Ben's deep thoughts

Today, over lunch, I shared this deep theological insight with Daddy:

"God is green. He has green eyes and a green shirt. Sammy thinks the grinch is God."

More spiritually in tune than the average preschooler? Perhaps.

Of course, in the same conversation I also came out with this gem:

"Brave women live in the pizza. Daddy and Ben are those women."

Daddy confusion

Today, when Mommy, Sam and I pulled into Leah's driveway, I noticed a car that I didn't recognize.
"Whose car is that?" I asked Mommy. "That's Leah's daddy's car" she replied. This news could not have been more shocking.

"Leah has a daddy?!" I exclaimed. "Yes, you know him" Mommy said. "What's his name?" I asked. "His name is Bryan". I made sure that I had my backpack with me because my camera was in there. I had told Mommy earlier that I wanted to bring my camera to take pictures of Leah and Leah's mom. "Mommy?" I said, jumping out of the car, "I'm not going to take a picture of Leah's daddy." Mommy told me that was fine.

Leah met us at the door, very excited to see us. "Guess who is here today? Daddy's here!" she said. "I have a daddy too", I told her "but he doesn't have a name. His name is just Daddy."

Glad we got that all cleared up.

Happy Valentine's Day

I made some valentines at school. The first one, you'll notice, is a big heart that says "Gymnastics!" Mommy and Daddy were a bit perplexed by this one, especially since the other kids' valentines said things like "I love you" and "Happy Valentine's Day".

When Mommy asked me about it, I told her that mine said "Gymnastics!" because "the falling down game is gymnastics." Mommy can only imagine the conversation that I had with my teacher while making this valentine at school. She imagines that I was told to write something about love and my thoughts went to my love of the falling down game, a game that Daddy and I made up. Since the falling down game is gymnastics, clearly, this I what I thought should be on my valentine.



I made this one for Mommy. It says "Mommy, I love you because you do things that I like to do."

(Check out how well I wrote my name! I had help but it's pretty good regardless, don't you think?)

Mommy loves both of my valentines and is going to keep them forever.

Ludwig van Giraffe

I enjoy listening classical music, particularly that of Ludwig van Beethoven. I am under the impression, however, that Beethoven is the cartoon giraffe on the cover of my "Baby Beethoven" CD. I often ask to listen to "the giraffe CD" while we're driving in the car. I also think that a giraffe is playing all the instruments. He is a very talented giraffe.

My favorite piece is "Ode to Joy" which I have renamed "The Octopus Song". Nobody is sure why this started, but whenever I hear "The Octopus Song", I sing "octopus and octopus and octopus!" over and over at the top of my lungs.

It is very dramatic and moving. Beethoven, the cartoon giraffe would be proud.

Cabin fever

Last week we had some cold snowy weather so we had to amuse ourselves at home as much as we could.

We made cookies. I wanted to make sprinkle cookies, since those are my favorite, but we didn't have all the ingredients or "gredients" as I call them. We made chocolate chip cookies, since those are Mommy's favorite. Luckily, we had all the "gredients" for those. Coincidence? I think not.



If you ask me, I will tell you that chocolate is my favorite snack. (Not my favorite food, that's chicken.) Once I realized that there were little pieces of chocolate involved in the preparation of chocolate chip cookies, I forgot all about the sprinkles.

We also built a fort and I hid in there from "the Shark Baby" (a.k.a. Sam). He couldn't find me. Best hiding place ever!




As a bit of wishful thinking, we played "beach" in the living room.



That was fun only until we realized there was no ocean in the living room.

Counting the days until Spring...

My real friends

My favorite friends are the ones I have known since my babyhood. I have other friends too from school and other places but when I talk about "my real friends", I mean a very specific group of people (Max, Leah, Zachary and Alexandra). Mommy asked me if I would like to have some of my school friends come over to play and I said no, I was "too busy building train tracks with Daddy" but I would like "my real friends" to come over sometime.

I also have decided that we (my real friends and I) are going to start a band. I got the idea when Mommy asked me if I'd like to learn how to play an instrument. I said yes, I would like to play the drums. Daddy has a drum set in our attic and I think it is super cool. I would love to get one just for me. This gave me a great idea for a band. I explained that I would play the drums, Zachy could play the trumpet, Leah would play the guitar and Max would play the piano. Alex would be the conductor, naturally. So far, the band exists only in my mind but I talk about it often.

As soon as I get the other musicians on board, we're really gonna rock.

Knock, knock

We all know that I am a pretty funny guy but did you know that I like telling knock knock jokes? I like to make them up myself.
Some of my favorites are:

Knock, knock
Who's there
Daddy
Daddy who?
Daddy Ben's Daddy

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Spider
Spider who?
Spiderman

Knock, knock
Who's there?
Daddy
Daddy who?
Daddy Spiderman