Ben had a great weekend over at my Mom's. He loves spending time with Aunt Kelly. Every time she leaves the room he yells "KELLLLYYYY". It's super cute.

We took him out to the toy store in Jackson that is Awesome. He picked out a new taxi and a ChooChoo conductor hat. It's the first hat he really likes to wear. It's reallllly cute.

Book Sharing Monday

The Wiggle'n Giggle Book

It's an oldie. We got it from James' mom.

You stick your fingers through to make hands and legs for the different characters on the pages. Ben thinks it's really fun.

Grandpa's in town, it finally feels like summer :)

Ben tried out his new cereal bowl with the built in straw this morning. :) I always give him a straw with his cereal to suck up the milk, and then I found this bowl and was disappointed that I didn't invent it. It's awesome.

After breakfast Ben and I drove out to Manchester. My Grandpa arrived in town for a 2 week visit. My mom took today off to have some family time. We all went to Chelsea, it's their 175th anniversary celebration this weekend and they had all kinds of awesome stuff going on that Ben could participate in.

Colors the Clown was there with her posse of animal friends, including a pig in a tutu, a chihuahua (also adorning a nice tutu), baby rabbits, a peacock, a cockatoo (or something like that) (the cockatoo should have had a tutu too it would have been a cockatoo in a tutu, which would have been pretty rad.)

There were a couple McDonald's characters there too, and surprisingly Ben ran right over to them to say HI!

They had these big tubs of bubbles and big dippers, I'll have to find something like this, cause Ben could do it himself and Loved it! A guy from the newspaper took his picture, hopefully he'll actually be in it this time.

It was a good day.

Book Sharing Monday

Book Sharing Monday June 22

This is an awesome Sesame Street coloring book from 1987

Picked it up from the Salvation Army for 33 cents :)

There wasn't ANY pictures colored yet.

!!









And I especially loved it back when Bert & Ernie took showers together
<3

Wowza Ben!

Today was an.... interesting day...

Got up early, started the day, put Ben down for a nap around 10:30, he didn't actually fall asleep until 11, we were due at Kristen & Allie's at 12:30, so I got up and started lunch and turned on the TV to wake Ben up around 12. I figured he'd be fine and have another nap later after we played. We stopped for gas, got a drink, and he was totally excited to go over to "Play!" at Kristen's...

We get there, everything seems fine,

and then...

Ben wigged out.

Not sure why, I assumed he was tired, we bolted to avoid any accidents with Ingrid and Allie.

He didn't fall asleep again this afternoon. He seemed Ok. He was very demanding with me, but not super scary cranky.

Maybe he just wasn't in the mood to share.
I get it.
I've been there.
Maybe that's where he picked it up from. :-P

Allie gave Ben a really cute Thank You, and Amber brought Ben a prize ( a book you might just see on an up-and-coming Book Sharing Monday) that he made me read over and over this evening.

Kids are strange.

There are no pictures to commiserate this day.
Is that the proper usage of "commiserate"?? I dont' know. Whatever.

Deminski & Doyle!

Oh jeeze,

I was quoted on Deminski's blog.

I used to love listening to D&D on 97.1 on my drive home from work, then 97.1 became a sports station so I lost D&D. But then I found Deminski's blog, and was surprised to find out that they are back on the radio and I have been missing it! SO I commented on his blog, and he wrote about my comment. I feel like a nerd. LOL

http://deminskianddoyleshow.com/blogger.html

June 17

Have you ever seen these "Baby" Bananas? They're really weird. I thought Ben would think they're fun, and he does, but I don't even want to try them, they just seem really weird.

We went and picked up a little pool the other morning, the day never really got that hot, but after finger painting, and rinsing off with the hose Ben ended up in the pool anyway.

- Shopping in Meijer, found a magnifying glass :)

- Finger Paining

Just look at the roses!

- He's been naked in the backyard a lot lately, I've been able to collect a whole photo album of naked water gun shooting to show his future girlfriends. This is the ony one that doesn't show his full package :) LOL Poor kid born to a mean mommy




We finally made it down to Top of the Park last night, it was empty, pretty depressing, we didn't stay that long though, we were gone by 7:15, maybe more people showed up after we left. Ben had fun jamming out and making new friends. A woman from the Ann Arbor News took his picture, I'm waiting to see if he'll be in the paper, or at least on the website! :)

Book Sharing Monday

Gerald McBoing Boing by Dr.Seuss

Is a favorite of Ben's. It's about a "Noise making boy" who doesn't say words, makes crazy sounds instead. I'm always asking Ben if he's Gerald McBoing Boing when he won't use words and does his "eh Eh eh" ....

Today must be Sunday

James has had a lot to do at work lately, so he's worked most of the weekend. I really need a mommy break, I guess I don't realize how much he does actually help out on the weekends.


Ben has started to love his Woof dog that I made him when he was just a little baby. It's SO cute, he wants to take him everywhere and take him for naps.



Our pictures arrived from Purple Frog!!
They came in a beautiful package, and Alicia threw in the wallets that Joan bought so I have pretty much every picture I wanted!





Check out the roses in the backyard!





Yesterday we went to Tristan's for Ellee's graduation party. I just LOVE their house. It's so huge, and I just love Jo's taste. The river is so peaceful, and their yard is so big. I think I might move in with them.


This is their cat Frisky who is like 15 or something. He is locked in the dog kennel at the back of their barn cause he poops everywhere unexpectedly. He has some weird growths going on, and his eye doesn't open right anymore. Aaawww Frisky.




Their swing was really low to the ground, so Ben had his first Big Boy Swing ride. He was pretty proud. So was I :)

What do you do with radishes?

So we got our first bunch of vegetables from the CSA farm this week. It wasn't much, but it was enough to overwhelm us with a bunch of stuff we don't know how to cook, lol. We got a bunch of radishes, spinach, lettuce, leeks, and some eggs.





So I started looking for recipes for some ideas of what to do with this stuff. (Allrecipes.com)


Tonight we had

Creamy Potato Leek Soup



(The pictures are from the website, I didn't think to take picture of dinner)


With a Bean Sprout Spinach Salad


Minus the dressing on the website, James attempted to make it, but it had an egg in it, and it turned out weird, so we just put some ranch on it. Haha.



It was SOooooo good.



These pictures are from the other day, I was letting Ben take pictures, and we were taking a bunch of self-portraits, he thought it was pretty hilarious.





We found a bunch of View Master reel thingys at a garage sale last weekend, for 10 cents. We already had a View Master at home, but it only came with one reel. So it was exciting to see dinosaurs and sponge bob in there.


My mom bought him this Sponge Bob suitcase at a garage sale too. It's really fun. Now we have to take a vacation so Ben can pack some stuff up.






She also bought him these awesome (size 9, haha) Spiderman slippers. He thinks they're pretty awesome.






On another note, I downloaded a sweet virus onto my work computer. It's pretty scary looking. I'm still trying to finish this slideshow for James' family, and I have encountered every problem you could ever imagine. My next idea is to move all 4 gB over to Joan's computer and try to burn it from there. I feel so bad about the whole thing, I've been working on it for a month or something stupid now, it should really be done.

Booooooooooooook Sharing Monday!

Today we've got Just Like Ernie


I Love, love, love old Sesame Street books. We've got quite the collection going. This book is about Bert trying to be cool like Ernie, it's pretty funny.