post some videos we have taken since we got our new video camera. YEA!


This one was so funny, he found one of my old Rainbow Brite pals and was just going crazy :)

A cute one with Rodney.

Benji spring pictures

So while my sister Valerie was in town we took Benji out front and snapped some "spring pictures" of him. I , of course, forgot about them until today. So here are some of the cutest ones!!

This is probably the only boy outfit I have ever seen in a store that I just had to have because it is SO cute! Luckily it was on sale so I could actually get it :)

Cool Dude

He's even learning to pose himself!

Sorry, I'm too lazy to turn this right side up :)

"PLECH" And that's what I think of Easter.

Christmas 2009 Seattle

I was looking back on all my previous posts and I realized that I never posted our christmas vacation to Seattle. Whoops!! Its hard to believe how small he was looking back at those pictures. So just 5 months late...here is our Christmas...

This Christmas we spend it Seattle with Rodney's parents. They were wonderful to open their home to all of us (15 total!). We had lots of fun in Seattle, we went to Pike Place Market, took a ferry to Whidby Island, learned to make some wonderful Thai dishes (thank you Suzi), and visited the Seattle Temple and did some work for our ancestors! We also got to spend lots of time with our family together! Here are some pictures!

Daddy and Benji getting on the Ferry!

Auraleen (Rodney's sister) and daughter Aubrey on Ferry

Benji in new Bumbo and with a Christmas present

Benji Santa :)

Our Christmas Pagent (Benji was our Jesus, but not in this pic, and Ruby was a sheep)

Benji posing with his presents

Baby Rambo!

So our dear little boy is already 8 months old. Its really hard to believe sometimes how fast time flies. It seems like yesterday I was in the hospital in labor....but maybe that's just the after effects. Anyway, our dear little Benjamin is not content with just crawling around, he is now pulling himself up and trying to walk around.

Since about 6 1/2 months he has shown a great interest in standing. He would crawl over to me and claw at my feet crying "mamamamamamama" until I would reach down and help him up. Then he would spend his next 10-20 minutes trying to chew on anything in reach. The computer...the camera...papers...and especially my cell phone. He was pretty good at balancing himself, but he just couldn't get to a standing position.

About 2 weeks ago, just after my parents left town, he suddenly began to pull himself up. Day 1 he figured out how to pull himself up, we congratulated him and cheered him on. We took lots of pictures, as parents do, and even filmed him with our new video camera (see below). But Day 2 was a surprise, that even all my years of child care couldn't predict. Suddenly my little baby boy turned into Baby Rambo! He was army crawling all over the house, standing up using anything available. Crawling over toys, under toys, using toys and stepping stools, yanking toys off the shelf, and just all and all going CRAZY! I couldn't believe it! What happened to my little boy who used to be content just staring at one toy and chewing on it. All of a sudden his play area has become a disaster area, a hazardous waste dump. Horror of horrors, I actually have to pick up after him!!!!! I just can't believe how quickly he is growing up.

On top of that, he has finally begun teething. According to my mom, my siblings and I were late teethers...about 10 months. So 8 months isn't too bad. Yes, I have heard all the horror stories of teething, but WOW! The first night wasn't too bad, you could tell something was up, he was up for a couple hours Friday night, but overall okay. Saturday he wouldn't really eat, and we found out his gums were swollen, so we knew he was officially "teething". But WOW, Saturday night was crazy. He slept until about 1am (about the time we got to bed) and then was up screaming until almost 5 am. He slept with me on the lovesack, and would fall asleep long enough for me to doze off, then he would wake up screaming. (and keep in mind that this was after tylenol and oragel). Around 5:30 he finally took a bottle and fell asleep in his crib. YEA!!! So I got a good 2 hours of sleep before having to get up for church. I would imagine that is what a hangover might feel like. BLLLLECCCHHHHH! And of course it was my week to teach Gospel Essentials, so I had to be in church ( no matter how bad a felt), and Rodney got to spend Sunday School in the hall with an extremely grumpy baby :). Luckily I have a wonderful husband who sent me to bed with earplugs while he watched Benji this afternoon. Allowing me to get 3 more hours of sleep!

Benji DAY 1

It's Bath time

Benjamin got a bath today after spitting up all over himself. (Then later Mommy got a bath after he spit up all over her! BTW, grossest thing ever, he spit up in my MOUTH!!! YECK!!!)

I had to put a couple of the pictures up because he is so cute in the bath. He is really starting to enjoy it! Splashing around and chasing his toys around the tub!! Yea for bath time!

Chasing his toys!!

Caught by surprise!

Cutest picture! Can you see the heart!!


Wow, look at all of those wrinkles!!! He's not even that chubby!

A visit from Grandma and Grandpa Wilke

Here are some of the wonderful pictures Mom took while she was here!!!

He really wanted to get to the camera!

This one is so my favorite!!! What a beautiful boy! He totally looks like he is posing!

I also like this one, he looks like some mischievous little elf!

Laughing with Grandma!



This last week we enjoyed a wonderful visit from Grandma and Grandpa Wilke (Mom and Dad). And its still weird to think of them as Grandma and Grandpa Wilke.

Dad was in town for a work convention in SLC, and Mom decided to come along and play with us!!! It was lots of fun!! We took them out for their anniversary Friday night when they arrived. We also had lots of fun playing Dance Dance Revolution on Saturday morning (too bad we didn't get any pictures!). We also went out to dinner with Bob and Shirleen, and Mike and Sharrie.

Sunday we had a nice dinner with some family! And we had LOTS of fun playing games. So much fun that we played much later then we had planned! We are so excited to have another fun game night in two weeks!

We took lots of walks in the Orem Mall, we also got to eat at Iceburg a couple times (Mom and Dad had to get their Iceburg fix while they were here!!). Yea for Triple Berry Shakes (Mmmmmm!!!) We also got to take a nice trip to the Temple (thank you Auraleen for watching Benji).

Best of all, Mom, Dad, AND Valerie are coming again in April for school/Women's Conference/Nathan's graduation!!! YEAAA!!!!

Growing UP!

So its hard to believe that Benji is almost 6 months old! He has been growing SOO fast! And he is eager to get moving! He is now getting up on his hands and knees regularly, and sometimes his hands and feet (in a triangle :). He is beginning to get around, he is much happier during "tummy time" because he can move around. Sunday he scooted 6 feet across our living room! Its not a full blown crawl yet, but he is enjoying his freedom!

The other day Benjamin grabbed his blanket and rolled, he rolled himself up in his blanket. When I bent down to uncover his face, this was the picture I got! I love it!!! It is on my phone and EVERYTHING! SO PRECIOUS!

Things are going well for us. Rodney is continuing to enjoy his job and is doing very well! We have recently lease optioned both of his homes, which makes bill paying much simpler for us! I am finally getting over the anemia that I had during the month of January, and I am feeling much better! Yeah for energy!

4 months already!

So its hard to believe that Benjamin is now 4 and half months old!!! Time has passed so quickly! Benjamin turned 4 mo. on January 4th! He is doing great!

At his 4 month check-up, Benji was 14.5 lbs and 16 1/4 inches. He is in the 35% for weight and the 88% for height! At his 2 mo. check-up Benji was in the 75% for weight. I asked the DR. was it a concern that he had dropped so much (he still gained a lb and a half) percentile wise, he said no, everything was fine. So Benjamin is a good healthy boy, very tall and skinny though!

Benji is beginning to learn how to scoot forward. When we lay him down for "tummy time" He will often scoot forward some by the end. He is a very stong boy and still loves to stand and sit up and look around. He gets mad everytime Rodney tries to lay him down in his arms. He wants to see the world! Benji is also very good at turning himself over (both sides) If you lay him on his back he is usually on his belly within a few minutes or visa versa. Tummy time is semi-pointless because if he doesn't want to be on his belly, he will flip himself over very quickly! He also likes to sleep on his stomach (he got that one from his mommy!) I always put him to sleep on his back (for safety) but by the time he falls asleep he is usually on his stomach.

Rodney and I are enjoying watching him grow so quickly! He as a very cute little laugh, and like all boys seems to enjoy potty sounds the most :) He also takes after his dad in that he likes to look at computer/ tv screens, he loves the bright lights and changing pictures. He also loves my cell phone while I talk to people. He has hung up on some people by grabbing the phone while I talk. (So if I ever hang up on you, most likely it wasn't me!!)