A Day at Home

On Wednesday's I work from home. On May 16th I kept the camera nearby to capture a few moments with Benjamin throughout the day.

Benjamin loves to lay between our legs for some reason. If your on the bed he will climb between them and if you are laying on the floor on your stomach he will still climb between your legs. Though yesterday Jared was laying on the floor reading on his stomach but his feet were going into the window sill. So Benjamin climbed the back of Jared's legs and into the window. It was pretty funny.

Bath time! If Benjamin doesn't get his bath before Jared leaves for school then it's pretty unlikely that Benjamin will get a bath at all.

And of course the day cannot be complete without some cars being lined up around the house. Typically Benjamin lines them up right next to each other but the other day Daddy showed him how you could line them up right behind each other.

  Probably a week ago or so we were hanging out downstairs and Jared went upstairs to get something...maybe a diaper...when he came back downstairs he tells me, "Our house is infested!" I started to feel a little uneasy and asked, "With what?" "CARS!!!" He said he went upstairs and rounded the corner and hit a lineup of cars and they all scattered like things do when you come upon mice or cockroaches quickly. Thankfully it was just a description and not a real infestation.

Crashed on the Floor

So two weeks ago Monday I was working from home as part of my normal schedule currently. In the afternoon I was on a conference call training my backup for maternity leave. Benjamin had left the room I was using as my office for the past week (his future bedroom) and had gotten too quiet. I stepped away briefly to see what he was doing. I found him lying on the floor looking at his toys. I figured he was due to fall asleep soon.

I was right! I went back to my call and finished up and about 20 minutes later I came back out and found him sound asleep. I couldn't help but take pictures of course!

Benjamin fights us on taking naps so we've stopped trying to put him down. Some days he takes naps and some days he doesn't. We are finding him more and more around the house crashed out like this. He will fall asleep in the car easily and take a short nap and be pretty good for the rest of the day. On the days he gets a short nap or no nap he goes to bed early like 7:30pm. On the days that he gets a good nap...like on Sunday I napped with him for two hours, he goes to bed really late...11pm. Sometimes he will also wake up in the middle of the night ready to play for a few hours. Or get out of bed at 4:45am like this morning. Oh well I rather not fight him to take a nap and just role with it. I did get a lot of work done this morning before I normally would have.

Playin' at Grandma's

For Mother's Day this year my husband's dad decided a work party to plant flowers and weed the flower beds would be a great gift for his wife. Afterwards we would all hang out and enjoy food together. Not a bad plan because as an added bonus I got to stay home for Mother's Day.

  

I sat down by the side of the yard and weeded a little section while Jared, his dad and brother Brian worked in the main bed. Benjamin had fun running around. Once I weeded my little section I felt I had done enough...I was after all 35 weeks pregnant. Also Benjamin had started climbing down the steep hillside into the yard and I wasn't comfortable with it nor did I have the energy to keep chasing him. So we went inside and got some juice and had a snack.

I let Benjamin run around for a bit outside again because let's face it the weather was nice and he loves to be outdoors. But after awhile I was exhausted and Jared was busy doing the yard work so we retreated back inside shortly after his cousin's Connor and Corey showed up.

Connor and Corey had some fun with water balloons that Grandma had made up.

OCD with Cars

Who doesn't love nicely organized lined up cars? Benjamin has been taken with lining up his cars lately. He will dig cars out of the toy chest and go line them up around the house. Jared stumbled upon this find before I did and it was pretty awesome. Benjamin even went so far as to find cars that were in other locations around the house. It seems a little OCD like his father to me.

What funny things do your children do?

Tomato's That Didn't Die

Two Friday's ago was a beautiful day. We could not help ourselves but to play outside as much as possible and hang out as a family. We decided to plant the few tomato plants left that didn't look totally dead after the weather dropped to freezing temperatures. We put walls of water around the tomatoes as well to help them grow. They are actually doing pretty well and bouncing back nicely!

Benjamin loves to run around the yard and do his thing and help us with whatever it is we are doing.

We decided to put Benjamin in the shorts since it was such a nice day. The thing though is that he didn't seem to care for them. At times I would find him pulling at his shorts trying to pull them down to his ankles. When his pants get stuck pulled up he has to pull them down and he seemed to think that was the issue with the shorts. Too funny! 

Knee in My Back

While working from home today Benjamin grabbed his Winnie the Pooh phone and put it on the desk next to me and proceeded to play with it right there. I had no issue with it and thought it was pretty funny.

After awhile he was done and decided to jump on me and knee me in the back, a lot! I decided to get smart and grab the small table for him to climb and use to jump to the couch. Success! It totally worked!

Laying Down to Read

On Sunday Jared took a new book to church to help entertain Benjamin. The Forza 4 book. I figured why not, no harm. Oh my goodness it was a great help. Then Monday while I was working from home he grabbed the book and laid down on the desk next to me to flip through the book.

Cracked me up! I had to take pictures.