Growing

These kids of ours are growing up so fast! Ben is trying to talk all the time now and loves to try new words. I love this time of life where they can walk and kind of talk, but can't talk back! He loves to point out school buses as we're driving around and yells, "Bussss!" Ben's favorite things are cars, balls, and wrestling. All boy.

He is also pretty obsessed with football. If he sees Jared's Sports Illustrated magazine he'll sit down and carefully thumb through each page pointing out all the footballs and talking about the game (in his own language). Any time Jared turns the TV on, Ben runs into the room yelling, "Foo ball! Foo ball! Go, go, go!" and plops himself on the couch to watch a game. The other day we were teaching him all the football terms so we could impress people at parties. We taught him to say hike and tackle, and then kick, to which he put in a little demonstration, and throw, also which needed some pantomime. Pretty funny coming from such a little leg and arm.



Afton asks us every day if she has grown taller. She also gets really frustrated that it is taking so long for her to turn 4. Since her concept of time is still pretty skewed, telling her it is only three months away doesn't really help. She'll say stuff like, "I am so sick of being three! Why can't I just turn four right now???!!!" with a really good eye roll in there.