Coloring

Tonight Benny colored permanent marker all over our white pantry door (in our rental house). Surprisingly I reacted very calm. Sean got on the internet to see if there were any brilliant ideas to remove permanent marker. We tried Ajax and liquid dish soap, which really lightened it up. Then we tried hairspray and a lot of muscle and we got it mostly off (the corners have a little hint of light blue, but most people wouldn't ever notice). Yay!

Bath Buddies

Ben loves taking baths...especially with his bath buddies, his sisters. I love to watch them play together. Even when we are at a church activity or a play group, Caelan and Ben (and Megan is starting to join in their fun a little more) just love to play with each other. One of their favorite things to do whenever we got to Grandpa and Grandma Dicks house is to play in their master bathtub. It has a great little slide on one side (not really a slide, but a good decline that the kids love to use as a slide). They climb up on the side of the tub and scoot over to edge and slide down....over and over and over again.

"Bue-ing" Guy

We were in the car the other day and Ben trying to tell me something. I can pretty much communicate with him about most anything these days, but I could not for the life of me figure out what he wanted. He kept saying something about a "bue-ing guy". I asked him about several things that I thought he could mean: something blue, something new, something about blowing, etc, etc. I was not getting it - he knew it and I knew it. Eventually we just had to settle on that. The next day we were in the car and he had brought along a few of those little plastic green army guys. From the front seat I could hear him playing with his guys and then I heard it, "bue, bue, bue." It was his little army guys fighting...and it dawned on me: "bue-ing guy" meant his little army men. HA! Love it.

Halloween 2007

I found a cute little Fiona princess dress at K-Mart two days before Halloween. It was 50% off, and even though it was a little big I bought it anyway. Then I thought it would be so cute for Ben to be Shrek. The costume wasn't too difficult to put together. He wore a sweater of mine and some dress socks of Sean's. I constructed the ogre ears using green duct tape and fastened them to a headband. I made the brown vest out of an old brown towel and quickly sewed the two front ties onto it. We painted his face green and he was set. Super cute. We had a fun Halloween party at the church. They have a great Trunk-or-Treat each year - lots of lots of people from the community come as well. The kids made out with full bags of candy.

Pee-Pee

Ben went pee in the toilet this morning. It was the first (and only) time so far. Progress. - Yay!