Halloween Story Time

We go to story time most every Tuesday down at the local library. Ben likes the stories, dancing, and other kids, oh and the crafts. This week was their halloween celebration. The kids dressed up Ms Liz read some Halloween themed books and they went from desk to desk getting treats. Ben picke up on that pretty quick!

This is Ms Liz with the kids, she is a sweet lady and the kids love her!

This is trick or treating in the library.

Ben signing thank you.

Back to the class room for cookies and milk followed up by a little coloring. Good times!

Pumpkin Patch

We have made going to the Pumpkin Patch in Milan each year a family tradition. It is fun and this year Ben was all about choosing his own pumpkin. He just picked it up and hauled to the wagon! Here are some pic from our trip on Sunday.

Uncle Aaron acting as chauffeur.

Ben with Mama's mini-pumpkin. Aunt Rachel told him to cheese!

This is the pumpkin Ben chose. It is all warty! He picked it up and tried to put it in the wagon then asked for help. So Matt picked Ben up and handed him the pumpkin!He was quite happy to ride around with his pumpkins!

The great debate.... I like to do a little display of small gourds. I was having trouble deciding. Maybe it has to do with my current situation, hmm...

There are allot of photo ops at the patch. Ben likes the pumpkin people, well most of them!

Hmm... is this one of my many uncles? You know this guy Uncle Aaron?

Well, he seems like an alright guy.

Oh is it time to get back in the wagon, I'm in!

Whoa! What's that?

He randomly likes to give people a hard time. Even people he really really likes like Aunt Rachel and Uncle Aaron! This was one of those times.

All in all a successful trip to the patch. Carving photos to come later! Happy Halloween!

The Best Costume Ever

This is Jack. Jack is Ben's age and friend from church. Jack is a little guy. His parents picked him the best costume ever! Yes, that is right. he is a Gnome!

First Halloween Party

It took some convincing to get him to put on his costume. He likes to look at it, but not so much wear it. But we got a couple of cute pictures before he insisted in taking it off.

The first order of business for Ben was not the treat table, no he wanted to color!

Then the kids went outside to do a pumpkin hunt. It was really cute because the little pumpkins opened like plastic Easter eggs and had little treats inside. Ben really liked the pumpkin hunt.

After the pumpkin hunt there was a candy corn bean bag toss. Ben was having a good time,but most of his attempts ended up on the table next to the wall. I could not convince him to step back!

Then, it was such a beautiful day, that the kids spent some time on the playhouse. Ben loves slides!

Then they went inside to play pass the pumpkin. 2 year olds need a little help with this game, once the figured it out they were all really into it! Ben won a wooden helicopter that he loves!

After pass the pumpkin we had a few treats and then went home. It was allot of fun!

TCA 5K

Dad won his division of the race! We attribute this to Ben's helping him stretch!

GQ

Ben being handsome.

Better than Trains?

There is only one thing Ben likes as well as his trains. Cars. especially racing them! Grammy sent him a race track, when he pulled the paper back enough that he could see it he started dancing and saying Yes! it was Hilarious!! This first pick is me keeping him occupied with his new dvd while matt furiously trys to get the race track out of the box. This happens to be a dvd of the Wiggles. We had never seen them before. On first fewing he was unsure, today on watching them again and a little dancing on the part of Mom, he is becoming a fan! They look like something he is really going to like as he gets used to them. Lots of music and dancing, right up this alley!

The track has a button you push to send the cars down. Matt only had to show him once! He plays with this alternately with the trains!

Thomas in the Tub

Ben is such a train fan, particularly Thomas the Tank engine and friends, that he even takes them to the tub! He got this cool boat with Thomas riding it for his b-day from the fam in TX. He loves it!

Trains! Trains! Trains!

Last year Ben's Aunt, Uncle and Cousins gave him a train table for Christmas. This year for his birthday he was given all the track and trains to go on it. Up until now he has used it for various trains for his age, but now he is ready! It took Everyone to get the track semi set up, but ben didn't care he was sooo excited! He plays with it continuously!

He especially likes that his matchbox cars also fit on the tracks! makes for longer trains!