What we've been up to-

Birthdays...

Our dear cousins Charlie (10) and Maggie (1) share the same birthday. So we had two weekends of parties. Let's just say that Charlie ate his cake much more civilized than Mags... but they both had a ton of fun.

Strep Throat...

Ben also got his first case of strep throat. Poor guy was really sick. But, we found a cure - frozen bananas dipped in chocolate and sprinkles.

Zines...

Ben has been drawing and writing these cool little zines. Oh how I love them! He says they are Lego Star Wars and he reads the stories to us.

Sunday Afternoon Joy Ride

Grandad took Ben on his first ride in the convertible. When my dad took the top down Ben said "I've never seen it change before!" He told me they went really FAST...

But he got a little annoyed with me taking so many pictures. He's getting too cool for mom to snap so many pics. Well, I say too bad!!

Swimming Lessons-

It's hard to get good photos, but Ben started swim lessons last week. He LOVES them and told me he wants a trophy... hmm.

4-year Doctor visit

Today was Ben's 4-year well visit to his pediatrician. He's 38-1/2 pounds and 41-1/2 inches tall. I think we made quite the impression today - Ben's fingernails were filthy (from playing in the driveway before our appointment - of course I didn't notice until we got there), he had pink and blue ink stamps all over his arms / hands / legs / feet (a present in his Easter basket), his underwear were on backwards and he called his doctor a "silly sausage*." Thankfully our ped. has a great sense of humor and said Ben was in perfect health and a great, funny kid - phew!

*In Ben's defense we had been talking about the alphabet. His doctor's last name starts with an "S" so we were listing "S" words... strawberries, sausage, shoes, silly, sun, etc. But it was a little embarrassing not having the doctor know the whole story...

Two happy grandkids

Need I say more?

ABCs

We LOVE drawing with sidewalk chalk on the driveway! There's something I love about the impermanence of chalk and Ben's crazy graffiti drawings. BUT the other night when he wrote the entire alphabet in a straight line on his own I just had to take a pic. Pretty cool! The other photo is of his rocket ship going to space - complete with stars, planets and aliens.