Busy busy busy!

It's been a busy week or so around here!

Last weekend we trekked up to Traderspoint Creamery, where we enjoyed their Free Cone Day (the ice cream was good, but I still haven't had anything that compared to Miller's Ice Cream near Oberlin). We also got to see chickens and cows. It was fun, though Matt and I agreed that we need to find some farms that do tours and stuff nearer to us!

Bennett sat around in his underwear (it's actually a very trim pull-on style diaper. I love these!!) looking out the window with Boomer.
It rained for a couple days, and I needed something fun to do with Bennett in the house that didn't involve making a huge mess (because I was determined to get the house in some semblance of order before we left for a roadtrip the next day!).

My solution was to inflate his pool and set it up in the living room. It was actually really awesome and now I want to build forts with him every rainy day!

You can't see it, but he's got a prune in his hands here....

Obviously, prunes and pools are really fun!

He kept "dancing" on it - the bottom was kind of bouncy. So fun!

I SEE YOU!!

Matt and Bennett enjoying the "fort" -- we tipped the pool over so it baracaded them in.

"Why is Daddy stalking me?"

Thursday we left for Tennessee to see a friend of mine and her 11-month-old daughter. Everything I read said it was a 7 hour drive. With Bennett, it took 10 hours going and about 9 getting back :-)

Bennett's got his popper - he's ready to hit the road!

We went to a cute children's museum while we were in Tennessee. There were lots of little things to pick up, carry around, and scream about when a mom tried to take....

We're back now, and it's obvious to Matt after our absence how quickly Bennett's skills change and develop. His words are clearer and there are more of them. And he's really starting to imitate sounds as much as he is capable. Tonight he kept pushing buttons on one of his (thankfully few!) electronic toys that makes sounds of an elephant, a dog, and a bird. He kept trying to imitate the dog and elephant. He just made his sign for bird at that sound, though.