Opening Day!

Another opening day and it might have been rainy, but at least we won! After the game we went to scope out the new Ballpark Village with Katie and Jack...it was AWESOME!!!

Easter Activites

Yesterday Benjamin and I went to my sisters for some fun Eater activities. We made snacks and dyed eggs. We are all ready for the Easter bunny now...

Helping (making more of a mess!)

Nests!

Drawing on our eggs

Benjamin loves eggs so much he was trying to eat them

Yes, I took his clothes off so he didn't dye them :)

Our Easter baskets (so proud of myself on these!)

Fishing!

Granddad wanted to go fishing so we jumped at this opportunity to take Benjamin for the first time. We went to Maramec Spring Park in St. James this past Sunday and it was a perfect day to go, it was a little bit breeze in the shade but in the sun it was beautiful! Benjamin had interest for the first 15 minutes and then wanted to run around which was ok because I couldn't fish because I didn't have a license. Her are some photos of our fun...

Ready for the road trip!

Fishing with Kaleb!

Telling Great Granddad what color his line is

Showing daddy how to fish

Looking at all the fish

Walking with Grams

Family photo in the cave

Didn't even make it to the highway before he was passed out...

Sunday Funday

Sunday it got cold again so we decided to take Benjamin to the science center for the first time. The two things I remember as a kid was the ramp over the highway and the big dinosaur, they are both still there if you were wondering. Benjamin didn't want to leave the dinosaur, he kept saying "hi" and "bye-bye" to it.

 

Our second cake of the weekend!

Touching Mars!

Balls

They are still creepy to me

Playing in the "dirt"

 

 

Afterwards we went to Dogtown for lunch at this little place called Nora's, it was so good and look what we saw...our third cake of the weekend

Date Night

Saturday night my boys took me out for a date night. We went to Fortel's for pizza and then Ted Drewes for some ice cream.

Playing in the arcade!

 



Our first cake we saw this weekend

 

BBQ Season

It was so nice yesterday that David and I decided to to our first BBQ this year. David grilled some strip steaks, I made homemade mash potatoes, corn and salad. Benjamin went down for a nap so late that we actually got to eat by ourselves which made it feel like a date night. It was so good...

Yes, David eat everything on that plate, plus some!

Little Fishy

Since this summer we are going to a beach house I only thought it would be appropriate to have Benjamin take swim lessons. We tried the YMCA last year and he didn't learn much except to splash in the bathtub. Yesterday was our first class since the first one got cancelled due to weather. The only weekend time they had available was on Sundays at 2:30pm which clearly was right in the middle of his nap time. Luckily with day light savings yesterday he did great. He loved it and when we got out he kept saying "more...mama...more". We learned so much just in the first class, which will be repetitive over the next couple months. The one thing that I really like was they teach him how to get out of the pool from the side: elbow, elbow, tummy, knee, knee. I actually caught Benjamin doing it later that night trying to climb on something. He sure is going to be a little fishy by the end of this summer.

Learning to stir the stew

Going down the slide (well under water)