I can't believe that tomorrow is already the beginning of October. Ben and I spent the last day of this month enjoying the zoo. It closes already on October 10th, so we are trying to fit in a couple last visits.  When we walked into the zoo, Ben asked if he could give the inflatable Bill a hug.  A friendly peacock.  Ben walking through the African Safari mist. It was working overtime today, so we had a hard time seeing the path!  Pelicans  Ben being silly. He said he put his hat on backwards just like daddy does.  Lions: Ina & Bill  Ben wanted me to take a picture of him pretending to sleep in the tent. What a goof! :)  Leopard  Playing in the eggs.  Ben rode the pony Candy today. He always rides on Sadie, but she had the day off. (Only about 1/2 the ponies were there. I guess they don't bring them all out as it gets closer to zoo closing time.)  Ben found a little caterpillar and we watched him crawl around for a...

Each week, I am going to spend time on a letter from the alphabet with Ben and this week we are working on the letter C. I decided not to do the letters in order because I thought it would be more fun that way. I chose C because Ben is having a Disney Cars themed birthday party on Saturday with my family. We've had fun working on a few projects, going to the library, and looking for C's everywhere we go!  We started out the week by making some cookies in the shape of a C.  Here's the finished product...some look a little more like C's than others. :) While the cookies were baking we read this book that we picked up at the library. We have a few of the other books like this such as, If You Give a Moose a Muffin , but we don't have this one at home. Ben thought it was fun that he got to have chocolate chips cookies just like the mouse.    Time for a treat!  Yesterday, Ben colored a C that I drew for him and after I cut it out he g...

Curt signed up for another Fort4Fitness race this year. This time though, he decided to try the 4 mile run instead of the half marathon he ran last year. Ben and I went along to cheer him on! We had to leave the house at 6:30 am, so it was a very early morning. Ben was surprisingly in a good mood even though I had to wake him up early. We had fun cheering for each runner that came into Parkview Field while we were watching for Curt near the finish line.  Curt before the start of the race.  Curt's cheering section. You can see Curt in the middle of the picture wearing a white t-shirt.   Curt running to the finish line!  He crossed the finish line somewhere in the big bunch of people. His time was 34:55.  This is the area the runners went into right after they were done with the race to get their medal and some snacks. Curt is in the far right in the picture (wearing a white t-shirt).  Great job, Curt! :) After the race was done, we decided to get ...

We spent a beautiful morning at Buckner Park with our friends Erin and Will. It was so warm and sunny! The temperature gauge on my Jeep said 85 as I was driving home at noon. We haven't made it out to that park in a while, so it was fun to visit a different place today. Watch Out! Someone's gonna get you with his feet! Ben did lot of climbing... climbing ...and more climbing! Ben with his buddy, Will

Yesterday, we continued to work on the letter A. Ben colored a little 'a' to resemble an apple and decorated an acorn picture with cereal. We also searched through the house/books for all the big and little A's we could find. We've been having a great time...hopefully I will be able to have interesting ideas ready for each letter of the alphabet. :) After coloring a little 'a' that I drew for him, Ben used a glue stick to get it ready to place on the orange paper. Sticking it to the paper. Putting glue on the little leaf he colored. All done! He colored the acorn picture brown before adding the cereal. I helped Ben put glue all over the acorn and he added Rice Krispies to the bottom and Cheerios to the top. We had to set it out overnight to dry because all that glue made it very wet! This morning it was all dry, so I cut it out and put it on the refrigerator. NOW ON TO MORE FUN WITH THE LETTER A!

I decided a while ago that I would like to pick a letter every week to focus on with Ben and we are finally getting started. He already knows all of the capital letters and about half of the lowercase, but I thought it would be fun pick out some crafts/activities and really spend time on each letter. This is our first week and the letter is A ! We actually started on Friday afternoon by making a delicious apple treat with Rice Krispies. Today, we've had so much fun looking for A 's at the grocery store and doing a couple craft projects. Ben has been LOVING it...this boy enjoys a project! Helping place the "stems" into our apples. Click HERE  if you would like to try the recipe. The finished apples. Ben gave this treat a thumbs up! This morning Ben made an alligator A . He started by coloring the capital A that I drew for him. After I cut it out for him, Ben glued it on some blue paper and added the eyes. Every alligator needs some teeth! Ben also used an apple to s...