Baby Boy is growing up!

I just realized that Benjamin is almost 7 months! Wow wee his little life is flying by! I know I'm so that bragging mom but he seriously is the easy, most laid back, easy baby - so far...
Over the past couple of weeks he's started to find his legs (or knees I guess I should say) and is started to crawl a bit. He's not moving across the room yet and for that I'm thankful! I don't think I'm ready to chase a crawling, climbing baby! If you set a toy out in front of him he's pretty determined to get to it but then pretty content just to stay there and play. He's also able to go from sitting to on his tummy then back to sitting again. Oh, and I have a terrible confession to make - since I started feeding him baby food he gets it about once every 2 or 3 days! How terrible am I! It's just so easy to feed him his bottle then put him down to play and head off to take care of the others I usually forget to give him baby food! But now that I've made this confession I'll probably be more motivated to step it up :) But I must say, he doesn't look like a baby that skips any meals - ha!
Here are some pics of his new tricks!

On the move

And proud of it :)

Starting to hold his bottle on his own - of course he would rather me hold it but he can do it :)I picked up a johnny-jumper at my last consignment sale and he is LOVING it! I had one years ago but sold it after James and John-Mark didn't really love it too much but this baby jumps all the time! Whenever you are holding him he's trying to stand up and bounce up and down. His favorite place to be is in the doorway watching his big brothers and sisters run around outside - he's so ready to join them - ugh - he will before we know it!

Here he is going from sitting to his knees

And back again :)

This is a random picture but too funny not to share. Yesterday I found James just chatting it up with John-Mark while he was doing his business. He had even pulled up a little chair. No one is EVER alone at our house :)Another kind of random pic - this is the ONLY Easter picture I took! They all had cute little Easter outfits (Gracie in her smocked dress and all) but they quickly changed after church to get ready for our little egg hunt. We had a pretty low key Easter this year when it comes to the whole Easter bunny and basket of gifts but we had fun making Resurrection Eggs and doing other crafts.
Last random pics - this past Saturday was a beautiful day! The kids played outside all day and I got a sewing bug (which I haven't done in probably a year!) and set my machine up at the kitchen table so I could keep my eyes on them and sewed away. I really love to sew but just don't get to do it enough so it was a fun day for me :)

Gracie was excited too! She loves to wear dresses and spin around and say "I a princess".