Cool dude

This was on a vbs shopping trip at Wal-Mart.  Benjamin wanted a hat.

Sunday School

Benjamin began going to Sunday School on Easter of this year.  Our church congregation is in transition and  has gone from about 115 regular attendees to about 60 over the course of the past year or so, and all of the preschoolers and primary grades are together right now...which equals about 5 kids including Benjamin.  

He seems to really enjoy it.  I have to stay with him right now since the lessons are geared more towards 3 & up kids.  We are enjoying it though. He loves other kids, and if is teaching him how to participate in a structured environment.

City Picnic

As a city employee, Josh (plus family) has the opportunity to go to their annual picnic at Tinsley Park.  This year they catered Shane's Rib Shack.  Mmm.  

It was on May 22nd, and for some reason Benjamin woke up in a bear of a mood.  He was basically only happy if he was doing exactly what he wanted to do with absolutely no suggestion from me.  Oh joy.

He played on the playground.

He threw a tantrum or two...or four...or more.

He checked out a police vehicle used to patrol the Greenway (the Greenway connects to the park).  His expressions varied.

He was sad to see it go when the police officers went back to work.

Later that evening I gave him a chance to run through some water hose spray at home.  He enjoyed it.

We had a good day overall.

A Trip down the Greenway

Josh and I took the teens for a stroll on the Greenway on May 18th.

We stopped for a photo op.

I was a brave Mama and let Benjamin run free for the few miles we walked.  I thought I would regret not grabbing the stroller, but we survived and had a great time exploring.

Secret Agent Man

I have been super busy directing VBS this week.  It's Lifeway's D3 which is spy themed.  I was fortunate to have some posts already scheduled on here otherwise you wouldn't have heard from me!  

A couple pictures of my cutie in our helicopter prop.  In case you think he is super cooperative, we had to play peek-a-boo with him the entire time, and these were the random shots out of about 50 that turned out well. ;)

Love the random prissiness.

I have a fun new Picsart app that helps me make fun collages.  You might start seeing some fun things start turning up.

We have Family Fun Night tonight.  Busy day ahead.  

Magic Kingdom (Day 3)

After driving to park at Disney, and then finding out we couldn't ride the monorail yet (And thus had to ride the ferry to Magic Kingdom), we made it to our first reservation of the day.  

We had breakfast with Pooh Bear and friends at the Crystal Palace.

Benjamin did fairly well with the large characters.

HE wasn't much in the mood for posing though.

Winnie the Pooh hugged us.  Benjamin didn't quite know what to think.

Don't touch me!

He started trying to bop Tigger on the nose.

After that we went on the Safari Cruise.

We watched a parade on Main Street after that, but Benjamin was starting to get sleepy.

We strolled around a bit and sure enough...

We scanned out the location of his haircut that would come later.

It was October, and they had everything decorated for Halloween.

Benjamin was oblivious to it all.

I took a few before pictures of his hair.

He wasn't a fan.

Then, it was time for his haircut!  The lady started by putting stickers all over him to get his attention.

He also had a buzzy light up toy to entertain him.

He enjoyed chewing on his hairbrush from home.

He tolerated it fairly well.

Then, he got his first set of ears!  They say "My 1st Haircut" on the back.

The new "do."

We went to see Mickey after that.

Benjamin was awake for this next parade.  We had picked up his 1st Visit pin by this point too.

We had the most delicious Chocolate covered ice cream Mickey ears.

Then, it was time for It's a Small World.

After that we waiting in line for the Winnie the Pooh ride.  They had neat interactive stuff for the kids.

Black lights anyone?

After that it was time for yet another nap.  Again, those were the days...He had a shirt change after the Mickey Ears if you noticed.

I had read something about labeling the stroller with your name to pick it out from the sea of strollers where you have to park it.  It helped!

After all of that it was time for dinner.  

Benjamin woke up in time for dessert.

This was some of the new theming that had added since we were at Disney last.

We went on the Little Mermaid ride.

These were up by the evening.  They were candy stations for the Mickey's Not so Scary Halloween party.  We opted not to do that on this trip.

Benjamin was in good spirits by the end of the day, but obviously getting sleepy again.

All in all it was a great day!