Look!  Up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  No, it’s a plane!  No, it’s Super Ben!

I’ve been cruising the hallways in the guise of Super Ben in search of burps and soothing.

Today the Weiner family came by to say ‘Hi’.  They just came from Chico State, where Matthew attended an orientation session prior to matriculating this Fall.  (Betcha didn’t know I knew that word, did ya?)  Cousin Kristine got to relive her early parenting days while she held me, and Jordan even took a shot at it.  It was good to meet them.  I wonder how long it will take me to meet all of the family?

If my parents have their way, I think I’ll be a Boy Scout one day.  As you can see, I was prepared for every contingency on this recent trip – or at least very prepared for one particular contingency… which did come to pass… and well, my clothes did survive intact!

Today, Aunt Barbara, Uncle Steve, and cousin Casey drove all the way up from San Jose to come see me and visit Mom & Dad and have some lunch. They talked about lots of grown-up stuff that I didn’t understand, but it seemed like they enjoyed visiting!  While they were here, I think I did a good job of being on my best behavior.

Aunt Barbara also made me this awesome cross stitch!

Thanks Aunt Barb!

Today was a photoshoot in the bouncer.  Of course, I make it look easy here…

…but as these bloopers attest, this kind of thing is hard work!

Just another day at the office, ho-hum.  Actually, in addition to my usual mid and post meal burpings, today I got a visit from Jon & Nicole of Seattle fame.  They were in town for a friend’s wedding and came over to meet me!  We had a nice chat – they told me about my second cousins Toby and Haley, who I’m sure I’ll get to visit someday.  (I’ve already reprimanded my photographer for not getting a picture of my visitors!)

Of course, my engineer parents just dove into raising me – they must have thought that they would just figure things out as they went along.  Well, after a month they still haven’t figured me out, so they went looking for the manual…

… Denied!  (Ed. Note: What kind of a shoddy supplier wouldn’t include the instructions?  Ummm… don’t answer that question…)

This week I finally grew into (and got a chance to wear) this GREAT hat from Judy.  You can see how excited I am!

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Me and the cat, just chillin’.  Actually, if you can’t tell, I’m steadily gaining on him.  Pretty soon I won’t be the smallest member of the family.  On Wednesday, I weighed in (unofficially, at the new Mommy support group) at about 12 pounds.  Atlas only has me by 2 or 3 pounds now.

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The nurses at the new Mommy support group were astounded that I’m gulping down 4 ounces at each feeding from the bottle – and I’m only 1 month old!  Maybe that explains how I’ve put on 4 pounds since I was born.  Here’s Daddy, feeding me those 4 ounces…

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Here I’m sacked out (Ed. Note: Groan…) after a long day of keeping Mommy and Daddy busy.  Touchdown!

Well, I’m 3 weeks old now, and as you can see, I’m getting pretty comfortable. And Daddy is getting pretty good at rocking me to sleep in the glider.

Of course, Daddy seems to think that once I’m asleep, I’m fair game to make fun of (He’s mocking my “Eeeeevil..” pose…) . I suppose that’s a fair trade off seeing as I’m getting him and Mommy up at all hours of the night…

Here’s the Daddy’s eye view when I’m hanging out in the Moby. The Moby is warm and comfy, but sometimes I want to look around and see what’s going on!

Here, I’m practicing waving to my fans from the penthouse level on my custom made dresser/changing table high-rise. A big thanks to Grandpa Scherba for building me such nice diggs! Here I come, MTV Cribz!

Here I am making my video debut!  I think Daddy still has some work to do to figure out the kinks in the video rendering chain, but I’m sure he’ll figure it out.  Daddy didn’t mention it, but in the night-mode section, the room was pitch black!  The camera uses something Daddy calls “infrared” to take video in the dark.  Pretty cool!

(Ed. Note: The video is rendered to Windows Media Video format (apologies).  If it doesn’t play well here on the web page, you can download it here, and play it from your computer.  Also this won’t work in FireFox without the Windows Media Plugin installed – or you can use IE to see the embedded video (again, apologies), or use the download link.)

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Here I’m having a little quality face to face time with Mommy.  I like looking at her because she’s soooo pretty!

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Daddy says my hands look like his, but clearly mine are smaller.  Duh.