Ben Gets on the Bus

Ben went back to school today after a week of missing it due to the cold. This first picture is of him getting on the bus, which pulls up to our house. He had breakfast with Daddy this morning and a cookie for the road (which you're not supposed to bring on the bus, apparently!).

Other pictures taken last night include an extreme close up of Daddy taken by Ben, who just had to use the camera, and a few of Mommy and baby Megan together (though Megan wasn't fully cooperating; it was her ni-night time). We'll get some more of Jeffrey eventually. :)

-Brian

All Dressed Up!

Megan went to Church in this outfit today; Mommy got her all dressed up. The boys looked handsome as well. When we got home, Shelly made us beef enchiliadas and baked a batch of cookies. The boys licked the beaters and Jeffrey pulled all of the utensils out of the cupboards. It's a good life....

:)

Aren't they cute?

Hope you like the pictures we took with our new camera; had to finally break down and get one. Megan is smiling and cooing all the time now. Today, Jeffrey and Benjamin were climbing around on the couch by her (well, okay... kind of on her too) and they were laughing at her while she laughed back at them.

These last two pictures are of Ben triking around in the basement where we spend most of our time. You will notice that he has ingeniously placed his bowl full of dry cereal on the back. Meals on wheels!

Looking forward to seeing Grandma Heaton and "The Grandpa!" this week for Megan's blessing. Hope you all are doing well.

Love,

Brian.

Hurray!

Hurray! I have a working camera again! More pictures to come just as soon as I can take them! :)

One for the books.

I've been having issues with my camera battery again (surprise surprise) so I haven't posted pictures for a while. Anyway, I have a story I wanted to write down so the boys can know what it was like for me raising them when they were toddlers toddling everywhere.

Yesterday I was picking Ben up from his speech therapy appointment with Jeffrey and Megan in tote. Well there is a Grandmother there that loves to talk, and as everyone knows, I love to talk too, so it was a bad combination. I sent the boys out in the hall to wait for the elevator and then I went back in to grab Megan only to come out and find the boys nowhere to be found in the 5 story building (we were on the 3rd floor). I wasn't sure what to do, I could hear them in the elevator, but I couldn't get the door to open, so I got on the elevator next to it and went down to the 2nd floor hoping to find them. What I found was Ben standing there by himself and very proud of himself for sending his brother back on down to the first floor. I could hear people talking about what a cute little boy they had found and wondering where his mommy was. It sounded so near that I searched the entire 2nd floor thinking he was there, but it was just me being able to hear into the elevator shaft again and eventually a woman from the bank below and the grandmother I had been talking to came out with a very smiley Jeffrey. To top it all off, the woman at the bank gave them both suckers once we got to the bottom floor! I now know that I have to be carefull around elevators because Ben is all too eger to ship his brother off and knows how to do it too! There, that's my bad mom story of the week and thought I'd share. Pictures of the kids to come soon. -Shelly-