1.25.2015

Getting his peepers checked!

Bouncing with his friend Holly

That hair is out of control!

1.16.2015

1.3.2015

Our first post of 2015!

Here are some funny things that Ben is saying/doing lately:

When he wants to do something, instead of asking, he says, "I thought I could jump in my bouncy house/play ABC Mouse/ride my tricycle/...?" (except he pronounces it "fought").

 

"I'm finking" is what he says while scratching his chin and tilting his head. 

He loves to pretend. This week he is constantly saving us or himself from hot lava and a bearwolf. 

He still calls candy "trick or treat."

Sometimes he calls us "MawDad" when he's in a hurry and can't take the time to distinguish between us. 

He is not shy. When he sees another child (or a pretty woman), he says, "I fink I'm gonna go talk to her!"

He loves his books and negotiates with me every night about how many we can read. He usually starts with 10 and whittles down to 5. Pete the Cat, That's Not My Puppy, and That Bad Rat are his favorites this week. 

He calls yellow "lellow". Super cute little speech impediments. 

When the wind is blowing outside, he says, "Oh, it's winding so hard out here!"

Even if we make him potty before we leave the house, he ALWAYS has to go to the bathroom at the worst possible times. I have endured some nasty bathrooms because of his indiscriminate bladder and bowels. And if it's a restroom with multiple occupied stalls, he still insists on narrating every bit of his process ("Ew, Mama. That was monster poop!" Or "Mama, my poop is hard. I'm eating too much cheese."). Sorry for that one!

Since he has turned 3, Ben has become much more "opinionated" and "spirited". These are euphemisms for stubborn and loud. We try to remember to pick our battles. There have been more time-outs in the past 3 months than there were in his previous stages. He thinks that he is always right, and he could argue the hind leg off a goat! I secretly like how assertive he is, but we have to rein him in when it crosses the line of being disrespectful. In fact, as I type this, he is fake crying in time-out because he swatted his daddy with a pillow in the back of the head. He's a rough boy!

Ben can count to 30 and he still recognizes his numbers in isolation. But he stopped saying "eleventeen" which was my favorite number! He knows a handful of sight words. He's learning how to sound out words also, and that is so exciting! 

Here are a few after-Christmas pics!