Baby Blessing

So much has happened since this little guy has come into our lives. Dad graduated from BYU at the end of April. Little Ben attended both ceremonies with me (Mom) and his grandparents. He behaved wonderfully. He was blessed on April 24 while everyone was in town for Dad's graduation. He had his dad, Grandpa Dick, Grandpa Sorensen, Great Uncle Steve Anderson, Great Uncle Dan Boles, Uncle Garrett Sorensen and Joe Finegan in the circle (Great Uncle Dave Anderson came in just as the blessing was starting). He was blessed that he would stay worthy to go on a mission and get married in the temple. He was blessed that he would be an important person in his family and a good example. It was simple and powerful. Dave and Diane Anderson lent us a little white outfit that Matt (Dad's little cousin) wore for his blessing. It was very cute and he looked like a little angel. We had a get together afterwards at our place (the basement of the McFarland's). That basement easily handled the 35 people that came that day. We had lots of family and friends. Grandma Dick and Great Aunt Diane organized most of the food with a couple other people bringing things as well. The next day all of the family left. We had 16 people sleeping at our house for that weekend. It was back to just the four of us. We started getting ready to move. We moved to Clearfield, UT that next Saturday, and Dad started a new job with Stock Building Supply. Ben had a pretty fussy day on Friday (the day we were packing the truck and finishing boxing everything up) - I guess that is the way things work. He is almost five weeks old now. He is a little growing machine. At his two week appointment he had grown a full 2 inches from what he was at birth as well as a half a pound, which is quite good at 2 weeks - they usually are hoping that babies are back to their birth weight at that point. He has been a good little guy. He gets fussy at night but for most of the day he is fairly content. He still is regular about eating. He seems to really like to lay on his belly or to be sitting upright. He is starting to focus better on us. I can actually tell he is looking at me sometimes. Yesterday he did his first actual smile as a reaction to something I was doing (and then Daddy too). It was super cute. I am so excited for him to be more social and interact with us - and this is the start. YAY! He has a cute smile, which seems to light up his whole face. Today we went to our new ward and he got all sorts of compliments. We do all we can to be humb

le when they tell us how cute he is....but we know they're right.