Little Benny Boo

Ben loves to be buried in his stuffed animals, or the sand, or pretty much anywhere.

My favorite Ben quote of the week was when he was searching the clean laundry for his "hulk smash" shorts (all his clothes relate back to super heroes, even if it is only a relative color similarity).  He couldn't find them, so I put different shorts on him.  Later he came down lofting the "hulk smash" shorts high above his head and yelled victoriously, "SCORE BABY!"

On Friday Derek and I were having one of those intense discussions that married couples sometimes have.  Especially when they haven't seen each other much in the last 3 weeks.  (And Derek was pretty tired after having worked 17 hours of OT at the May day "protests").  Anyway,  we were having a hard time hashing things out because Ben kept coming into the room saying, "Just be NICE DAD!"  "BE NICE!"  "MOM, be nice!"  It was so cute and funny.  And, thanks to a little time to talk it out, we are back on the same page.  I am fine with his decision to refinance, and he is forgiving me for spending some time and money on the dining room and asking him to remove the rest of the curtain rods from the living room. (see previous post).  

Ben chose Dad's tie last Sunday so they could be "Captain America".  Then Ben ditched his tie before we left for church.  

We went to a birthday party yesterday and Ben rocked the blowers.  His wind up dinosaur also won the wind up toy race (maybe because I was the only adult helping... but still, I consider it a great feat!)