Today is not a normal Friday because Peter is HOME! Since he worked so many extra hours earlier in the week, he was able to take today off and it's been great!!! We've been super tired from our long week so it's been nice to be home and just enjoy time together and rest a little bit.
Here's a few highlights of our week...
It's still been raining off and on most of the week but we've had little glimpses of sunshine here and there so when it's out, so are we! Benjamin went walking with Daddy while Mommy fixed dinner and then Peter put Benjamin in the grass of our front yard.
He just sat there for the longest time (not wanting to touch the grass at first) and loooved watching the cars go by as everyone got home from work. Of course, I had to snap a few pics...
a sweet, thoughtful moment
I simply adore him
I have been more than ready for Spring and sunshine to arrive so I was getting a bit of spring fever this week and have been cleaning out closets and things. I only worked when I could while Benjamin played or napped for two days, but I cleaned out our laundry room, pantry, refrigerator, cupboards, coat closet, stair storage, console table and "junk" drawer. Oh, it feels good to get organized again. Next week I'll try to tackle the upstairs, oh boy!
Benjamin enjoyed playing in the cleaned out storage area under the stairs! :-)
Wednesday was our small group in the evening and it's always so great to get together with our friends.
Thursday I took Benjamin and 5 high school girls to Eugene for a day of shopping and lunch at the Olive Garden. I think I was crazy when I suggested to the girls to "just call me" if you get bored on Spring Break and want to go somewhere, ha! :-) It was really fun though and despite lugging around a busy, big, one year old through a few malls and lunch at Olive Garden during what should have been his nap time, it was a great day. I enjoyed being able to connect more with the girls in our youth group! As soon as I got home, I dropped Benjamin off with Daddy and headed to Worship Team practice....it was a long day! We finished it off though by watching some more of "Bleakhouse" on Netflix. It's based on a Dickens novel and is really good, hopefully we'll finish this weekend!
Today we've been kind of lazy and kind of productive. I made monkey bread for breakfast (YUM!), Peter took Benjamin to the hardware store and we're trying to get Benjamin caught up on his naps/sleep. Not sure why but his napping has been kind of off lately and his sleeping has been off (i.e. getting up and "talking" on and off from about 6am on....) We were more than ready for a day of rest today :-) We're going to watch the Ohio State men's basketball game tonight as they take on Kentucky!!
Here's a few more pictures from our week!
Benjamin has decided he wants to brush his own teeth!
he looooves his Elmo pj's from Auntie Amanda
oh my goodness he is cute (even when he's running away to avoid bedtime!!)
he looks at his pajamas and says EMO EMO
the best part of these pajamas is that when I go to get him in the morning he looks like this (the buttons don't fasten super tight!) We die laughing when we walk in to see our little Elmo Fabio lookalike :-)
love his baby blues!
our little stud strutting his stuff :-)
he wanted nothing to do with this dog stuffed animal earlier in the week (because it's not Floppy of course) but he at least gave it one minute of his time later in the week. Glad he's not opinionated and particular :-)
it's the "after dinner happy" as our friends call it. He was quite pleased with himself after stuffing himself full of spaghetti. Now off to go play with my toys!
reading one of his new favorite books Chika Chika Boom Boom!!
looking like such a big boy!
he looks like he's starting an Irish jig or something!
he loves to carry random objects around and yell at the top of his lungs. And I'm noticing that his pants are getting shorter.....which means he's still growing. Stop it already little man, Mama can't take it.
this is how he spends a lot of his time....trying to grab Mama's laptop!
quite the impressive reach
Oh Benjamin, you are a handful. Is it bad that he's not at all deterred when we sternly tell him not to do something. I think we're going to have to get creative around here when it comes to discipline!
Just cruising with his shark!
Look what I caught for dinner Mama!
Doesn't he look like a rugby player here? The cutest rugby player I've ever seen!!!
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