Spinners VIP

Daddy and I went to a special event at LeLacheur Park with my friend Emily and her dad. We got to meet a bunch of the Spinners players and they all signed my new hat!


Me and Emily...


There was a Star Wars sign. How awesome is that?

Hmmm....are any of these guys famous? I really couldn't tell ya. Maybe someday.





Posing on the field...

It's my party...

The crazy hot weather is gone, but the torrential downpours made my outdoor party at Great Brook Farm a little, um, interesting. Nevertheless, I was psyched to see my school friends and my friends from babyhood all in one place. We moved our little shindig indoors to the ice cream shop, ran around and watched the cows.

It was all good.

(Mental note to the party planning committee: No more outdoor birthday parties. Even in July.)

Mr. Five-Year-Old!

I am FIVE!


Mommy made me a LEGO cake.


I was very excited with all the cool stuff that I got from my friends and family.









The weather was ridiculously hot for my birthday this year so I chose to spend the day inside, with the AC on, playing with my new legos!


After all the LEGO-ing, I headed out for a special birthday dinner with Max (my best friend in the galaxy) and then back home for birthday cake. Best.Day.Ever.

(Again, my blog editor apologizes for the lack of a touching picture montage and blames the lifeless computer that holds the majority of the pictures. It will be up eventually!)

Run, Ben, Run!

My friend Alex and I ran our first (2 mile!) road race with our parents and our little brothers (in strollers).

Here we are before the race. We were very excited.


Running, running, running...




Mommy and me at the finish line...



After the race we relaxed and settled in for the very long parade!

The Graduate

After much dedication and hard work, I graduated from pre-k. My parents, brother and grandparents were in attendance and I was very proud.



These are my awesome teachers Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. Sullivan. I am going to miss them as I move on to bigger and better things!



(My mom did take movies of some of the songs we sang at our Graduation program. Unfortunately, these are stuck on her laptop which is more of a "former computer" at the moment. We will work on recovering those so that everyone can see them!)

See my muscles...

Yeah, I'm pretty strong.

Cleveland

I took a trip to Cleveland, Ohio to visit my family.

On the way we stopped at the Arkon Art Museum...


Then I got tired...



Do you like my shirt?



We went to the coldest baseball game ever..



Then I got tired...


It was a fun trip!

My first pet

This is my fish. I named him Luke (as in "Skywalker")

Happiness

Happiness is good friends and light sabers.

It's sidewalk chalk season!

Some early morning coziness

You can't possibly be serious

Looking for Green

Today was pretty warm for March so we went outside to play! We thought it would be fun to search for green things.
We found some flowers starting to grow so we took a picture



Then we took pictures of other green things too, just to be funny.

The green pail...


Sam's shoes...


I sat in the leaf pile that seems a lot smaller now that it's been under the snow for several months.



I pushed Sam on the swing because I am the best big brother ever. He liked it a lot.




Yay for Spring!

I think we're going to need a bigger sandbox

November 2008


March 2010

Jedi Knights

My apologies...

Once again, dear blog readers, I must beg your forgiveness. My busy pre school and playdate schedule has prevented me from giving you the attention you deserve and I promise to fix the situation.




Stay tuned for more adventures...

Use the force, Ben

After a year of planning to be The Hulk for Halloween, I went to the dark side and decided to go with the Darth Vader costume instead. I am a huge Star Wars fan and, although I am a good guy in real life, I like to pretend to be a bad guy sometimes because they have the red lightsabers.



We had a Halloween party at school and my whole class dressed up in costumes. My friend Brendan dressed up as Anakin Skywalker. Of course I was "Anakin, the later years"


Guess which one is me.


Now that Halloween is over, Sam and I practice our dueling skills because you never know when they'll come in handy.

Chickeney

Many children have a "lovey". Mine is a rubber chicken. My daddy caught this chicken as it was thrown into the crowd at a Spinners game this past summer. First, we named the chicken George and he sat in the toy box for awhile. I found him again and named him "Chicken Ben" because I like to name things after myself. Once we shared a name, I felt more attached to the chicken and decided he should sleep in my bed instead of in the toy box. His name eventually changed to "Chickeney", no one can remember why, although I still call him "Chicken Ben" once in awhile.
If you ask me about Chickeney, I will tell you that he can talk. He only talks to me though, the rest of my family has yet to witness this talent.
A few mornings ago, on my way to the potty, I left Chickeney on Mommy and Daddy's bed so he could take a nap while I was pottying. In my rush, I almost forgot to turn the light on in the room. Chickeney likes to nap with the light on.
Good thing I remembered, he would have complained.

Party Games

Last week I went to my friend Alexandra's birthday party. There was a game of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey", which is something new for me. I didn't like the idea of wearing a blindfold, so I promised to close my eyes really tight.

My Pumpkin Pics

2005: Tiny Ben and the Baby Squash


2009: Super Ben T-Rex and the Jumbo Pumpkins