summer pics From Portland, to Idaho and Back

Grandad and Ben

Gaumie and Ben

Ben in Uncle Sam's wheelbarrow! Soooo much fun

And our most favorite... WHEELS

Gaumie and Ben on our cruise around the lake

Look Mama, I have food on my head!

Ben spent a lot of time taking the rocks out of the fountain and lining them up on the table

Our other favorite thing is sticks! Oh how he loves a dirty stick:)

Roxy and Ben sharing a delightful snack of chips and more chips:)

Abuelita and Ben in Portland

Our 21st century family portrait

Ben's first trip to the Oregon coast

Happy boy

Our little Einstein

Tadku and Ben

Wiggle Butt

How cute is he?

He is our little dancin' man and such a joy to watch! Conrad took these with his phone. Hope they come out ok!

Happy Memorial Day!

Random pics from Memorial weekend

What a PAIR!!!

Oh my gosh, I am SO EXCITED!

That lemon curd is SOUR

Conrad and Gran

Look at me I am helping put things away:)

My new cat piano that Great-Grandma McCandless gave me. What a wonderful find! She must know how much I love kitties:)

Thank you so much for the wonderful piano! I love it.

We had a wonderful weekend and hopefully you all did to! Meghan is counting down the days till the end of the school year. 18 school days left!

random pics to enjoy!

Fire pit that is sooooo wonderful!

The cleaned up backyard with fire pit!

Still much to do in the front of the house

Monkey Walks!!! (finally)

So the little man finally walks @ 14mos. He has apparently been walking at daycare since the beginning of March, but wouldn't do it for us at home. i guess he knew that we are a bunch of suckers :) I found this out when I was relating a story of a little 10 mo. old girl, who walked around our school building unassisted like a champ! She is the great-granddaughter of Ms. Burtwell (the greatest woman in the world to have in a classroom with you) I went to Daycare that day a little bummed that this little girl at 10 mos. was a solid walker and Ben at 13 mos. still wouldn't walk. As i was telling the woman who runs the daycare this story she looked at me very quizzically and said, "He walks, watch." She proceeded to set him on the floor where, unassisted, he walked over to the bookshelf which was a good 5 feet away. However, he then caught me in his sight line, dropped to his knees, and very energetically crawled over to me! What a little bugger! Obviously he was picking and choosing the audience for which he would crawl and I was not invited to the show... Thank goodness he finally changed his mind! I was afraid that I was going to have to carry him around for the rest of his life :)

Anyway here is a video of him walking, sort of... Enjoy!

Bath lovin' Baby

Ben LOVES his bath. He splashes and plays and laughs... It doesn't matter what kind of day he has had, when it is bath time, he is happy. I love this time of day with him and treasure the joy he gets out of such a simple thing. Here are a few pictures of bath time :)