Into the woods

This afternoon, I took a little break from the kid while he and Brian got to spend some time together.

When I joined them again before dinner, they were in the woods behind our house. Oh what fun we had! See photos and video below.

I balance myself, mama!

A muddy bum is a sign of a good day!

Always with the sticks . . . 

I LOVE THE WOODS!!!!!

Happiness is . . . a happy boy.

Weather

Just a quick note to document for all time that today, the temp topped out at around 70 F. Holy cow, we're only in the middle of March and folks in Buffalo were barely clad at the St. Patrick's Day parade this morning. Now, who's to say that they may have been scantily clad even if it were snowing . . . but still. 70F?

It's supposed to be this beautiful all weekend and into early next week. We're planning to go to a maple farm for Maple Weekend tomorrow morning. After that, it's outside as much as we can stand it.

Hopefully, I'll be able to report that Bennett has become a proficient scooter-rider soon. He's dying to get out there and work on it. Yay!

Shameless plug

Just in case someone OTHER than our immediate family reads this - I'm going to plug my etsy shop. I make bibs and cloth wipes and every now and then some other fun stuff for the smaller set of humans.

Check it out! I try to be reasonable priced . . .

http://www.etsy.com/shop/songshiner

The sun was shining today

The sun had come out
There was lots to play.
We had to get out
On this sun-shiney day.

My apologies to Dr. Seuss . . . it was an absolutely lovely afternoon! Bennett and I had a great morning at the Buffalo Museum of Science. We met up with friends from our playgroup in the Explorations room and he was content for an hour and a half. After we left, we went to Michael's house and played and had lunch before coming home to crash. Unfortunately, Bennett must have known that the sun was shining because he only slept for one hour. I left him in his bed for the full two hour nap time.

When we got up - we went outside! First to join more friends from playgroup at a local playground. It was a bit windy, so we left after an hour to come home. Bennett and I took a walk in the wagon which was tons of fun and then he played in the backyard forever! He put on his farmer jacket and hat (totally imaginary, but he looked soooo good, y'all!) and dug in the dirt.

I've taken lots of photos and videos in the last month or so, since I got my new phone. I'll download them to the computer and then add them to the blog in the next couple of days.

Climbing a rock wall with daddy's help

Some of Bennett's artwork at school - notice the "title"

Building at the science museum

My ladybug!

Bowling with daddy - Bennett's new "flavorite"thing to do

My very favorite photo of him right now! CHEESSEE

I Wanna Build a Fort

In an effort to get a little work done to prepare for my upcoming trip to the West Coast, I left the house for a couple of hours on Sunday morning. This gave Bennett and Brian ample daddy-son bonding time. When I came home, I found out that the two had built quite the fort while I was away. They even took some photos!

Crawling in Door #2

Peek-a-boo!

Coming out Door #3

Inside by Door #1

Lounge boy - INSIDE!!!

Now - whenever Bennett doesn't like what we're currently doing, he pipes up with, "I wanna build a fort wiff you, mama!" I'm not as good at the fort building as Brian, but I try.

Ready to go . . .

This morning, Bennett knew that we were going to a playgroup and he was very excited. Still dressed in his pajamas, he turned to me and said, "Mama! I ready to hit on the road. Let's go!"

He must have heard me say, "Let's hit the road!" and/or "Get on the road" at some point. I turned to Brian and said, "Oh how I wish he would continue to say these sorts of things even when he's fifteen." He's so cute and I love his little expressions.

Sneezes

Last night, around 1:30am, Bennett got sick. I heard him cry out and saw him walk around his room for a minute before climbing back in his bed and eventually going to sleep. I didn't think anything of it at the time because he's done that before, although usually it's around midnight.

This morning, Brian went in to get him as usual and Bennett said, "Daddy, I have big sneezes." Turns out - he'd vomited all over his bed and bubby and on the floor too! My sweet poor baby. So, for the entire day, we were on the lookout for more "big sneezes".