Welcome Home John Angelo!

I will be posting pictures from our vacation soon, but first I wanted to write about what a special day today is. Christy, Mike & Gabriel returned from the Philippines with our new nephew/cousin John today! We are so excited to have a new addition in the family and we can't wait to meet him. I especially like that he and Ben are close in age. I think they will have a lot of fun together!

Play Ball!

We went to a Bowie Baysox game this afternoon. The weather didn't really cooperate, but Ben had fun. He rode a carousel twice, ate ice cream, watched some baseball and ran around the concourse. He was running during the 7th inning stretch but stopped in his tracks when they started to play Take Me Out to the Ballgame which is one of his favorite songs.

Batter up!

Weekend pics

One Two Three

Ben seems to be close to a big breakthrough with his speech. In the past week he has said: Bye Da (when Josh was leaving for work on Monday), truck, all done, hot dog, again, big kids and three (dee). For the most part he has only said the new words once or twice, but it's been very exciting.

Ready for school?!

At playgroup today Ben sat in a chair and drew with the magnadoodle for about 5 minutes. He looked like such a big boy! And if we didn't have enough proof that Ben listens to EVERYTHING we say, I was on the phone with Josh telling him how playgroup went while Ben ate lunch. I was telling Josh about another little boy who was throwing his snack on the floor today and Ben immediately started throwing his lunch on the floor!

New pics

Starting with Grammy's visit a few weeks ago and ending with pictures from Grandma's birthday this weekend, here's what Ben's been up to...