My friend Sarah inspired this post recently when I sent a picture of Ben sucking on his pacifier – she asked if it was a new one, to which I replied that it was the same one he had in the hospital. I pulled up some photos of him sucking on the same pacifier in his first days of life and it’s astounding how much he has grown since then.
![{Ben was six days old here.}](http://keepingupwiththeallens.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160604_031213243_iOS-768x1024.jpg)
![{Here Ben was 15 days old.}](http://keepingupwiththeallens.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/20160614_184416276_iOS-768x1024.jpg)
![{This was Ben about a week and a half ago, so he was just shy of 12 weeks old.}](http://keepingupwiththeallens.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/20160820_195502000_iOS-1024x576.png)
It’s amazing to us how much he has grown – he’s more than triple what he weighed at birth and he is finally on the “normal” baby charts for his size. He sure is thriving!