merry christmas to all

somehow i was roped into getting dave a foosball table for christmas. granted, it was very inexpensive, the money went to a good cause..oh and dave told me he would put it out back on our porch. he had a great plan of constructing a table top and it felt reminiscent of friends. well, it is now upstairs in our loft and has settled in nicely. i actually don't mind it as much as i thought i would-and we've used it a lot. b loves to play around with it-and his job is to put the ball through the shoot.
i had the nephews give the table a try as well and they loved it too. not sure who won that game (since they're all on the same side) but they had fun.so merry christmas to all who come to our house and enjoy some foosball~ just know that so far my husband has kicked some butt. (challengers?)

i like to move it move it

since his birth beniah has always been in motion. when he was a newborn his feet were constantly kicking, and in his own way i think he was dancing. i guess he was training for evenings of dance parties with his dad.

he is also really into climbing-and climbing everything hes not really *supposed* to be. he knows how to climb up onto our dining room chairs..and table. he climbs onto the coffee table..and everything in the garage..and has even scaled the toliet to look out the window above. so i resorted to a safe alternative-the playground.

our boy is getting bigger by the second!

Link of the Day

Obama's Christian Realism

beniah goes to college

all photos courtesy of kristina henry

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learning is fun!

i remember talking with a former boss about her child and all the new things he was learning. and it was amazing to think that everything that we know we have to learn-it seems very silly, i know, but i realized that you have to learn how to drink..how to speak..etc. and now that beniah is learning more and more it is so much fun to watch him grow in understanding.

coco, our dog, has one sweater that i will throw on him when it gets chilly. beniah laughed when i put the sweater on coco and has brought it over to coco several times when it was off. one time in particular it was on the stairs because it needed to be washed and beniah climbed up the stairs, brought it down to coco on the floor, and then put it on top of him. i told beniah that it was dirty and that we needed to clean it first and took it off of coco and headed toward the stairs...and then beniah burst into tears. he was so excited to see the sweater on coco!

beniah also loves to put socks and shoes on. whenever i tell him that we need to put his socks or shoes on he sits down on the floor and holds one foot up. it is so fun to see him connect the dots. he even reaches out to pull his velcro tab on his shoe to fasten it onto his foot.

occasionally i will take beniah along and go help or watch dave at vball practice. one day we walked it at the end and the girls were trying to serve 50 serves in a row so they were all lined up serving one after the other. beniah was standing on the sideline with me just watching when he raised his arm and thrust it to try to "serve" his own imaginary ball.

its amazing how our brains absorb so much information!

here are some photos from our trip to state last weekend: