Getting Ready for Christmas

As usual, we headed up to the land to get ourselves a nice Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Benjamin supervised while Daddy checked out a possibility.

We can not go to the land and NOT go sledding, so here we go!

Wow, face first Ben?!

And he’s off!

Yup, for real. A mom and Ben pic. Someone who shall go unnamed taught Ben how to eat snow… we really need to start working on the colors so we can teach him the yellow snow rule… .

On the way home it was Ben’s duty to hold the tree down! He took his job very seriously and did not let go of that rope once!

Styling, as usual, in his candy cane pants, helping Daddy with some Christmas beads.

Ben put the ornaments on very very high…

Thanksgiving

Yes, I know it is January. Bear with me. I’ve been busy.

Ben got a special Thanksgiving package from Grandma Margaret and Poppy! As he had yet to experience Christmas as a toddler, he needed some help getting the package open.   Don’t worry… he has had much more practice since then.

This turkey was actually a big hit…who does not like being chased around the living room by a turkey?

The turkey got forgotten, however, when the pumpkin bread was unwrapped! There is little Ben likes more than bread, especially when Daddy lets him eat directly off the loaf! His diet the next day was made up of about 80% pumpkin bread,  and I had to pretend that the piece I was giving him was ‘the whole loaf’ to steer away from a sure temper tantrum…

Only on a holiday would Ben get bread straight off the loaf and a whole chocolate turkey for himself. Lucky kid!