Friday, June 27, 2008

Our last lunch date of Kindergarten

The last week of school, I went for one last lunch date with my Kindergartener. It had been a few weeks since I'd been there and he had a couple new tricks to show me. One was that he can do chin-ups now. This was a rarity that Ben would play with Braden at recess b/c Braden was usually swamped with a ton of little girls wanting to carry him around or "help him" do everything (which Braden hated and would constantly yell at them--"STOP!" He's SO independent!) But this day, Ben played with his little brother and wanted to help him on the slide. And Braden actually let him help--surprising! Ben's other trick is skipping every other bar on the monkey bars. Strong little guy! :)

"Flowers" for Mommy

These pictures were taken a while back, but I just had to blog them. Ben's love language is "gifts." He loves to get them, but I think he likes to GIVE them just as much. Nearly everywhere we go he brings me a rock. And he picks dandelions for me all the time. This particular day, I took him and his buddy Zach to the park and sat and watched them play from the car. When they got done playing, Ben went over and started picking "flowers" for me. I noticed what he was doing and grabbed my camera out of my purse.
This pic is of him picking them... Here comes my scraggly haired sweetie with "flower" in tote... This was the first one of many he brought me that day. I told him (as we'd talked about before) I needed a LONGER stem so I could put it in water. .. :) So off he went and brought me another...and another... and another. For such a rowdy, ornery kid, he sure knows how to make Mommy's heart smile!

May Misc...

I often go to eat lunch with Ben at school. After lunch, I go to recess with Ben and a lot of the kids LOVE having a Mom and a 2 year old at recess with them. I get "hey, watch this" about 50 times during recess. And I'm usually taking pictures, so they all want their picture taken too. This one was just a lot of the kids from various classes. From left to right: Bella, Joshua, Ben, Anthony, Garrett, Joseph, Brinley, and Efren.Ben's very favorite thing to do at recess ALL YEAR has been the monkey bars. He has progressed to being able to skip every other bar when he does them now and it quite proud of himself!!! My sister-in-law Sheila have been taking turns having "me days." I watch her kids one day and then she'll watch mine another. It's been WONDERFUL!!! I held up my camera and pointed it towards the back seat and took this one of the kids. They were eating up the attention and all saying "CHEESE" about the time I took the 3rd picture. :) Yum--Lunch!

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Fun pics--Braden and Mommy

Braden and I having fun in the bathroom.
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