Waffles for dinner!

Waffles on Monday night seems to be coming either a habit or a tradition, I am not sure which yet. Incidentally Ben and i love waffles, and Matt makes them the best! (well, except for Mom, but he is new at it!) Anyway, This is what was happening while I was on the other side of the wall teaching! I was able to snap a couple of quick pics while my student was in the restroom. This being at home thing may just be awesome after all!
First Ben helped make the batter, Then he pounded some serious waffleage!

Then of course he chased it with some milk! Just in case anyone wonders why he is huge, or what we feed him, now you know! a full waffle and 10 ounces of milk, does a boy good!

The Home-Studio

as you stand in the front door.

turning to your right into the living room.

Looking back down the hallway from the couch side of the living room.

Into the dining room

The dining table.

my kitchen, love the color! it previously had red and yellow plaid wall paper, not terrible, but not my choice either.

this is just a shot of my wall statue hanging above the door to the hallway. this is the first time it has been hung since we have had this house. I love that piece!

Since we worked so hard over the weekend to get the house set up for teaching and I never have posted any pictures of the wonderful painting job Matt did while I was in Utah for the summer, I thought I would do so now. This might be the most well put together our little house has been! We actually are feeling pretty good about it, even if it is over stuffed! Love grows best in little houses right?

Sesame Street

Ben's reaction to Sesame Street Dinosaurs. His first, i believe, encouter with sesame street. He was a fan! If Ican get the video to load I will post it, he was pretending to be a dino.

Pass times

I am not sure if Ben is making the cars drive the road of if they are all being pulled in a train by the engine on the far left. Hmmm.....

Wall Art

Yesterday Ben did his first round of wall art. I say first because I am not so delusional to think it will be the only time this happens. For one, Matt and I have a large amount of art supplies in the house as we both enjoy drawing - we are bound to leave those accessible at some point. Two he is going to have a little sister that will need guidance is such areas. Third, he is not even 2 yet the odds of him getting hold of a writing utensil while one or both of us are preoccupied is highly likely. Which is exactly what happened yesterday. Matt was cooking dinner and Ben got a pen of the the table that I admit I left there. He is so much stretchier than he looks! Any who, When I walked in from the studio I almost immediately noticed the writing on the wall. I asked Matt and he was like, "what writing? I took a pen from him a little while ago." The fun part about it was how proud Ben was! Showing me all the spots himself! I believe this happened as a direct result of story time yesterday. Miss Liz had a large piece of paper taped to the wall and let the kids color on it. I think Ben enjoyed that more than I realized! So, anyway, here are the pics! welcome to our gallery, may we be raising the next Jackson Pollock!

Beary Returns!

I came home from the studio last night and ben was hauling around Beary! Ben usually keeps him in his bed! I thought it made some cute pics! and this is the first time beary has made and appearnce on his own blog in quite some time!

The new House Bassett

This is Bella (no, i did not name her. but yes, I suspect she was named for the Twilight character.) We adopted this hound last week, she is 18 months old and as sweet as can be. Considering Sissy wont be up to entertaining her big brother for at least another 12-15 months I decided maybe a house bassett woud do the trick. So far so good!

Labor Day!

We had quite a successful Labor Day! Ben and Matt started the day with Frisbee golf, then we had a good long nap, then hamburgers and hotdogs at Aunt Rachel and Uncle Aaron's house followed up by a game at the Diamond Jaxx! Then we all went shopping, can't pass up Labor Day weekend sales!

When the House Becomes Too Quiet

So, I was in my room working on the computer last week and I suddenly noticed that I was not hearing any thing from the boy. Too quiet I thought. I went in search of the source of silence. This is what I found: The boy sitting in my recliner with a back of gummy raspberries. Yup, just munchin' away. Don't know how many he ate. Took me a while to discover where he got them from. Matt had left a back pack in the front room and apparently the gummies were in there! The kid has a nose for sweets!

Rediscovering an old Friend

When Ben was just becoming mobile and needed something to get into without getting told no I put a bunch of random and seldom used Tupperware items in this cupboard and let him have at it. He Loved it! It had been months since he played in here, I mean really played with the stuff emptying it out, he might occasionally pull something out and haul it off, but that was it. Well, last week he rediscovered the joy in emptying this cupboard. Then he proceeded to herd the contents around not only the kitchen but the dining room too! Man I love this kid!

Littlest Poser

There is no doubt who he resembles in personality! Grab the camera and tell him to be handsome and you get all sorts of out comes, the same can be said of his father! He is just so darn cute! He is all into wearing his hats this week, mostly he likes to wear the John Deere one because it is just like Uncle Aaron's.