Catching Up!

So I have been slacking recently. Since it is 4 am and I can't sleep here comes the update!
Benson has been pretty fun recently. He has been playing more by himself and a while I ago I went and checked on him and he was cleaning up his mega blocks in his room.

He just likes to look at himself in the pictures after I take them.

Well I think he may be more interested in the camera but I keep fooling myself!

Daniel is pretty good at helping me with Benson when he gets home from class. I love it! He is the best husband I could have asked for... Love you!

I think Bens has seen me do this a time or two! He loves to settle in on the couch with a blanket. Often if we get up he will have stolen our seat and blanket by the time we get back!

I put my housecoat on Bens a couple weeks ago. I think he liked it because the next day we were in his room and he undid my housecoat and started tugging at it. He was finally happy when I put it on him and rolled the sleeves up.

Some of Bens' new favorite things to do is taking off his clothes and asking for a bath (we have had to start spelling it out so he won't start chanting for it) and putting on his jackets. He has the right idea, he just doesn't understand that sometimes it is upside down!

So Daniel is doing well this term. He seems to have settled into his schedule. Mid terms will be coming up soon so I will be a study widow before too long.

I have been doing well. I haven't been too sick with this pregnancy which is great! I could however sleep at any given moment though, well except for right now. We have caught a cold that seems to be making its way around.

On Friday we have our ultrasound! Yay! We are looking forward to it because we are finding out what we are having this time. Daniel and I are pretty sure it is a girl. Daniel secretly hopes we won't have a girl until we are out of school but what can you do?

Like I mentioned before Benson has started to say Bath. Pretty well anytime he is in the bathroom he starts asking for a bath. When we tell him it is time to go to bed he knows the routine. He will lead me up the stairs to the bathroom and get ready for the bath. There have been a few times he has gotten so excited that he has actually climbed in with his clothes on!

Bens has also started asking for Juice this week. He is slowly starting to talk more which is nice. Most of it is babble but we have made out bath, door, juice and ball. He points at a lot of things that he wants as well. After our night time prayers he often looks at me and points to his pillow saying he wants me to lay beside him. I put my head on the pillow for a few minutes and then leave. He is such a cute little guy!

Well this has gotten really long! I will leave it here for now! Stay tuned to find out what we are having! Have a good week!

Benson's Little Secret!

I have a little secret I have been keeping!

Can you guess what it is?

It made me so happy!!

Will you giggle like me when you find out?

I was even rolling on the floor!

Then I wasn't too sure...

I might not be the center of attention anymore!

But one thing is for sure--I'll be the best big brother ever.

Surprise! Mommy is due the end of June!

Christmas Time

There is just a taste of our Christmas this year. We forgot our camera in Portland so thank-you Mom for sending me these pictures! If anybody else has pictures from this Christmas with our family I would love it if you would send them to me... Thanks! Happy New Year everyone!

I'll Be Home For Christmas!

So we finally made it home for Christmas! After a week of being unaware of whether Daniel was actually going to be writing his exams (he got 2/6 written... yuck) we left for the Great White North known as Canada.

We got up at 5 on Friday morning and made it out of the house by 6. The worst roads were just outside of Portland due to no plows. We made great time until just after Coure D'Alene, Idaho when our speedometer went nuts, our cruise control quit and we couldn't go any higher than 3 gear. We drove crazy slow to Missoula, Montana and got a hotel for the night. Thank you Motel 6 for being cheap! The local Dodge dealership got us in first thing on Saturday morning for a lot cheaper than it could have turned out to be. The sensor on our transmission went so it just had to be replaced. We were back on the road by 9:30 and we made it to my parents house that afternoon.

We are so grateful to be with our family for Christmas and that our van should behave itself from now on. Daniel is up in Banff tonight with his Dad and brothers for a ski trip tomorrow. He should be having fun. All four of them haven't been able to go together in quite a few years so this should be great for them.

Benson was pretty good on the trip. He has taken to using the full capacity of his lungs though. that made for 'fun' times in the car. He has been doing really well sleeping in the double bed here at my parents. He doesn't have to even get off the bed when he is playing around before actually falling asleep.

I hope everybody has a very Merry Christmas! All those that are traveling I hope you have good weather and a less eventful trip than ours. We love you and will be on again sometime after Christmas!

Snow Day?

So this morning woke up to this outside. No big deal! I remember that we were asked to give talks in church but had forgot until Bens was eating breakfast. Daniel was in bed still and I yelled up to him in a panic. We were told to use any topic so Daniel said we could use one of our 2 talks from the summer. I calmed down until I remembered our printer doesn't work.


The phone rang and my visiting teacher told me that Church was canceled! What a relief! So we had a nice relaxing day at home playing games and had some friends over for dinner. These are pictures that I took just after we got the call about church. There is more snow on the ground now but still a lot less than is on the ground back home! Daniel's exams for tomorrow has been postponed until the first Friday of next semester. Hopefully the school will be open on Tuesday!


Here are a couple pictures of Bens enjoying a Costco chocolate muffin. I love his blacked out teeth!

So this was the most excited we got Benson to look while sitting on Santa's lap. The pictures didn't quite capture the "And I am sitting on his lap because?..." look quite but this explains enough!

It's been a while!

Well going back almost a month ago we did celebrate Daniels Birthday! We had friends over for cake and we talked all night. It was great!


We got some Chinese food a while ago and Benson liked it a lot!


His favorite is Sweet'n'Sour Chicken but he was enjoying his fortune cookie in this picture.


Bens has taken a liking to wearing our shoes. This is the first time he started to walk around with them though.


Bens wanted to wear some socks but he had sleepers on so I put on his dog slippers and put the socks on the dogs ears. It seemed to please him. He walked around kicking his feet up... it was pretty cute!


Benson has started to put his sunglasses on himself. Yay! He puts them on top of his head crooked!


Here is our Christmas tree ($30 at Big Lots... pre-lit). Benson helped me decorate it. Now he knows he can touch the tree if he uses one finger. Unfortunately he uses his finger to jab violently at the ornaments!

Bens has gotten attached to his hat recently. When he wakes up in the morning or after a nap he goes a puts it on.

This is his other hat. I found him walking around in the kitchen wearing this as a hat. So creative!


Between all his mischief he is an absolute angel while he sleeps! We woke him up so he could go to the babysitters while we went out.


He didn't want to wake up. Poor guy cried for about 20 minutes.


Showing off all of his muscles!


Daniel and I went to a Christmas Gala his school put on on Saturday. There was great food and music and dancing. We took the classic 'going to Prom' picture at home first.


We try and get Benson to have a nap before Church every week sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. He was playing in his room and just zonked right out!


I love it when he sleeps with his bum in the air. You know that he is really tired then!

Not too much else is going on. We are counting down to Christmas! Daniel started his last week of classes today and has his exams all next week. Then we are off to the Great White North for 2 weeks! Yeah! Have a great week. I may add some videos later so keep on your toes!