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.

It's a Girl Baby Shower Card

I am going to a baby shower tomorrow and had to make a new card to go with my gift. My friend at church is having a baby girl (I think it's the year of the girl again).

I am entering this card in two challenges:

Inside & Out at My Craft Spot

and

Pastel & Die Cuts at One Stop Craft Challenge

Happy Easter Sunday!

Easter Sunday is winding down. We had a nice morning with pancakes and getting ready for church. Once we got Benjamin all dressed I decided to take his picture (just in case it didn't last through church). I really didn't get a smile from him at all.

He is probably sitting there thinking really mom, enough with the camera.

After church we got to cooking Mexican chicken, ground beef for soft tacos, Mexican rice and refried beans from scratch. I should probably say less we and more Jared. He really is a great cook and enjoys it for the most part.

Family members started showing up and we had an Easter Egg hunt for Benjamin and my two closest nephews, Connor and Corey. It was fun. There was a "Rotton" egg that was an ugly died rotten egg and the prize for getting it was dinner with the grandparents. Connor was the lucky boy and he sure was excited.

Benjamin didn't quite enjoy being on the grass without shoes. He also didn't grasp the concept but he would take the eggs from me and throw them in his basket.

Benjamin did however get the concept of eating candy and would steal from his cousin's a time or two. We had a great evening of hanging out, enjoying great food and relaxing.

April Fools! Time to Get Up!

6am and Benjamin was wide awake on Sunday April 1st (not a nice April Fools joke, he'd been up off and on since about 3am)! Benjamin had been awake for awhile actually at this point but TV and milk in our bedroom where not enough to keep him happy. I decided to get up and see what he wanted finally (I am so not a morning person).

He didn't want his milk anymore (Jared disappeared to the bedroom at this point) and so I made him some toast with cream cheese on it (actually for both of us). He happily stood at the counter eating and drinking his milk. I took a few pictures which I actually got him to smile for me. I would take a picture and then show it to him and the pictures progressively had better smiles. Love it!!!

I went and sat down in the living room and did my scripture studies. I figured I was up and I might as well get the day going. I was going to do the dishes and get a real breakfast made next but then I decided to write in my journal as I had put it off long enough. Benjamin came out into the living room and started playing with my umbrella. He laid on top of the vent and just relaxed. I wondered if he was ready to go back to sleep.

A few minutes later he crawled up into my lap and got cozy. I was still able to write and he was able to fall asleep. I finished writing and took him back to bed. Jared and I talked briefly before falling asleep ourselves again.

Jared woke us up in time to have family scripture study and prayer before General Conference started at 9am. I was very glad to have gotten the extra sleep. Since I had slept in so much (not really...I just got the sleep at a different schedule) I made breakfast while Jared and Benjamin played in the living room and we listened to General Conference. I made us a Dutch Baby for breakfast. Delicious!!! Takes a lot of my eggs but it was so worth it (which by the way the batch of 24 eggs we had from Costco had 8 double yolks in it...so crazy!)

While that was baking I took some pictures of Jared and Benjamin hanging out. Jared had opened the umbrella from earlier that Benjamin had been playing with and Benjamin laid down between Jared's legs and pulled the umbrella down. Benjamin likes to hide under things like blankets so it was pretty cute.

We finished listening/watching General Conference upstairs and then I finished putting away my new China (another blog to come). We had some good family time before the afternoon session of General Conference which we watched downstairs. After the last session Jared made it clear that if he was to make bread again (since we were out) that the counter had to be cleaned off. So I cleaned off the top of the fridge and while I was up there Jared asked is there a reason I was cleaning that off when he had asked for me to clean off the counter and cover it with everything from the fridge. I laughed and said yes. I continued to explain that my soup bowl was going to go on top of the fridge and I wanted to clean it off before I could put it up there. He smiled and laughed at me and said at least there is some reasonable logic there tied to cleaning off the counter.

Benjamin was so jealous of me being up near the fridge. Daddy suggested putting him up there so we did. He had a marvelous time. Now just give it a few more weeks and he will figure out how to get up there. The pantry is the way we see it happening.

I had finished packing up all my dishes for storage and then Benjamin had to lay on top of them of course. Can you blame him?

It was a great day! And I was so excited to see my flowers blooming from my sister in law Jacki. It's almost exactly 2 years old now and still growing!!!