There's never an easy way

Ben Ben is learning to eat food, well cereal, I suppose it qualifies as food... yuck. For a while there I was certain more was coming out than I put in. It is getting better.

He never had a bottle mind you, but now... what could be more fun?

Update delivered Wednesday as scheduled, be sure to share the love.

Fun Jadonisms this week:

Jadon takes Ben's face so gently between his two hands and kisses him.

Ben was laying on our bed, while I was getting ready to take us all the the park. He started fussing, Jadon came up to him and said "I know, I know Ben" and then he went to the guitar and sang "The Ben Song".

Jadon says "I hold you me" I think he gets this from us saying "You want me to hold you?"

Jadon asks to "check" on Ben. Right...

Jadon rocks...

out to David Crowder that is. Only our son would be in love with the David Crowder Band and always ask to watch their videos on the computer constantly. And when we do let him watch them he runs to get the dust mop... to play gutair on... of course. I have video, I will see if David can show me how to put it on here. He like Neverending, the la las' get him everytime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr6mD_lub6U

A day in the life...

Happy Ben! He likes measuring cups.

Hmmm....

A's Game

Jadon learning the wave.

Field of Dreams Status... No?

Ben Ben snuggled up during the game.

So last Friday we went with my mom and saw the A's play. Those who remember how Jadon completely freaked out and the whale and dolphin show at Marine World... ditto at the baseball game. Not the screaming, crying type thing, but shaking, repeating mama mama asking to go home type thing. Maybe because we don't do the TV thing, he is not used to stimulation overload... like the rest of us...? But about half way though the game he relaxed and enjoyed himself. He liked the cheering and seeing the ball etc.

Floaties!

You just gotta love that face!

Benjamin and I have decided to try to update the blog every Wednesday.   That is now in print so now you may hold me accountable ;)  Benjamin said it is fine with him as kong as I keep it short and don't say anything embarrassing about him (don't worry, he can't read too well yet!)

Cute Jadonisms:

He is in a phase that when he leaves somewhere he must say goodbye to everything, you know cups, spoons, grass etc.  Well leaving the grocery store this week he said "Bye lights, bye water, bye pen that writes on my hand."  While I had been paying for the food he had been writing on his hand with the pen on the cord you use when you write checks.  Very funny.

He says No Please.  (Does that mean yes or no?)

Jadon loves to cook.  He runs to his stool saying "I helper, I helper."  Today we made a berry cobbler, I had to think of something for him to cook and we had a bag of frozen berries.  He says "2 cups, 2 cups" he would like 2 cups of flour.

His new phrase is "I workin, I workin." usually quoted while doing something that isn't a good idea to do, but should be allowed to because "he's workin"

Ben and his best buddy!

He Loves this thing!

Father's Day 09

I'm convinced this is as good of a Father's Day picture your gonna get with a 2 year old and 5 mon. old.  This is actually the best one, most of the other ones look like someone is in pain.

"The headlock Pose,"  always a favorite.

Jadon giving Ben a kiss.

Jadon showing Daddy where Baby Ben is.  He really loves his brother!

Daddy's gift from us, to hang in his office!

Wow, whose that handsome guy... movie star, opera singer, ostrich tamer??

NO!  It's JADON! When we paint Jadon likes to paint himself, of course.  So this day Jadon drew a smudge across his upper lip that looked like a mustache and I thought hey, if you can't beat them ...

So, the cat's out of the bag...

So, for this post you can refer to my previous post "That's all I have to say about that."  In an attempt to 1. shock the blog world  2. see if anyone was actually reading my blog and 3. see if I could get any comments, I posted the strange, yet strangely not as strange as one might think picture of David.  Inferring that David had indeed hit some sort of pre-mid life crisis, shaved off  his goatee only leaving a mustache and  plans were underway to start a harly davidson sky jumping group.   My original plan was to post this picture sooner revealing that David had not in fact jumped off the deep end (or airplane for that matter), but rather we hosted a formal for our student featuring a 1920s theme and David had sacrificially  shaved the beloved facial hair for the Mystery Dinner Play that the leaders preformed that night for the kids.  

Please note, I did receive 3 comments after the alleged picture.  And don't worry David would never wear leather.