How we were blessed today!

Later, they tossed a foul ball up in the stands and the kid in front of us ended up with it. So he gave Ben his souvenier baseball from earlier in the night. Ben thought that was pretty special and carried it in his glove all the way to the car.

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Trying to stay awake. 9:15pm

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Our newest little smiley boy

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Ben at Orchestra Practice

Ben used daddy's extra mouthpiece and was even changing pitch while buzzing it--Impressive for a toddler, not yet 3 yrs old.

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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Ben got to play the Big Bass Drum when he went to visit Grandpa's band today.

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Ben and his new friend Yva had too much fun jumping on the bed today.

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Sunday, August 2, 2009

Ring around the roses

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Chick-fil-a has a new spokesman.

What does a cow say?

Eat Mor Chik-n...Moooo!

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Jesus Loves Ben

This is his favorite part of the song.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ben's First Memory Verse

Be kind and loving to each other. Ephesians 4:32

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Monday, May 11, 2009

Benjamin reading "Where The Wild Things Are"

Translation--

They roared their terrible roars, gnashed their terrible teeth, rolled their terrible eyes, and showed their terrible claws.

Meanwhile, he is showing his terrible claws and getting ready to tickle daddy.

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Ben learned how to shuck corn a couple weeks ago

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Ernie looks ok but I think Bert is a little concerned that Ben is driving.

This picture is a few weeks old but it was worth posting.

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Easter Sunday Pt 3

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Easter Sunday Pt 2

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Easter Sunday Pt 1

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Get In The Hole!!!

Benjamin also got his first experience at putt-putt last weekend. Look out Tiger.

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Wheee!

This was the Saturday before Easter at church. Ben had a blast in the bouncehouse for the first time.

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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ben and Daddy both got Ice Cream Headaches tonight

Chris's dad shared ice cream with him growing up. Now, Chris gets to share it with Ben.

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Friday, March 20, 2009

Eating lunch with Aunt Boo and Uncle Luis

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Benjamin likes reading his Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Book

He is making the clubhouse appear by saying "Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse...then lift the flap!"

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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Ben had fun at the picnic

We packed a picnic basket in Ben's wagon and walked to the lake (err...rentention pond) and ate lunch outside. You don't get many days this nice.

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Daddy and Ben on our picnic today

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Benjamin's Little Brother

Baby Aaron's Ultrasound 22 Weeks!

He now weighs 1 pound and 6 ounces. Apparently we are going to have another BIG boy. He is about 7-8 days ahead of the developmental schedule. This ultrasound was to rule out any major heart defects and the doctor only had positive comments at this point. Now we just wait for 4 more months to go by.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Playing Playdough with Grammy

After eating supper, Grammy got the playdough out.

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Ben and Charlie Farina

We went to Mississippi to visit Missy and Carlos and their 6-week old so Charlie. Benjamin is getting practice being a big brother.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ben got to play the Wii for the first time this weekend.

Obviously, it was dark and he was moving so fast that the picture was blurry. But you can tell he was having a lot of fun with it.

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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Benjamin's Nap Today

He was supposed to be sleeping in his bed. When we went to check on him, this is how he had decided to sleep. Almost hated to move him.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ben is going to have a baby brother.

We went to the Doctor today and found out that Benjamin's sybling is actually going to be a little brother. Benjamin is excited and is already calling mommy's belly Aaron. We thought the ultrasound pictures were good enough to share so we scanned them in and put them together in a video. Enjoy meeting Aaron Christopher Bouton...ETA-June 28, 2009 ish.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Ben at Steak-n-Shake

Ben could run the place with a hat and a look like that.

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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Benjamin wanted to play drums on Guitar Hero World Tour.

He had a good time hitting the drums and didn't care that the game wasn't on.

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Thursday, December 25, 2008

We needed crushed pecans for supper.

Benjamin was more than happy to use his Bob the Builder hammer to crush them for us.

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Benjamin has had a great Christmas and it is only 9AM.

He got a stocking full of small toys and then unwrapped his "big" presents. He got Duplos, an Aquadoodle mat, a Handy Manny bowling set, a Cars book, a Leap Frog and game, a Pat-Pat laptop, and bath toy soaps. Pretty good haul!

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After Ben got all the toys out of the stocking, he decided to put the stockings on.

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Worn Out!

Benjamin had such an exciting weekend with Boo and Luis and baking with Mommy and eating all the candy from the gingerbread houses. I guess he finally crashed.

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The finished product...

Notice the Tootsie Roll Sidewalk and the Blue Gumball Swimming Pool--those were Amanda's ideas. Then, there are the Peeps Snowmen playing Tug-of-War with a Twizzler and the Purple Gumballs as Smoke from the Chimney-chris came up with those.

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Benjamin thought Mommy and Daddy's house tasted just fine.

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We couldn't even get the gingerbread house built before he started taking it apart.

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Benjamin had more fun eating the toppings than decorating the cookies

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Benjamin got to decorate his own cookies

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Saturday, December 20, 2008

I'm a big boy!

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Benjamin got to make his own cookies.

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Can I lick the spatula?

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Benjamin still helping Mommy bake.

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Benjamin helping Mommy bake.

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Wayne's World, Wayne's World...

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Benjamin knows what a vortex is.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Benjamin was a big help decorating the Christmas Tree this weekend.

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Benjamin loves to play in the nursery at church.

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Do you wear diapers? No, I poop in the Jungle.

It is really cool to be able to record these things. No one would believe us if we just told them he was reading the books and giving voices to the characters.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Ben in a Cat Carrier

Yes, This is a Cat Carrier. And Yes, That is our Benjamin in it. I guess if it is good enough for TK and Izzy, it is good enough for him (at least in his eyes). We got the carrier out of the closet while doing some cleaning this weekend. After coaxing Izzy and TK into the carrier on separate occasions, he decided to try it out himself.

Funnier still, these two pictures were each taken on different occasions today. In the one where he is backing into the box, Izzy is actually in there with him. In the other one, he is indeed stuck and can't wiggle himself out without assistance. But we couldn't bring ourselves to help him out without capturing the scene to share with everyone. He actually got in there so far that we could have closed the gate and carried the carrier to another room if we wanted to.

Silly Ben.

A Toddler With a Gun?

We had a really good time at camp last weekend. Benjamin got to try a lot of new things and meet a lot of new people. One of the things we did not knowing how he would react was Riflery. We rode the "People Mover" (a.k.a. Trailer behind a Suburban) down the bumpy dirt road to the Riflery Range and he did great. We gave him a set of Headsets for ear protection and to keep him from being scared by the noise of the other kids shooting and he wore them like a big boy for about 5 minutes. After that, he took them off and gave them back. The noise was clearly not an issue for him. Shortly after that, he started asking for his target and informing everyone that it was almost his turn. Obviously, no one in their right mind is going to just hand a 2 year old a loaded gun, but we decided to give him the illusion of participating. He was a very big boy, sitting on Daddy's lap and helping shoot the target. All seven shots hit the target and he was pretty proud of that target as he ran it back over to Mommy on the bench. Clearly, we don't want to encourage guns and violence, but we felt that in this environment, with this supervision, it was as good a time as any to expose him to the existence of this sport.