Teachin' 'em Young

Chalk Boy

It is so worth the mess to have him happy and playing! :)

We Love Nemo :)

Hair, Hair!

Ben is obsessed with hair. Mainly mine. From the time he was tiny, he would have to hold my hair to fall asleep... it was his security blanket.

Well, it still is. This morning, just after Ben got up, I threw my hair up in a knot so that it was out of my way... immediately Ben started crying. When I finally got him to calm down and "use his words" he looks and me with these big puppy dog eyes and said "hair down? hair down?" As soon as I took the band out he was as happy as a clam.

Silly Boy. :)

Videos

I have created a monster. We watched a video or two on the camera and now he just wants to watch them, he won't let me take them! AHH! Here are the few that I did manage to get.


Yummy!!!

Well, he knows hair, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, tongue, teeth, lips, chin, cheeks, neck, elbow, armpit, belly button, knees, toes, feet, leg & arm... but this is as many as I could get on video. :-P



Well, here are some of his skills with a ball... but he wouldn't talk... AHH! If only he would perform on command!!!
COMING SOON (If I can get it on video): Jumping, and the sound a snake and a rabbit make. :)

Joining the Dark Side

I have now completely switched to Gmail & Firefox... and I am LOVING IT!

Can I just say that Firefox and Gmail are both amazing. Andrew has done great things with Firefox... there are so many add-ons and cool little things. So many bells and whistles. Part of it is probably that I didn't take the time to customize my yahoo or internet explorer... but I don't think it could do everything FF & Gmail do.

A few of my favorite things:

Facebook tool bar
Email signature with links
Window recovery from previous session
Email filters with colors and everything
Archive options
Google Calendar

and so much more!

So, if you haven't made the switch... you should!

Time Just Keeps on Passing

Our best friends in Asheville, Josh & Missy just moved away. :( We will miss them greatly, but know they are exactly where God has them! Josh was accepted into a Ph.D. program at East Carolina University and God brought a buyer for their house this week! Here are a few shots of Ben and their daughter Alina. They are 11 months apart to the day. They are sitting on Josh & Missy's U-haul :)

Not sure what I think of her.

This could be fun... but my ear itches.
So sweet!
This past week we house/dog/pap paw sat while our friends the Goodrums were gone for a week! We had great fun living in someone else's house, eating their food and just hanging out. Readi-Whip is one of Ben's new favorite foods. :) Video coming soon. :)
Yummy!
Ben and Pap Paw have always enjoyed each other's company, but spending a whole week together just sealed the deal. They would play in the mornings while I took a shower (pap paw would feed him raisins) and Ben would cry when we left him at his day program. The last day we were there the two of them sat and talked on the front porch for AN HOUR while Andrew and I cleaned and just enjoyed an hour by ourselves. Here is the picture...I had to sneak the picture so Ben didn't see me... but here is Pap paw, Ben & Dixie... Ben is now a HUGE lover of dogs. It is so very sweet.

Death

Our washing machine has officially died. :( We had a great family-friend-handy-man come and look at it but after trying a few different things he officially pronounced him dead last Friday at 3:40pm.

So, having no money to spend on a new washer, we have officially become Craig's List hawks. Until then we will be inviting ourselves over to our friends and families houses' to do our laundry. If you live close... beware!!