She's been practicing..

but is she ready to take on John?

Playmates

We babysat for some of Amy's friends. Oscar and Hailey are about Ben and Julie's age. Ben and Oscar had a great time together.

Bubbles!

Everything goes up into the fort

Outside and....

Cooking... Lisa bought me a new grill as an early Father's day gift. The one I had, had been limping along since it got crushed by a tree in the October storm a few years ago and had finally given up. I had put the new grill together on Monday and then we tried it out yesterday. This is a photo from yesterday. It was nice to be able to eat in the backyard.


Play on the computer... What you don't think a computer should be outside? That's why they are mobile, besides when then would you get this post. I have a nice signal from my router back here.

Yes, he is smart

I go to pick the kids up from daycare today, and Ben is in the backyard with his class. They have fences separating the different age groups, and when Ben sees me, he runs up to the gate and opens it and runs to me. The teacher looks at me and says, "Oh, He can open the latch?" The way she said it seemed part shocked, part amazed, and part why didn't you warn me. I tell her, "I guess so, but we do not have any latches like that, and that is the first time I have even seen him try to open it." She then says, "I guess he has been watching us." Have you not met my son? Do you not realize he is a very smart two year old? He acted like it was no big deal to open that gate, so they are going to have to watch it from now on.

Ready to go outside

Presents!

Birthday Cake

Of course it Rained

We got the back yard all set to have the kids play out side for Ben's party, and so a little bit before everyone gets here it starts to rain. At one point we decided that it dried out enough for the to go out and play.

Playset is up

It only took all night. Ben has been playng on it the past few hours.

Ben is just so funny...

At least Julie thinks so.

Playing in the Yard

I took the kids out into the back yard this evening. Julie was very content lying in the grass. She would play with the grass and then look up and see what Ben was doing and watch him for a while.

Ben's blanket, not Julie's

I put Julie down on a blanket and then went into the kitchen to start dinner. After a little bit, I hear Julie laughing and Ben talking. I go check on them, and Ben is circling Julie and tugging on the blanket every so often. It was his dog blanket, and he was trying to get it out from under her. Julie thought it was funny.

How can he get his leg up that high?

No wonder he has no problem getting out of the crib.

Movie Time

This is from the other night. We had just thrown a movie in and I was holding Julie and Ben decided he needed to sit with us.

Donuts

I walked Ben down to Paula's Donuts this morning. His eyes got real big when he saw all of the donuts.

I wonder what goes through his head

I found it like this on the fridge today. It was not like that last night and Lisa said she did not do it. What does this mean? Does he have something against the Bills?

Bad hair day or is it Suppose to be that way

I brushed Ben's hair this morning, and he was being very cooperative. Then as soon as I had put the brush away, he hand his hands in his hair messing it up. I sat down and he was in my lap messing up my hair.

It's a Payne Thing

She was not very happy when I took the computer back to do this post.