Happy New Year!

Hello everyone,
I've been a little busy lately. Mom and Dad have taken me to lots of fun places and I have been busy playing with all of my new toys. Santa came to our house and brought me lots of new things and the box truck also brought lots of exciting things from family and friends. I've been having a good time on vacation away from school. Mom is having fun too! I don't think she should go back to work. I want her to stay home with me. I am also having a lot of fun with Dad. He makes me laugh and we do silly things together. Here are some other exciting things I got to do and see from the last week or so:

• I went to a Christmas party at Aunt Elisabeth and Uncle Tom's. I got to play with Keebyn and I kept crawling all over her.
• I went on a choo-choo train to see Santa with Aunt Joan. She also made me dance with her.
• I got to see Santa again at the mall. How did he get from the choo-choo at the museum to the mall so fast?? He kind of gave me the creeps. Mom wanted me to sit on his lap. What's that all about? Are you crazy. I sat next to him, but I was not going to let go of mom's hand. Didn't you all teach me not to go with strangers?
• I got to see my Aunt Chris and Uncle Rick. They brought baby Abby over to see us and I even got to hold her. She is very cute and I can't wait until she's old enough so I can play with her.
• Dr. Lawrence says I am a healthy kid! And I didn't even have to get any shots! Yippee! Dad still calls me a shrimp boat captain, 'cause I am only at the 15th percentile for height and about 25th for weight, but my head circumference is at the 75th, so I am a smart boy because I have a big head!
• Santa brought me a cool motorcycle thing to ride on. It's green. I also got a football. I like to play with it in the house and outside. It bounces funny.
• Mica stole my fort and sleeping bag that Nana sent, but I still get to fix up Mommy with my doctor's kit. Mica can't figure out how to get the stethoscope in her ears.
• I got to play with Luke's cars.
• I went to the museum in Raleigh with my friends Sabrina and Josephine. I got to drive a bus, get in a big boat, play with water, see some fish, and play with trains.
• I ate ice cream three times.
• Our friends Hayley, Quinn, James, and Sofia came to visit. They live in Asheville now and mommy really misses them. I got to kiss Sofia! But it was so embarrassing because both mommy and Hayley took pictures of us. But I do have to say she is very cute.
• And one day I had two blue yummies for breakfast!
• Mom let me watch Cars a bunch of times!

So you can see I have been having lots of fun! You can see some pictures from the last couple of weeks, including the kiss that I will remember forever in my Photo Album of the Week. I hope you all had as nice as a Christmas as we did and Happy New Year!

Love, Ben

I'm 2!

Today I turned two! I am such a big boy and I even spent all day in the Stars Room at school. I got to take a nap in the Star room and more importantly I got to play on the big kid playground. I have been waiting for months for this day. There are so many more cool things about the big playground, more dump trucks, slides, and a climbing wall. I brought cupcakes to school to share with my friends and when I came home we had a party, well sort of! Mom promises she will plan a real party next year, but that this year it was kind of last minute. I had fun playing with Luke and Lilly. Mommy and Daddy got me a Lightening McQueen car cake. It was so cool. And I blew out two candles, well sort of. Thank you to all of my friends and family for all the cool presents. Mommy let me open a couple, but then she made me go to bed. I have a big day tomorrow. We are going to visit Dr. Lawrence in the morning, then tomorrow night we go to the Santa Train!! Mom says she will post a lot of pictures later. But I am twwwooooooo......and not so terrible!

It's coming!

It's coming! It's coming! That's Christmas I mean. This weekend mom and dad finally started to get in the holiday spirit. First we went to a holiday parade. I got to see lots of wee-ooh, wee-oohs (firetrucks), some horses, and then I saw Santa, who says ho ho ho. It was pretty cool. Then we put sand and candles in bags just like all my friends on the street did. I got to play outside in the street in the dark! And I got to go play at my friend Luke's house. He has lots of cars, even more than me. We also bought a tree this past weekend. The man put the tree on top of mommy's car. At first I thought it was a boat, but mommy kept telling me it was a tree. Now the tree is in our house. Mica, my cat, likes to roll around under it and Kuku tries to drink the water. It's really pretty. Mommy says we still have things to hang in it. I also had fun playing in the leaves and going to the mall. Aunt Joan even came over to play with me. I made her lie on the floor and pretend to go nigh-nigh. I know my colors now for sure. I can tell what's white, black, boo, geen, orange, purple, red and even ellow (my new favorite word). And I can even tell stories. Last weekend I told mom a story about a boopball (football) player that got a boo boo and there was a wee-ooh wee-ooh that had to come help him. I saw this on the wee-wee (TV) when daddy was watching boopball. It took mom a long time to figure out was I was telling her, but she finally got it.

Next week I turn twwwwoooo! I'm going to eat cake and ice cream for dinner! Maybe even for two nights in a row!