Spring Break is over?

Alas, a lovely week at home with my child has come to an end.  Fortunately that also brought the return of my husband who was on a Mission Trip to New York all week.  Pictures of our fun week coming soon!

 I hope.  ;)

When the little one is sick...

Our poor baby boy (now 20 months old) is suffering from a cold this week.  Many people in our family have had it.  I am pretty sure it has gone around our entire town (as well as that nasty stomach virus).  Benjamin has had spurts of energy mixed with longer spurts of rest.  This was Sunday when we basically came in to town with him long enough to realize that his cough from the day before was worse, and he didn't need to be around anyone.  He took a nap during the 2nd service, thus I sat in the teen building with him while he slept on the sofa.  Anyone else notice how he's starting to look less and less like a baby? Sigh.

This was post-nap, post-trip home.  Some Bubble Guppies or Micky Mouse Clubhouse...Aka Bubble or Mooka ("Think, Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse!") with some snackies/lunch perked him up for a while.

There have plenty of cuddles and a little more tv than usual this week.  Also, as seen in the picture below he gets amused with putting things on his head and saying, "Hat!"  My fault, I must admit, from playing that game with him a few times. I was amused that it looked like a yarmulke.

That's all for now.  Pray that the sickness will leave us.  It hit my mom pretty hard to, so we are looking forward to some rest and playing catch up on things during Spring Break next week. ;)

Benjamin gets a haircut

Here is our big boy playing around this past Saturday morning.  He is already 19 1/2 months old!

Why does he look so grown up?  Well, he has had his 3rd haircut now.

Here is our before:

He pretty much hates the process.  Thanks, Carmen, for your patience! Grammy and I were actively feeding him fruit snacks and trying to entertain him with phone apps.  It worked some.

He just looks so great when it is finished though!

We are loving our time with our sweet boy. Hope all is well with everyone.  

The more you know....6 years ago today was when Josh proposed to me.  ;)

February snow

Our February snow was a different story from the January snow (mentioned in the previous post).  It was must fluffier and deeper.  We had about 7 inches total over a two day period.

Benjamin tentatively took a few steps.

He looked around...

...gave a smile to Josh...

...and then I offered to let him feel the snow.

That was the beginning of the end.

After crying over the cold snow he walked a few feet and fell down.

Basically, he hated it.  Doesn't help that he was fighting a head cold.

At least it was pretty. :)

January snow

After schools closed early on January 28th, we made plans to go home in our Explorer (4 wheel drive!).  My hubby carefully traveled across town to get the baby, and then carefully came out to the school to get me, then we came home.  Benjamin enjoyed playing outside for a very few minutes, and then we all went inside because it was frigidly cold. He had a good time.

He didn't want to come inside. ;)

Josh the builder

With only two closets in our house--one in each bedroom, we definitely need more storage space in our cabin, and Josh has wanted for years to take a hollow area in our wall and turn it into a closet.  He took it upon himself to do so after Christmas.  Little did he know that we would both be suffering from the flu.  He managed to push along anyway.

As you may be able to tell, it is in the foyer between our bathroom and bedroom.  The only electrical work was moving an outlet from one side of the wall to the other.  This was stage one after he took the boards off the wall to expose the hole.

My helping hand was keeping the splinters and saw dust vacuumed up so that it did not injure us or the baby.  I also had several times where Benjamin and I played in his bedroom with the door shut in order to keep him away from dangerous things.

This is the beginning of the inside of the closet.

And...done!

The bottom part is for the vacuum cleaner, steam mop, etc.  Or in this case...us!

  

Benjamin loved his platform for the short time it was empty.  He would get inside and dance.  

The only thing left to do is put a door on it.  Josh needs to pick up a few things to finish it up.  It has been so cold, and he had a cyst removed from his chest (and had stitches for 2 weeks), so it is on the back burner for a little while longer.

 We are gladly using it now to store all of our cleaning stuff, paper towels, etc.