Ben and Sam

Uncle Jon came to visit - and Ben is having a blast with him!
Jon is wore OUT!
Cloudy likes Uncle Jon lots too -- today at the zoo when I put him down to walk - he looked up at Jon for a bit and then reached up and grabbed his hand.. I think it startled Jon a bit.. but OH SO CUTE..


Ben lost his SECOND tooth today.. I think pretty soon Cloudy will have more teeth than Benjamin.

This is how Clouds usually wakes up...

His self-portraiture - notice remote switch in his sticky paws

Last night after Ben went to bed - Pirate Cloudy-saur came out to play
Ben heard us and WAS NOT happy...

Ben had today off from school - so we enjoyed a cool morning at the zoo, had lunch, rode the train, headed home, played catch while Clouds napped, then headed to the park. Today was a beautiful day!

Ben's first build was an armchair..

Then I had to build this concorde jet.

Jenn did this giraffe....

Sorry if you are getting this in your email AGAIN.. first time Blogger errored out on me.. 2nd time the pictures weren't posted on the blog... Let's hope this time it works...
Ben lost his FIRST tooth today!

With Tooth

Without tooth

It took over 3 hrs for him to wiggle the little sucker loose...

We found the Tooth Fairy pillow from NanaJan and are ready for tonight! Bring it Tooth Fairy!

Cloudy had his first haircut today - and if you know him at all you know it didn't go well, i.e. strangers, strangers touching him... well at least we had the stragglers cut.

Ben - *head tilt* awww

This past week we pulled Ben out of school a few days to start our long weekend a bit early. We loaded up the boat and drove to Arkansas. I made sure we left at 0'dark thirty in hopes to getting a few hrs in b/f the kids really woke up.. and for the first 3 hrs of the trip, Ben made sure I wasn't sleeping - he talked and talked and talked.. I'm surprised Pete slept in the passenger seat as much as Ben rattled on.

We had a late lunch at Devils Den park in Arkansas and really enjoyed a little hike. That place is just beautiful to me. After a night at PawPaws house we packed up mowers and headed to Norrell. The lake was amazing as always.. and the camping was great - minus the no campfire due to a burn ban, and low 50s over night... Buurrrrr.

Cloudy turned ONE on Saturday and we had a little party for him at the lake. It was sweet, and the cake was tasty!
Sunday came around and no one wanted to leave...
Monday we drove back to Nebraska and celebrated my birthday in the car.. FUN... I'm getting a new tire for the boat trailer...Backing into the drive Pete hit some rebar sticking out of the storm drain...

Ben was distraught that he didnt have gifts to give Cloudy or me... But decided his gift to Cloudy would be that BEN could play Wii while Cloudy watched.. and my gift was he wasn't allowed to cry/whine all day today (it actually worked too) .

Ben made it through school today - we were worried b/c on our way to school he was hollering his belly hurt, we figured he was trying to scam out of school. Sure enough, he was fine once he started skipping into the building. It's the only day he goes to school this week, tomorrow we head out on our Labor Day weekend trip.

Cloudy absolutely LOVES his rocking chair, JUST TRY to get him out of it...

The little boys club forgot to include mom in on the funny... :( typical

Clouds is cutting his back teeth and I wish they would hurry up... this drooling episode of his life stinks! :D