FFF-Wonder

Since there is no theme from Sarah's blog, I'm posting my latest favorite foto of Ben. I love this picture because you can just see the wonder in his facial expression as he points out the ducks to me at a park near our friends' home in Ohio. I love that he wants to share this new and exciting discovery he is making with me, and I love even more that he is holding my hand to take me with him to check it out. He never ceases to amaze me with the new things he is learning and doing each day, and I feel so blessed to have him in my life.

Weekend Fun

This weekend we went to Cincinatti to visit some friends we met through adoption. Ben and his friend, Hope, had a blast playing together and were sooo cute. We also got to join some other families with children from Guatemala for a while on Saturday. It was great to see some familiar faces and meet some new people too. Hope you enjoy the pics!

Ben and Hope enjoying a snack together.

This is Ben's newest thing-he points to anything and everything that catches his attention and says either "Mama" or "Dada" repeatedly until we look as well and comment on what he is showing us. I LOVE this age!!! (In this picture, he is showing me a bunch of ducks in the pond)
Crawling down the slide to get Hope's balloon. I love how he always sticks his tongue out when he is concentrating on something. It cracks me up.

Hope and Ben waving for the camera at the Tri-State Friends through Guatemalan Adoption event. These two even had fun just sitting in their strollers together.

Sooooo BIG!

Again with pointing to get my attention! This time he is pointing at a model train going around the Highfield Discovery Gardens. I love that he wants me to see what he is so excited about!

Smelling the flowers

Ben loved playing with Frog and Toad at the Discovery Center.

Ben playing peek-a-boo with Daddy around the back of the couch. This was after we got home and right before bed time last night. He is such a funny guy and loves to play games.

Mommy and Ben day

Today Ben and I got to spend the whole day together-just the two of us! We haven't gotten to do this in a long time because the "big boys" were on summer vacation so even on the day each week that I don't have my niece, we still had the big boys to take care of too. Ben LOVED all of the Mommy time, and I loved all of the Ben time even more! He is growing and changing so fast! I can literally see him learning something new every day. Since we had the whole day today, we headed to the Children's Museum and spent most of the day in Playscapes, which is an area for preschoolers only. We had soooo much fun! Hope you enjoy the pics!

Ben's favorite part, as always, was the water table. The hand dryer he got to use after playing in the water might have been a very close second favorite because he spent a looong time drying his hands and repeatedly pushing the button to start the dryer again.

This is the first time I've seen him try to actually WALK up the steps. Here he always crawls. I hope he sticks to crawling here because the walking was SCARY for Mommy to watch!

Smelling the flowers he "picked" from the garden.

This look means trouble every time! As soon as I snapped the picture, he sent the block tower tumbling. I love his expressive face!

Driving the heavy equipment in the construction area

Just for fun

Just wanted to post a few pics since I have been very bad about blogging lately. I've been too busy chasing after Ben to have much computer time:-) You can see in the top picture that he LOVES his push toys. He has two "official" push toys, but also uses laundry baskets, his music table, kitchen chairs, and anything else that moves as push toys as well. He is constantly walking around pushing something (unless, of course, he is hanging on my leg, which is his other favorite pass time!). Hope you enjoy the pics.

Check out this raffle...

www.globalorphanteam.blogspot.com

This is an organization that is focused on helping the children of Guatemala in all sorts of ways. The raffle is for prizes ranging from a Target giftcard to Guatemalan crafts and Christmas stockings. Please check it out since this money goes to a great cause!

Walking

I think my son may be the best con artist I know! He totally CAN walk. In fact, he walks all over the place when I'm not in the room. My nephews have seen him cross the room and back several times, as well as take off down the hallway. I've even seen it once myself-while hiding in the kitchen. However, the minute he sees me walk into the room, he sits down, grins at me, and reaches his arms for me to pick him up. Of course, I can't resist that big grin and I always do pick him right up. I'm pretty sure at this point that he isn't walking more because he WANTS me to carry him everywhere! What a stinker!