Update

We have been busy this past week.  We haven't had a lot on the "schedule" but we've been doing our best to stay busy.  We went to the grocery store and were bugged (and followed out to our car) by the bagger lady...I tried my best to be patient.  I was successful, but I almost lost it on a socially unaware innocent victim!

Ben and I made dinner a few nights this week.  Nothing special, and he always ended up eating nuggets or PB&J anyway.
Chris was away in LA for a meeting but then he came home Friday night along with Uncle Francisco.  Yay!  Ben has learned how to say "tio" and this morning he said some version (?) of "Buen dia". 

We are moving back home in 2 weeks, so we are going to enjoy our last bit of time here in Colorado.  Today is supposed to be 60 degrees and sunny so I think we'll go for a run/walk on the trails.  They definitely don't have those in CT and we will miss walking out our door to see the mountains and walk on a safe, open trail. 

Here are some new pics: Ben getting into the bread when I turned my head for a second, watching Elmo clips on YouTube (the Adam Sandler clip is his favorite), getting into the spice cabinet (no Ben!), celebrating a late Hanukkah, and going down the slide at the indoor playground all by himself (yay for pregnant mommy not having to chase him up and down that thing anymore!):

Our two babies

Little boy's best friend. 

King of the playground

It is super windy today, but very nice out. Hard to complain! Here are some pics of Ben enjoying the playground.

Nothing to wear

This is what Ben is currently wearing today. He refused to put his pants back on after a diaper change, but insisted on the vest so he could practice with the zipper. ("up! Dooownnn!")

It's like the Shel Silverstien poem "Something's Missing"... : )

Party pics

This weekend Ben went to his friend Claire's birthday party. He ruled the roost as the only boy.  However, I find this picture to be great:

The girls playing basketball and Ben pushing the dolls in the stroller.  Love it!!

And this one is just cute...  ; )

Lightening McQueen

Awesome new PJ's. :)

Update in Photos

Chris is traveling this week to Vegas.  For "work"....hehehe!  He really does have work, but I'm sure he's doing a fair amount of play as well...
In the mean time, Ben and I are holding down the fort with Suzy dog.  We've been lucky to have great weather the past few days and have been out on the trails a lot, gone to the playground and walked around our neighborhood quite a bit.

Here are some pics.

Here is Ben pointing at "big ducks (trucks)" at the construction site across the street:

Here he is in the sandbox on a beautiful January day:

Here he is practicing sitting on the potty he got for Christmas.  We haven't quite gotten up the guts to actually try to use it yet...

Here we are making sliders for lunch.  He just sucked the cheese off the top and fed the beef to Suzy dog.  Everyone was happy except Mama!

And, finally, here he is watching Cars (again).  Shout out to Dana for sending us the DVD!  Now we can watch the whole movie and not have to fast forward through the commercials!  (What?  You don't watch your movies sitting in a laundry basket and looking behind you at the screen?)