Sunday, March 4, 2012

Consequences for Climbing

When you have a climber they are prone to get injuries. Or at least that has been my experience. Benjamin is always getting bruises or fat lips.
This injury is from kneeling on his rocking chair instead of sitting in it and throwing himself backwards. He knocked himself pretty good right on the bridge of his nose into my piano bench. He cried for a minute and went and did it again.

A Place to Sleep

Benjamin loves to fall asleep with us. Or at the very least to be near us. I've thought about bringing his crib into our room to see if it makes a difference for him to go to bed at night. One night we had an extra pillow on Jared's side of the room and Benjamin crawled off our bed and laid on it next to the bed. Jared grabbed some blankets and set Benjamin up and he loved it.
It's pretty cute to roll over and see him laying down in his own little space. He is quite the bed hog and in our queen size bed with Jared and I there's really not much room left. Last night in fact he crawled off the bed and laid down on our dirty laundry pile. He fell asleep there so Jared tried to move him to his bed and when he woke up laid back down in our bed at which point Benjamin threw a huge fit and crawled off the bed and laid down again on the dirty laundry. Jared eventually was able to put him in his crib but talk about weird.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Chocolate & Peanut Butter

I do get desperate for chocolate and sweets. What can I say...this baby girl has a sweet tooth!
I found a great recipe for a chocolate peanut butter cookie. Benjamin and I were big fans. I've made them twice.

No naps...we've got a trick for that

At 20 months here is a cute picture of Benjamin completely passed out.
Benjamin doesn't always like to take a nap and will try desperately to stay awake. We have a little trick in our back pockets...(drum roll please) Daddy playing Forza 4! Works like a charm. We did it again today and it only takes minutes. And Benjamin is still asleep now.

Stovetop Popcorn

As I think I might have said before...sometimes popcorn and orange juice is a great dinner to our family on Sunday nights. We ran out of microwave popcorn a long time ago and have not bought more. We've decided it was a big of a luxury. We still had popcorn kernels. I had popped it a few times in our air popper and it tasted okay...a bit stale too me which made me think my popcorn was just old. Jared looked up a recipe for stove top popcorn and we fell in love.
Here is Benjamin enjoying some popcorn for a snack and if you look closely we are having smoothies too.

The Orange Blob

Here comes the word again...organizing. I was working to organize my clothes and a bunch of them landed in the living room (much to Jared's dismay). Benjamin found one of my swimsuit covers and thought it was so funny to be covered with it.
Such a cute orange blob huh?
(January 27th, 2012)
Well then we left the camera on and in Benjamin's reach...here are a few pictures he took.

Pen Holders

I've been working on my craft room and making it more organized forever now...huh?!! I found one of my books of craft ideas a few weeks ago and was inspired to make these cute cones (I had always wanted to make since I got the pattern) to hold pens. I have several gel pens and they sit in a huge tub that Benjamin loves to take and dump out everywhere. It's hard to see all the different colors I have too. So I decided to make some cones and see if I could use my wall space (again) to organize my crafting items.
What do you think?
Want to make one? Let me know and I will put a tutorial together. The first one took me forever because the instructions had no pictures. I took pictures on my second through the 5th one to ensure I would know how to do it again in the future and make anyone else's life easier.