language!

Benjamin's sign vocabularly is growing at an amazing rate, and he now randomly (or so it seems) will repeat the occasional spoken word we use. And I think he understands *everything*, including words I don't think we've ever used to him, just around him. Today I commented, when Benjamin's hands were full of crackers, that he really needed a pocket to put them in. Benjamin immediately started looking on the sides of his pants for pockets (which he didn't have in what he was wearing at the time.)

nine teeth!

Baby's first molar. It looks to be pretty much all the way through the gum. I can sort of feel the others, but they are nowhere in sight for now.

EDIT: Now two more appear to be very slightly protruding from the gums.

When the to-do list over-runs the whiteboard...

...clearly it is time for a bigger whiteboard.