Tiny bubbles

Or in this case, micro beads. You are asking yourselves "what's a micro bead?" Well...here's the story.

Tuesday Ben was upstairs "resting" and was supposed to stay in his bed until otherwise instructed. He got up to potty, which is allowed certainly but returned to the big bed instead of his own. Usually this would be fine but for some reason he decided to hunt for my pink micro bead pillow. Now I usually have this put away because I fear there being micro beads everywhere so it was placed in the cradle as not to attract certain little boys. Anyhoo, Ben took the pillow, returned to his room and commenced jumping on it.

Now it was towards the end of he's allotted "rest time" so I didn't fuss about his jumping. Perfectly normal nearly 4 behavior. However if I had known what he was jumping on...that would have been a different matter all together.

Eventually Ben called downstairs to ask if rest time was over. I said yes and headed up the stairs to open the gate. He called out "Don't come up here mommy." Oooh, noes. You never want to hear that so I just opened the gate, and went back downstairs. He came along in a few minutes calling "Mom! I'm a prickly pear!" You guessed it...he was covered with tiny micro beads from head to toe...and the condition of his room? A light covering of micro beads that looked a bit like a dusting of snow. There was a hole in the pillow.

So now we have determined that we will be finding micro beads around the house, the next house and so on quite possibly for the rest of our days.

Sam Sam is on the move!

Sam is on the go these days. Right now he is crawling after his brother trying desperatly to keep up. No luck Sam Sam, you'll have to be faster little guy. He is also starting to figure out how to pull up. He likes to grab your shirt, pull himself to standing and wrap his little arms around your neck. This makes sucking on your chin easier. He is a video of him pulling up to look over the back of the couch.

Cooking with Ben

Ben making pasta marinara with his Electrolux appliances. :)

Strawberries, boys and diapers...

Sam has become Sir Poopsalot. We are going through diapers like it's going out of style. It seems like you change him and then he gets the tell tale look on his face, you sigh and head for the changing table again. His brother always had the opposite problem so this is new for us.

Benjamin managed to fall off of the bar stool last evening and land on his back looking up at me like "how'd you let that happen, mom?" He cried for 5 minutes and had to be carried around for a little longer. It must have really startled him because he usually only cries for 15 secs.

We have strawberries and every morning Benjamin likes to go out and find the red ones. After careful inspection to make sure they are all red, they are plucked off the plant and eaten. Ben does not share them...they are his to be sure. We only have a few plants so there is usually somewhere between 1-3 berries each morning. Marcy had better hope that Ben doesn't remember that she has strawberries planted about the fish pond....or he'll want those too!! :)

Avocados, Please!

Sam has been getting avocados at dinner time. Next week he'll get something different. He has been demanding to be included in the eating festivities so mom caved and let's him have a little something.