Ben Busts a Move

We were at the end of a 5+ hour car ride, the kid was soo tired and on the verge of a meltdown or unconsciousness or both, and my husband was scanning through the AM stations looking for a football game when we accidentally discovered the oddest of triggers for some seriously sweet moves.

My little Kandinsky

After going through reams of paper in support of Ben's "art", I got the brilliant idea that giving him a dry erase board and markers would be easier on me (and the trees). The results are highly entertaining, even if I had to discover the hard way that dry erase markers do NOT come out of clothing, and are pretty stubborn about washing off of baby skin as well.




this one is longer, but there's some good stuff in the middle--he shows off some of his vocabulary.

Publish Post

Here come the posts...

It's been a long time since I've posted, but I thought I would put up a couple of videos that I've taken over the past month or so. These are repeats of some of the ones on my Facebook page, so no complaints if you follow both the blog and FB!

Family Pictures! (finally)

We finally had some family pictures taken, but more importantly, we finally documented exactly how adorable my son is! ;) I wish he would have been a little bit less serious, but I love how they turned out. It took me a long time to finally get around to it, but I'm glad i procrastinated long enough to find out that my friend Leah has a photography business doing beautiful natural lighting portrait photography. She did an AMAZING job, and I can't wait to get the prints in my hands so I can frame them and put them up on our vacant walls. Above are just a few of my favorites. The complete set of photos can be found on my facebook page. They were taken on the grounds of the Baptist Seminary in Wakeforest that was the original site of Wake Forest University before it moved to Winston Salem. Great location, adorable child, extremely talented photographer: made for a great photo session!!

Shopping, anyone?

Just for Grandma Gerry

Who needs presents when you've got cards?

1 Year Old!

Ben celebrated his first birthday on Sunday, the 22nd of February. We had a family party for him on Saturday, and were able to celebrate with his Grandpa Ralph, Grandma Tinka, Aunt Wendie, Uncle Bill, cousin Dylan, Aunt Colleen, and cousins Elise and Hanna. He loved being the center of attention! I handed my camera over to Hanna for most of the party and she took some great pictures, but far too many to include here. (To see them all, click here). I've included some of the best ones in this post.