We celebrated Ben’s 5th birthday last month. He’s such a fun, interesting little guy. Loves his legos, star wars, kitties, chicken wings and figuring out how to spell words (all the time). He’s full of questions, a good thing, but exhausting because it’s so constant :) Ben’s doing great in school too, excellent first quarter report from his teacher. He’s started reading too, it’s the coolest thing! Just very basic things now, but he’s definitely soaking it all up like a sponge.

He’s such a sweet guy too. The other day Cassidy got mad about something (occurs daily…hourly…) and ran into her room and slammed the door. Ben knocked on the door and asked if he could give her a hug to make her feel better. Cassidy promptly opened the door, screamed “NO BEN!” and slammed the door in his face. He came back and said “Cassidy’s not very nice today.” I told him we have to love her anyway ;-)

We had such a fun time celebrating Ben’s birthday with friends and family :)