What a Life!

Last night, Ben started telling us about this place called “Hoonose.” They have trucks there. And a big crane. Steve and I were looking at each other, thinking, What on earth is he talking about? We asked him some more questions, but then he clammed up and wouldn’t say anymore. Steve finally shrugged his shoulders […]

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Flipping through iPhoto this morning, I came across this fun series of Ben playing his new ‘tar at Christmas. [Click here to see the set with all ten photos.] It’s funny…he used to call his cement truck the ‘ment truck, but just this past week, when we got that toy back out again, he has […]

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My mom wanted to know what the boys do when they play together. Here’s your answer. And yes, life at our house is always this nice. Yup. Ben’s hair always looks like that, too.

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Last night Ben was doing some imaginary cooking. Steve was watching the football game, and Ben would go over to the kitchen, “make” him something, then bring it back to Daddy, and Steve would pretend to eat it and say “yum, yum, yum,” without missing a single play. Ben made him more food than a […]

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Ben goes through these stages, as every child does, I guess. The latest thing he’s been doing and just won’t quit? He walks around upstairs and says, “Bounce. Bounce. Bounce-bounce-bounce. Bounce. Bounce. Bounce.” Then he dramatically falls down and sprawls out on the floor. He gets up and does it over and over and over […]

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Ben’s latest intellectual acquisition is that he, Daddy and Joey are boys and Mommy is a girl. Apparently, this is such an exciting revelation to him that he finds it necessarily to repeat this information aloud many times every day. Including when we’re out shopping. Standing in line at a store. With a whole bunch […]

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