Ben’s Blog

For those of you that have been completely out of the loop, our first son, Luke Benjamin Pharr, was born on June 1, 2007. He’s now a little over 14 months old. I posted his early pictures on Flickr and his later ones on Zenfolio. At this point I’m a little behind on both taking and posting pictures, but there should be some more up on the Zenfolio page soon.

Luke started walking about a month ago and hasn’t slowed down since. He had been flirting with the idea for a while, but never could get up the nerve to let go of the furniture. He’s fairly tall for his age, so reaching into drawers and on top of cabinets is no problem.

Right now his vocabulary consists of “dada,” “mama,” “out,” “bite,” and “hot.” There might be a couple of other words I’m forgetting. His favorite is “hot.” He knows the oven is “hot” and reminds us often. He understands a lot more than that though. If we ask him to put something in the garbage he’ll do it, and if we tell him it’s time to change his diaper he walks to his room. He loves to go outside and we don’t dare say “outside” unless we want to carry him out there. The same goes for “bath.”

On top of all that he’s a happy little guy. It doesn’t take much to get him laughing. He also loves to “dance” to “music.” I use the term “music” loosely because he dances to car alarms and pretty much anything with any sort of a beat.

On Christmas Eve of last year we discovered that Cassie was pregnant again. It was a bit of a shock. Liam Nicholas Pharr is due to be born via C-section on August 19th. Yes, that’s two weeks from today. They’ll be 14 months and 19 days apart and will be a year apart in school. We certainly didn’t intend to have two kids this close together, but we’re looking at it as a positive thing. With any luck they’ll be big buddies. We’ve talked to Luke about it, and he likes to pull Cassie’s shirt up and kiss her belly, but it’s hard to know how much he understands. It’ll certainly be an adjustment for everyone involved.

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