Day at the Lake

Bennett had a play date with his friend Alex, whose parents have beach rights to a section of Lake Tapps. What's not to like about water and sand and some trucks to move it all around?

Here Ben was seeing what it looked like when he plopped wet sand into the wave.

Getting dirty.

These little guys get so excited to see each other and play. Ben tells me " I make Ben happy." I'm happy to oblige.

Ben's New Friend Arrives!

So Ben's one of a kind "friend" showed up in the mail today. It was a bit of a wait because it was custom made, but well worth it. We figured that if we were to get Ben a doll, it should be a very special one, and Christina of Bamboletta Dolls (http://bamboletta.com/) certainly delivered. It was just what we envisioned, and Ben absolutely loves him.

More Father's Day . . .

Father's Day

So Grandpa Jim came to visit us this Father's Day weekend. We totally lucked out with the weather and took advantage of such a beautiful Sunday by visiting a neighborhood playground.

It's Almost June!

Ok, so the first shot is just a goofy photo of Ben eating breakfast. Craig was being thoughtful and took some photos of Ben so that I could show him off down at Sara's baby shower.

The 2nd and 3rd shot are closeup cute shots of Ben. We actually took them because, if you look close enough, Ben has a rash and we wanted to document it. We are still not sure what he had a reaction to--the pediatric nurse thinks it's probably a combo of sun and something he's sensitive to. We will have to keep an eye out as summer progresses.













This last shot of Ben needs a little explaining. He very consciously arranged the objects below. He obviously had some preconceived idea of what he wanted to do. Maybe he'll be a sculptor :)

More of the same

I wish I could send these all at the same time. Here's another shot of Ben and Alex drawing. The 2nd shot was just a cute one of Ben. The last is of "my boys" hanging out on the only sunny warm day we have had so far during this rather bleak and frigid spring

Last week in Ben's Life ...

First shot is of Ben playing at my art table. He gets a kick at sitting on Momma's tall chair and checking out all the cool, messy supplies.

Second photo is Ben and Alex reading a book together--not the first time they've been caught doing this--Alex came to Ben's daycare for a week and did this there too--Ben was quite sad to see Alex go back to his regular daycare.

The third photo is Alex and Ben playing--pretty self explanatory.

The next shot is Ben showing Alex the ropes of drawing on an easel.