Who are you?

Who is this young man?!  Chopped off your curls and you turned from my babe to my little man.  You are such a stud and are rocking the new 'do like no one's business!

All time Fav

I might be the only adult  lover of blue bubblegum snowcones, but now I have a partner in crime to indulge in the sweet sweet yumminess of snowcones with!

swim party

We went over to our friend's house for a get together with all the families.  It was such a blast with all the kiddos around the same age.  Ben was swimming but was so distracted with being at a new house, with new toys.  We convinced him to stay outside and he loved jumping off the side of the pool and squirting the water gun.  I had chunks of watermelon on my plate, handed him a piece and he refused to eat it telling me "uugggghh mom, mustard on it!" There was no mustard, it was a seed!  hah We realized he needs the "puddle jumper" floaters and already ordered a pair off amazon, scared us to death when he decided to just go under. Fearless child I love, but not when he gives me a heart attack in the pool!  Tomorrow we are braving the heat, so Ben can see a real life parade.  He's been talking about all week when I accidentally told him we could go. Happy 4th!

tinkle star

Ben was on a streak of performing" tinkle tinkle little star" awhile back.  I failed to capture the performance in it's entirity but you get the shortened "I'm done performing mom" version below. 

muno!

My dear sweet Ben - you are fascinated with Muno and Plex (Yo Gabba) at daycare right now, you don't watch it at home or request to watch it but in bed at night you get so giggly talking about Muno and Plex. Daddy said your reaction was priceless when you found this shirt awaiting for you on the front door (a Noni surprise).  You play with the Muno toy at daycare but love to watch Wubbzy, Max & Ruby and all 3 Toy Stories at the moment.  Mommy and Daddy have all 3 Toy Stories memorized but you don't get sick of any, laughing at all your favorite parts!  

munOOOO!

it's a miracle i captured you non-moving
with the iphone. you posed!

Titleless

We started the weekend with a trip to "Homo-depot".  Ben loves the home improvement stores.  Test rides the mowers, ooo's and aaawww's over the big saws and the new discover are the little video tvs around for security. Let's just say, Home Depot's security guy got alot of Ben face time Friday night.... and Saturday morning too.  FINALLY our master bedroom got painted this weekend.  Out with the baby blue and in with, well another blue... but much more calm and soothing blue/gray.  Ben only spilled a SMALL POND of blue paint on our white carpet.  Noni and mommy calmly utilized the Hoover carpet cleaner and wah-la, blue paint gone... for the most part :)
Today Ben and I spent the morning watching cartoons and watering outside (daddy was sick in bed).  By 10am the heat was unbearable, even for Ben.  We cooled off with grapes on the back porch, he is loving green grapes, about the only thing he eats besides his staple of Cheez-its and breakfast bars.  I've given up on him trying other foods.  He is picky, extremely picky on his foods. Oh well, I am too :)  We ended the weekend with a quick dip in the pool and dinner at Grandma Sandy's and Grandpa Jim's.  Mommy and daddy ate too much of Grandpa's delicious ribs, while Ben nibbled on his cheezits.  Another great weekend to start a long, hot, windy week : )!

What's up lady friend.... she ignored him. I think her googles blurred her vision and that is why she ignored my sweet adorable son.

You will notice the stranger's feet in the lower right corner. I had to capture Ben saying hello to everyone who walked by him.  This boy has no enemies,  he loves everyone!

Wood surprise

I can't ever be surprised, I'm too snoopy and investigative.  But it happened.   And the results will last forever!  John had our good friend Lindsay McDaniel come down fromTulsa to take Ben and his pictures for me.  And of course the talented Lindsay didn't fail and got some adorable pictures!!  "Wood" is the 5 year present, so these pictures are for the wood frames... Daddy did good :)  I love how the space shuttle was included in these pictures.  Ben, to say the least, is attached to all things space related.  He flies that shuttle around and the best part is the landing... he slowly brings it down and makes this ruffling engine noise while shaking because it's" too much force" to control this shuttle landing.  Cracks us up!

While laying in bed one night, I asked if he had a good day and what he did.  He replied with this silly grin "Muno with Jacob and Iyla (his BFF's)... Muno, Muno, Muno".  Muno- he keeps saying this and each time he has that grin and tone of orneriness, what is Muno?!  I finally remember to ask his daycare teacher - she informed me it's Muno from Yo Gabba.  Duh mom! She said each morning they fight over holding Muno and Ben will hold him tight to his chest but when asked to share, Tabitha said "Ben is so sweet and is so willing to share with everyone and will take it to whoever wants it and says here you go".  Makes me smile.  He is SUCH a caring child.  He hates when other kids get in trouble, he stopped in his tracks at the pool when a kid was getting yelled at and said "whats wrong mommy, whats wrong" with this look of sadness on his face.  Of course at home, when he gets in trouble by us, he just yells NO at us and continues to be a maniac :) Love my maniac and hubbie for the best 5 year surprise!!