Cheeks

I have been trying to get my life and my brain to slow down long enough to sit and write another blog post for awhile and it has finally happened. I'm here and writing and though I have over a week and a half's worth of life happenings to catch you up on, I'd rather talk about the events of my last 24+ hours. Yesterday my older sister Melissa and I made a road trip down to Kansas City to meet our very first (official) nephew Ben! Now I have to say official because there are a few really good friends with little boys that call me Aunt Sarah and I love them dearly but this little one really is the real deal...

Hitting the road-bound for Kansas Citay!!

So Melissa and I hit the open road when she got off work and headed south on our 6 hour drive. It was all smooth sailing except for almost getting blocked in to our parking space at a gas station in Missouri and taking a few extra detours when stopping to eat in Liberty, MO and we arrived at our destination circa 9:30 pm which was almost perfect because apparently that's when Mr. Ben likes to come alive for the night!

This ADORABLE little baby is a perfect mix of his mom and dad and has the cutest squishiest cheeks I have ever seen with the longest gangly arms and legs that seem to go on and on for days and I am in love with every inch of him! Now, as most anybody who has known me for awhile knows, I have never been much of a kid person. Luckily for me, with growing older comes friends getting married and having babies which has allowed me to practice the art of babies (in small doses of course). So thanks to Cannon, Kolt, and Brooks I felt like a professional Aunt and didn't shy away when he cried or hiccuped, or crapped his pants. I cherished every cryin', fartin', belchin', hiccupin' minute of it...but boy could that kid crap his pants! Woo wee!!

Last night we got a taste for Ben's true belching abilities (and boy could he belch! He'll be belching the ABC's before we know it ;)), but this afternoon Aunt Melissa got a taste of his pooping abilities! It was just after she finished feeding him a bottle, she was holding him in front of her on her legs talking to him while he showed off his guns and "mean face" when all of a sudden she heard and FELT the rumble of thunder on her lap. She started laughing as she told us about it until she lifted him up and noticed his explosion must have slid up his back, thru his shirt, and all the way through Aunt M's pants too!! Alyson and I lost it even though Melissa didn't find it quite as funny and handed Baby B over to his mom quick, fast, and in a hurry!

Multi-talented: Showing off his guns while pooping his pants...and hers! You're my boy Ben!!

So, while she went and changed, Mom went and changed the lil pooper scooper and then Aunt Awesome (that's me) got her bonding time in with the little guy :) While Cheeks and I hung out we discovered he reached a "milestone" (according to his mom any way). As I was changing his diaper, I was rather disgusted to discover a little raisin in his diaper...but as I started harassing Alyson about eating raisins as she changes her son's poop diapers she pointed out that It was Cheeks' umbilical cord!! How amazing is that ?! I was there to witness his umbilical cord falling off!! Haha I know I know--it's not really that amazing at all but Alyson seemed to make a big deal out of it, and when the day comes that I miss him saying his first word or stepping his first step (which I guarantee I will), I can say -"oh yea? Well I was the one to found his umbilical cord when it fell off! So how about them apples?!"

Anyway--I can honestly speak for Melissa and I both when I say that our hearts were stolen by our squishy cheeked nephew Ben. We cherish every moment we had this weekend and miss him dearly already... So here are a few of my/our favorite pictures from our evening/afternoon with Cheeks ❤❤

Squishiest cheeks ever!

My favorite <3 

Hanging out sleeping off his milk hangover!

Peace and blessings