Cardinals and Tigers and Bears...Oh My!: Ben-uary

As I looked through the pictures from the past month, they all seemed to have one thing in common...Ben. He started the month showing us that even in his big boy bed he can get out of his footie pajamas, no problem.

He also learned the valuable lesson, that it is exhausting work pouting at Daddy for an entire evening.

I believe he was protesting dinner time when he passed out.

Everyone who sees Ben knows he is one cool kid. He wears his shades ALL the time!

We had one "warm" Saturday where Ben got to play outside with Daddy and Luke.

Daddy took the boys on a ride around the yard.

And last week we celebrated as Ben turned TWO!

We had pizza, opened presents...

SOCKS!

FRUIT SNACKS! (Yes, I wrapped up fruit snacks, that's what he kept saying he wanted for his birthday)

And then we had cake!

I had to stop him from blowing out the candle before we finished singing...I laughed and blew it out instead.

So we relit it and gave him another try.

It took a lot of spitting on the cake but he finally got it out.

And enjoyed his Mickey Mouse cake.

Then it was time for bed, in his new bed, under his new bedding from Grandma and Grandpa.

The boys loved having Grandma and Grandpa here. They spent a lot of their time cuddling with Grandma watching movies or seeing if Grandpa and Daddy needed help while they fixed the bedroom wall, the toilet, the garage door, and the insallation in the crawl.

This last week we made sure to get at least one day outside. Luke climbed a mountain!

And Ben made his own path through the snow.

And last night we had a bunch of friends over and ended up celebrating Ben's birthday again. We had pizza and cake and he even got to open a couple of presents.

Katrina bought him the missing piece to his cowboy collection. He had the horse, the boots, and we even bought him a hat for his birthday. But Katrina bought him the six shooters....and even bought a set for Luke!