I didn't do so well blogging every night this week, did I? :-(
Last weekend we took a 4-mile hike down to a river and had a picnic. Ben did fine in the backpack on Tim's back, and loved throwing rocks in the river. I'm not sure a very sedentary, 7-months-pregnant woman should suddenly take a 4 mile hike at altitude, but I guess I did no harm. I felt fine, really, except for ligament pain.
Did I already say that Grammy Pat brought her rocking chair to us and Ben immediately claimed it as his? So now it's Daddy in his chair, Mommy on the couch and Bennie in his rocker/recliner. We've had popcorn a couple of times and it would be fun to have a picture of the three of us in our own chairs with our own bowls of popcorn, watching Madagascar. Madagascar is borrowed from the library and has been watched so many times here at our house in three weeks, it is deteriorating. Ben calls it "Ka-car."
I'm not sure where Ben learned to shush, but he has shushed me several times. He puts his finger horizontally across his mouth instead of vertically, which is cute. We were all three playing with his Fisher Price hammer toy and Tim and I started singing "If I Had a Hammer." Tim stopped singing and I kept going and Ben turned to me and shushed me. Tim's singing is ok, but my singing is bad enough to shush. :-)
That same night, Benny threw the plastic hammer at me, not sure why, and Tim and I both scolded him and I said he gave me an owie. Ben waved his hand dismissively at me and said "berder" (better).
Ben can count to two, but he says "two, one" instead of "one, two." If he counts further, he just continues: "two, one, two, one, two" etc. Last night there were two spiders in his room, and he saw only one. He ran out to the living room in a panic, "Da-ee, Da-ee! Pi-er! Pi-er!" and Tim wasn't in the living room. I said "look in the kitchen," so Ben ran to the kitchen and got Tim. They ran back together to his room, and I pointed out the second spider to Ben. He said "Two! Two pi-ers! Two, one!"
We named our fox friend Olivia, after Ben's little farm friend we haven't seen since we moved from the farm. Tim has another video with Ben sitting on the porch and Olivia is out in the yard. Ben says "'mon Bia!" and motions to her to come to him, and then pats the porch next to him, for her to come sit. How sweet. Tim will probably load it soon.
Ben hates having his diaper changed these days (I guess he's never really liked it). He'll say "No dapper!" and when I change him and get him dressed, it's just a chorus of "No Mama no Mama no Mama!" I like to sing along with him.
Benny invented a game called "yerkle." I take a pile of glass florist buttons (not sure what they're called - they go in the bottom of vases, etc), make an outline of a circle with them, and then Ben crashes the circle and bangs them all with a car. Then I make a square and a triangle and a snake and he repeats it over and over. Great fun.
Ben needs a diaper change, so more later!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Hmmm.. what to write about!? BEN!!!!!
This is the window over our bed- it looks out over the mountains and Ben loves to look out.
Benny went through a very brief stage of wanting gloves on his hands and/or shoes on his hands.. he slept all night with a pair of boots on his hands!
Sweet mug.. Ben's that is!
Our new friend..
Benny went through a very brief stage of wanting gloves on his hands and/or shoes on his hands.. he slept all night with a pair of boots on his hands!
Sweet mug.. Ben's that is!
Our new friend..
Fun stuff lately
Tim is going to try to get me to blog every night for a few minutes. We'll see how that goes.
Fun stuff lately:
- When someone gets hurt, including himself, Ben gives a little pat and says "better" (berder). He hit me over the head with something and it really hurt. I told him he'd given me a big owie and he smiled and patted my head and said "better." I guess he got that from us when we try to minimize his hurts and say "oh, it's all better now."
- Ben loves to play with the round window upstairs. It opens and you can look out over the neighborhood and smell the alpine smells (can't wait until summer - sleeping with the window open!). I accidentally left the window open and we went downstairs and then heard a very strange distress meow. I ran upstairs and saw that Pippi and jumped/fallen out of the window!! Luckily the bay window roof is below it, so I was able to reach down and she reached up and I could grab her. I came down and told Ben and we laughed and laughed. The next day, and a few days later too, out of the blue he laughed and said "Winnow Pippi!!" I thought it was cool that he remembered a specific event.
- He hates our new commute, mostly because in the morning the sun gets in his eyes every other curve in the road and none of our window shades work very well. On the way home he is just antsy and hungry. Lately he has been making plans about what he'll do with Daddy when he gets home, which I think is so cute. Maybe it's because I have been saying "We don't have any milk in the car, we'll have to wait until we get home and Daddy can get some for you." So one day he spent the whole commute saying "Da-ee wa-er" and holding his squirter and then when he walked in the door he said it again and Tim went to fill up his squirter with some water and all was well in the world. This week he said "Da-ee neo" and I couldn't tell what he was saying until I saw he was holding up one finger that had a big hangnail on it. So he walked in the door saying "Da-ee neo" and I brought Tim the nail clippers and they took care of it.
- When I'm going through papers or sorting junk mail Ben loves to help me recycle ("yicle") and take paper over to the recycling box. I have to be careful not to let him take other stuff though!
- His favorite movie this week is Madagascar and he asks to watch it every day and refuses to watch anything else. There is a dance song in it and we've convinced Benny to dance sometimes. Sooo cute!
- His spider reactions continue and I'm ashamed to say I egg him on. If I see a spider and he doesn't, I'll point it out and watch him get all excited and call for "Da-ee pi-er!" over and over. Tim has been catching them and letting Ben look at them in his hands before putting them outside. We all say "Bye pi-er!" So I don't think he's really scared of them, maybe he just likes to watch Tim take care of them. Maybe it makes him feel safe. I was always glad that my Daddy, and then Tim, were there to take care of the spiders.
- Every night at dinner, he makes such appreciative sounds when he eats. Either "yummy" or just "umm." I guess he got it from us when we try to make things look and sound appetizing, but it seems like he's a polite little Italian boy telling his mom her cooking is great.
- We drove all the way downtown to a pediatric orthopedic specialist yesterday and Benny had three more x-rays. The Dr was nice but he spent only a few minutes with us explaining that there was nothing to be done about his overlapping toes until his teenage years when we might want to consider surgery. He says braces don't do anything and just make sure his shoes are roomy enough. Good info, but it seems like our primary pediatrician could have consulted over the phone with him. He did seem to want to make sure it wasn't a sign of cerebral palsy and maybe he did need to see Ben in person to be sure of his prognosis.
- We had a playdate at our house and I said "Ben, your friend is here!" He walked out the front door and said "Come in!" ('min) and then pointed inside and said "Home."
- Sometimes he'll walk around the house saying "O-kay. O-kay," with the emphasis on the "kay" like he's trying to settle or decide something. He says "broken" very well and turned to Tim one night to say "Copper broken" when a helicopter crashed on a movie. For some reason, open has been "ope" but lately he has been saying "open" a little more. We had burritos the other night and he kept whining, "part, part!" It took us a while to figure out he was saying "My burrito is falling apart." And he is finally getting please and thank you a little bit. He still won't say please without being prompted, but often he'll say thank you unprompted and it is so sweet! He said it to Tim a lot before he said it to me. If Tim got him a drink or a snack he'd say "tiku Da-ee." I lifted him over a little fence in our yard to help me cut the grass and he said "tiku Mama." It was unexpected and so sweet.
More later!
Fun stuff lately:
- When someone gets hurt, including himself, Ben gives a little pat and says "better" (berder). He hit me over the head with something and it really hurt. I told him he'd given me a big owie and he smiled and patted my head and said "better." I guess he got that from us when we try to minimize his hurts and say "oh, it's all better now."
- Ben loves to play with the round window upstairs. It opens and you can look out over the neighborhood and smell the alpine smells (can't wait until summer - sleeping with the window open!). I accidentally left the window open and we went downstairs and then heard a very strange distress meow. I ran upstairs and saw that Pippi and jumped/fallen out of the window!! Luckily the bay window roof is below it, so I was able to reach down and she reached up and I could grab her. I came down and told Ben and we laughed and laughed. The next day, and a few days later too, out of the blue he laughed and said "Winnow Pippi!!" I thought it was cool that he remembered a specific event.
- He hates our new commute, mostly because in the morning the sun gets in his eyes every other curve in the road and none of our window shades work very well. On the way home he is just antsy and hungry. Lately he has been making plans about what he'll do with Daddy when he gets home, which I think is so cute. Maybe it's because I have been saying "We don't have any milk in the car, we'll have to wait until we get home and Daddy can get some for you." So one day he spent the whole commute saying "Da-ee wa-er" and holding his squirter and then when he walked in the door he said it again and Tim went to fill up his squirter with some water and all was well in the world. This week he said "Da-ee neo" and I couldn't tell what he was saying until I saw he was holding up one finger that had a big hangnail on it. So he walked in the door saying "Da-ee neo" and I brought Tim the nail clippers and they took care of it.
- When I'm going through papers or sorting junk mail Ben loves to help me recycle ("yicle") and take paper over to the recycling box. I have to be careful not to let him take other stuff though!
- His favorite movie this week is Madagascar and he asks to watch it every day and refuses to watch anything else. There is a dance song in it and we've convinced Benny to dance sometimes. Sooo cute!
- His spider reactions continue and I'm ashamed to say I egg him on. If I see a spider and he doesn't, I'll point it out and watch him get all excited and call for "Da-ee pi-er!" over and over. Tim has been catching them and letting Ben look at them in his hands before putting them outside. We all say "Bye pi-er!" So I don't think he's really scared of them, maybe he just likes to watch Tim take care of them. Maybe it makes him feel safe. I was always glad that my Daddy, and then Tim, were there to take care of the spiders.
- Every night at dinner, he makes such appreciative sounds when he eats. Either "yummy" or just "umm." I guess he got it from us when we try to make things look and sound appetizing, but it seems like he's a polite little Italian boy telling his mom her cooking is great.
- We drove all the way downtown to a pediatric orthopedic specialist yesterday and Benny had three more x-rays. The Dr was nice but he spent only a few minutes with us explaining that there was nothing to be done about his overlapping toes until his teenage years when we might want to consider surgery. He says braces don't do anything and just make sure his shoes are roomy enough. Good info, but it seems like our primary pediatrician could have consulted over the phone with him. He did seem to want to make sure it wasn't a sign of cerebral palsy and maybe he did need to see Ben in person to be sure of his prognosis.
- We had a playdate at our house and I said "Ben, your friend is here!" He walked out the front door and said "Come in!" ('min) and then pointed inside and said "Home."
- Sometimes he'll walk around the house saying "O-kay. O-kay," with the emphasis on the "kay" like he's trying to settle or decide something. He says "broken" very well and turned to Tim one night to say "Copper broken" when a helicopter crashed on a movie. For some reason, open has been "ope" but lately he has been saying "open" a little more. We had burritos the other night and he kept whining, "part, part!" It took us a while to figure out he was saying "My burrito is falling apart." And he is finally getting please and thank you a little bit. He still won't say please without being prompted, but often he'll say thank you unprompted and it is so sweet! He said it to Tim a lot before he said it to me. If Tim got him a drink or a snack he'd say "tiku Da-ee." I lifted him over a little fence in our yard to help me cut the grass and he said "tiku Mama." It was unexpected and so sweet.
More later!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
More Benny-isms
Any toy that doesn't work right needs "bowies" (batteries). And both "library" and "strawberry" are "bay-bay."
Ben likes to check each room for spiders on the ceiling and if he sees one he yells, "Daddy, spider!" It sounds more like "Da-ee pi-er!" He especially can't sleep if there is a spider on the ceiling or walls. Tim has tried to teach him not to be afraid, and in principle we hate to kill spiders. But there have been so many and Ben's reaction is so strong, we've kinda had to.
He's been sleeping really well lately, going to bed pretty easily and waking kinda late. For a few days he took a 2-hour nap each day. One night he even put himself to bed. He turned to me, took my hand and said "'mon, bed" ("come on, let's go to bed") and led me to the crib.
And for a few days he was a ravenous eater too. One day in particular he ate an unbelievable amount. Three pieces of pizza for lunch ("more pi-a!") and then nearly a whole box of macaroni and cheese for dinner. Of course when Grammy Pat came and made a pot roast, he devoured lots of meat.
I had a bad cold over the weekend and was so glad to take two-hour naps with him. At one point he woke up a little, turned to see me, smiled, and reached over to hug and snuggle.
One of his favorite activities is cutting. We have two slightly-less dangerous pairs of scissors for him and he loves for us to hold a piece of paper until he's cut it into confetti. We don't have a lawnmower or weed whip yet, so I asked him to come out and cut the grass with me. He says cut just fine, but scissors come out like "yaars." Tim came out to help us and Ben said "Da-ee yaars?" to say "Daddy, where are your scissors?"
He's gotten really good at wooden puzzles lately and enjoys them.
He's getting closer to saying Please and Thank you.
He likes his gloves and mittens all of a sudden, and enjoyed taking a bath with them one night. See photo. Another photo is Benny helping Daddy pound in loose nails on the deck, and one is Ben cutting confetti.
Aunt Wende sent him a birthday card with a little puppet coming out of the card - hard to describe. Anyway, Ben loved it and played with it nonstop until it completely fell apart. The puppet was a dog, but it was yellow, so Ben kinda said quack quack, and he loved grabbing our fingers with the puppy/duck's mouth.
He's having so many more tantrums lately, but many of them still just seem like heart-breaking frustration to me. He's still really sweet a lot of the time.
More later!
Ben likes to check each room for spiders on the ceiling and if he sees one he yells, "Daddy, spider!" It sounds more like "Da-ee pi-er!" He especially can't sleep if there is a spider on the ceiling or walls. Tim has tried to teach him not to be afraid, and in principle we hate to kill spiders. But there have been so many and Ben's reaction is so strong, we've kinda had to.
He's been sleeping really well lately, going to bed pretty easily and waking kinda late. For a few days he took a 2-hour nap each day. One night he even put himself to bed. He turned to me, took my hand and said "'mon, bed" ("come on, let's go to bed") and led me to the crib.
And for a few days he was a ravenous eater too. One day in particular he ate an unbelievable amount. Three pieces of pizza for lunch ("more pi-a!") and then nearly a whole box of macaroni and cheese for dinner. Of course when Grammy Pat came and made a pot roast, he devoured lots of meat.
I had a bad cold over the weekend and was so glad to take two-hour naps with him. At one point he woke up a little, turned to see me, smiled, and reached over to hug and snuggle.
One of his favorite activities is cutting. We have two slightly-less dangerous pairs of scissors for him and he loves for us to hold a piece of paper until he's cut it into confetti. We don't have a lawnmower or weed whip yet, so I asked him to come out and cut the grass with me. He says cut just fine, but scissors come out like "yaars." Tim came out to help us and Ben said "Da-ee yaars?" to say "Daddy, where are your scissors?"
He's gotten really good at wooden puzzles lately and enjoys them.
He's getting closer to saying Please and Thank you.
He likes his gloves and mittens all of a sudden, and enjoyed taking a bath with them one night. See photo. Another photo is Benny helping Daddy pound in loose nails on the deck, and one is Ben cutting confetti.
Aunt Wende sent him a birthday card with a little puppet coming out of the card - hard to describe. Anyway, Ben loved it and played with it nonstop until it completely fell apart. The puppet was a dog, but it was yellow, so Ben kinda said quack quack, and he loved grabbing our fingers with the puppy/duck's mouth.
He's having so many more tantrums lately, but many of them still just seem like heart-breaking frustration to me. He's still really sweet a lot of the time.
More later!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
Benny's poor neglected blog!
Everyone who reads the blog was present at Christmas, so I haven't felt the need to blog. But I need to remember that this also serves as our scrapbook!
Random updates:
- Christmas was wonderful. I'm not quite sure if Ben understood Christmas, but he learned how to open presents and say "wow!" or "whoa!" He loved being with everyone and really thrives when he's with a large group of family. He learned Wende's name ("Winnie"), and said Karen's name ("KK") a couple of times. I don't think he ever got Grammy Pat (maybe it's too difficult), but he called Donna "Oma" and Albert "Opa" (Dutch for Grandmother and Grandfather). He would point to the right person many times when we asked him who was who. After Donna and Albert left, he walked around saying "Oma? Opa?" and that broke my heart. We got up really early to beat traffic on the trip home and a sleepy Ben cuddled with Aunt Wende until we tore him away.
- Grammy Pat made a wonderful Thomas the Train cake for Ben's birthday and Ben loved it. She and Grandpa Darrell came to spend his birthday weekend with us and Ben smiled big at her when he saw her. We had a housewarming party/birthday party and Ben played hard with two other toddlers, a young boy, and a preteen girl. He was really exhausted by the end of the night - having terrible tantrums when someone else played with his toys, and he slept until 9:00 the next morning!
- Ben and I took a walk through the neighborhood this weekend and a really sweet dog named Sunny joined us. She stayed with us for more than an hour, while we went to the playground at the elementary school, and came home with us too. I was worried that she was lost, but her tag said she was a pretty close neighbor. Ben called her "Nunny!" and thought it was so hilarious when she did her puppy-lunge thing with me and jumped on me. Ben and I sat on the swings for a while and Sunny went to explore. Ben asked "Puppy doing?" which of course means, "What is the doggy doing now? Where did she go?" When cars went by I called Sunny so I could hold her collar. Ben started pretending cars were everywhere and yelling "Car Nunny!" I tried to explain that cars can give really bad owies to dogs. Ben agreed, saying "Car puppy owie!"
- Ben has so many words now, I guess I'll start reporting the cute things he says instead of each new word he learns. Tim said he declared that I was not home one day by saying "Mommy no home." He put his half-eaten apple in the fridge one night, closed the door, and said "Bye apple!" His standard greeting to people is a lion roar. Adults think it is funny, but younger baby girls don't like that too much. Tim's name has changed from "Dad-dee" to "Daee" and I'm often "Mama" or even "Mom." He knows Pippi's name, but usually calls both cats "Meow" and forms sentences by saying, "Meow achy" which means "Let's cover the kitty up with my blankie." When he is frustrated, he gets prepositions mixed up, saying he wants his gloves "up" and his cup "off." He says "More mook" or "More wa-er" and more anything else with a certain cute inflection. If he's extra desperate, he'll get that mixed up too: "Wa-er more." He'll repeat almost any word we say, but we still can't get him to say Please or Thank You. I don't understand that. His S is improving a little too. He can say S at the end of some words, but not at the beginning of words.
- I had a small reunion with two of my library school classmates when one flew down for a conference and the other drove down from Wyoming. At the end of the night, Ben cuddled up with Anne on her hotel bed, covered her up with his blankie (which we had because it was freezing), and said "Bye bye Mom!" and gave me a smile that said he knew he was being silly.
- He still points out letters and pretends to read them. His collection of letters has grown from "e, e, e" to "b, o, r, m, a, e" and some others and he says them over and over.
- As soon as he turned 2, he gained some 2-year-old behaviors, unfortunately. He's definitely more frustrated and impatient with us and the world, as 2-yr-olds can be. I put a sock on his foot when he wanted to be barefoot on one foot and he cried pitifully for 15 straight minutes. Today I took his glove off so he could eat and he screamed and screamed, "Gov on! Gov on!" He doesn't have much patience for shopping or restaurants anymore either. He pushed a younger girl at a recent get-together and gets furious when other kids play with his toys. We are really unhappy with that behavior and will have to research how to deal with the pushing.
- One of his favorite "games" in our new house is to throw things over the balcony. The game is called "Down." I let him do it because he enjoys it so much (he'll actually listen most of the time when I tell him one thing CANNOT go down and another thing CAN), and I just spend lots of time bringing things back upstairs.
- He still loves to stand on a chair at the kitchen sink and play with water. He drags the chair across the kitchen himself, gets up by himself and calls it "Grr" (stir) or "hep me" (help me, or helping Mommy with dishes).
- His favorite movie this month is Lion King and he calls it "Roar kin." Get it? Just like Meow means Cat, Roar means Lion!
- Benny has developed what I hope is a short-lived aversion to the outdoors! He'll take walks with me in the stroller most of the time, but he sometimes refuses. I took him on a hike in the backpack during one of the gorgeous days last week and we stopped for a little picnic. He refused to leave my arms and was afraid of the flies. I hope he goes back to loving the outdoors real soon.
- We watched a movie last night and one of the kids had a hat like one of Ben's. I pointed it out to him and he walked over to the hat basket, pulled it out, put it on his head, pointed to the TV and to his head and said "Hat. Hat."
I promise to do better with updates!
Random updates:
- Christmas was wonderful. I'm not quite sure if Ben understood Christmas, but he learned how to open presents and say "wow!" or "whoa!" He loved being with everyone and really thrives when he's with a large group of family. He learned Wende's name ("Winnie"), and said Karen's name ("KK") a couple of times. I don't think he ever got Grammy Pat (maybe it's too difficult), but he called Donna "Oma" and Albert "Opa" (Dutch for Grandmother and Grandfather). He would point to the right person many times when we asked him who was who. After Donna and Albert left, he walked around saying "Oma? Opa?" and that broke my heart. We got up really early to beat traffic on the trip home and a sleepy Ben cuddled with Aunt Wende until we tore him away.
- Grammy Pat made a wonderful Thomas the Train cake for Ben's birthday and Ben loved it. She and Grandpa Darrell came to spend his birthday weekend with us and Ben smiled big at her when he saw her. We had a housewarming party/birthday party and Ben played hard with two other toddlers, a young boy, and a preteen girl. He was really exhausted by the end of the night - having terrible tantrums when someone else played with his toys, and he slept until 9:00 the next morning!
- Ben and I took a walk through the neighborhood this weekend and a really sweet dog named Sunny joined us. She stayed with us for more than an hour, while we went to the playground at the elementary school, and came home with us too. I was worried that she was lost, but her tag said she was a pretty close neighbor. Ben called her "Nunny!" and thought it was so hilarious when she did her puppy-lunge thing with me and jumped on me. Ben and I sat on the swings for a while and Sunny went to explore. Ben asked "Puppy doing?" which of course means, "What is the doggy doing now? Where did she go?" When cars went by I called Sunny so I could hold her collar. Ben started pretending cars were everywhere and yelling "Car Nunny!" I tried to explain that cars can give really bad owies to dogs. Ben agreed, saying "Car puppy owie!"
- Ben has so many words now, I guess I'll start reporting the cute things he says instead of each new word he learns. Tim said he declared that I was not home one day by saying "Mommy no home." He put his half-eaten apple in the fridge one night, closed the door, and said "Bye apple!" His standard greeting to people is a lion roar. Adults think it is funny, but younger baby girls don't like that too much. Tim's name has changed from "Dad-dee" to "Daee" and I'm often "Mama" or even "Mom." He knows Pippi's name, but usually calls both cats "Meow" and forms sentences by saying, "Meow achy" which means "Let's cover the kitty up with my blankie." When he is frustrated, he gets prepositions mixed up, saying he wants his gloves "up" and his cup "off." He says "More mook" or "More wa-er" and more anything else with a certain cute inflection. If he's extra desperate, he'll get that mixed up too: "Wa-er more." He'll repeat almost any word we say, but we still can't get him to say Please or Thank You. I don't understand that. His S is improving a little too. He can say S at the end of some words, but not at the beginning of words.
- I had a small reunion with two of my library school classmates when one flew down for a conference and the other drove down from Wyoming. At the end of the night, Ben cuddled up with Anne on her hotel bed, covered her up with his blankie (which we had because it was freezing), and said "Bye bye Mom!" and gave me a smile that said he knew he was being silly.
- He still points out letters and pretends to read them. His collection of letters has grown from "e, e, e" to "b, o, r, m, a, e" and some others and he says them over and over.
- As soon as he turned 2, he gained some 2-year-old behaviors, unfortunately. He's definitely more frustrated and impatient with us and the world, as 2-yr-olds can be. I put a sock on his foot when he wanted to be barefoot on one foot and he cried pitifully for 15 straight minutes. Today I took his glove off so he could eat and he screamed and screamed, "Gov on! Gov on!" He doesn't have much patience for shopping or restaurants anymore either. He pushed a younger girl at a recent get-together and gets furious when other kids play with his toys. We are really unhappy with that behavior and will have to research how to deal with the pushing.
- One of his favorite "games" in our new house is to throw things over the balcony. The game is called "Down." I let him do it because he enjoys it so much (he'll actually listen most of the time when I tell him one thing CANNOT go down and another thing CAN), and I just spend lots of time bringing things back upstairs.
- He still loves to stand on a chair at the kitchen sink and play with water. He drags the chair across the kitchen himself, gets up by himself and calls it "Grr" (stir) or "hep me" (help me, or helping Mommy with dishes).
- His favorite movie this month is Lion King and he calls it "Roar kin." Get it? Just like Meow means Cat, Roar means Lion!
- Benny has developed what I hope is a short-lived aversion to the outdoors! He'll take walks with me in the stroller most of the time, but he sometimes refuses. I took him on a hike in the backpack during one of the gorgeous days last week and we stopped for a little picnic. He refused to leave my arms and was afraid of the flies. I hope he goes back to loving the outdoors real soon.
- We watched a movie last night and one of the kids had a hat like one of Ben's. I pointed it out to him and he walked over to the hat basket, pulled it out, put it on his head, pointed to the TV and to his head and said "Hat. Hat."
I promise to do better with updates!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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