Any other Dinosaur Train families? Ben pretends my legs are his “time tunnel” and dives through them occasionally.

Ben shared his Bear with one of the other little boys at the Y. When I picked the kids up from childwatch I told Ben “That was very nice of you to let Aiden play with Bear Bear.” Ben responded “I know.”

I told him I needed to go downstairs to get dressed after my shower (I was in a bathrobe). He responded “Me help?” Uhm, no thanks kiddo.

I told Ben I needed to feed Cassidy and he asked “With a bottle or with your things?” I just about died, too funny.

He was reading instructions on the headrest of his carseat and said in a very stern voice “This says sit down now!”

Andy brought our burgers and hot dogs in from the grill and Ben said “Cause hot dogs are kind of like meat.”

We were at the doctors getting our well visit shots and afterwards Ben said “Maybe next time I can get a nice shot.”

“I think I need a donut for my cough” – not much else you can say to that.

He was particularly annoyed with Cassidy one morning and complained “Moooommy Cassidy’s looking at my ear.”

Ben: Can I do playdoh now?
Me: OK, can we clean up your magnets first
Ben: Uhm how about you clean up my magnets and I’ll watch

We had our first warm summer thunderstorm the other day so we went outside to play.

I’m so bad about doing “crafty” things with Ben. We color, do playdoh, legos, etc but I just find it hard to plan cute little projects. Andy had a roll of brown packing paper downstairs and I got inspired. We traced Ben’s outline onto the paper and had him color on some clothes and decorate with stamps and stickers.

He actually surprised me, I’ve just seen him scribble before but this time he drew his hat, eyes, mouth and nose. I drew the outline of his shirt, but he decided it should be green (like what he was wearing) and colored in the middle with green marker.

He’s giving himself some shoes.

Cutie :) I just got a glimpse of his 17 year old self.