When I was around 5 years old, my mother told me to clean my room. She returned a few minutes later to find me crying. She asked me what was wrong and I told her..."Mamma, I'm not a worker girl, I'm a Dreamer, a Thinker and a Player." For the next 25 years, this was one of our favorite inside jokes!
Ben is now 10 weeks! He is such a sweet, laid back, all around good kid. He loves his brother, he never takes his eyes off of him! He loves his daddy, when Michael gets down by him Ben gets the biggest smile on his face! It's awesome! And I believe he loves me too! :) He and I have a good time together. He likes talking, but not too much. He giggles in his sleep, I really want to know whats so funny!
Michael and I are so blessed to have such amazing boys! Jonathan still loves his little brother. We actually have to tell him to stop kissing Ben because he does it so much! (Jonathan is a really affectionate kid :)
Ben had his 2 month check up last week and he got a clean bill of health! All is well! He has grown so much! He weighs 14.8 lbs! Yikes! He is just trying to catch up with his cousin Will (who is 4 months older and only around 2 lbs heavier!).
Michael and Jonathan went running daddy/son errands today and Ben and I were all alone...what to do on one of the hotest days of the year? We had a photo session! Out of the 600 I took, here are a few of my favorites!
The next 12 photo's are a series of rapid shutter that I took, he is smiling and talking to me...this is pretty much how he is all the time...he is so fun!
Angel Face
Serious Face
Talking Face
Silly Face
What'd You Say? Face
I love this one (I photoshoped it a little). It looks like he is saying I'm number one...or number two if you count the thumb. I think Jonathan would say Ben's number two! :)
This is...please stop taking pictures of me and feed me face!
Today, the 4th of July 2011, marks the 3 year anniversary of my father's passing. As I sit here thinking about him, the things that come up the most are the times filled with laughter. He and I liked to laugh A LOT. We had the same sense of humor and liked to joke around. He liked teasing people and I liked laughing at it. He had a laugh unlike any other. I loved to hear it. It was soothing to me. I would look up a joke prior to calling him, just so I could hear him laugh. The last time I saw him was July 1, 2008. It was a Tuesday night. Mom was still in the hospital, but she was on the mend and things were looking up for the first time. It had been a pretty intense week. We thought were going to lose mom at least 3 times. Dad was the most stressed I had ever seen him. He hadn't left her side for a second while she had been in the hospital. Jonathan was 2.5 months old and due to mom's weakened immune system condition I couldn't take him up to the hospital, so I had to wait until Michael got home from work before I could go see them. Now that things were getting better with mom, my thoughts had shifted to dad this particular day. I kept thinking, I needed to cheer him up, I needed to hear him laugh!! I hadn't come up with anything by the time Michael had come home, and as I started to leave, it came to me! I ran back to the computer and I downloaded from ITunes the audio CD of one of my favorite comedian's, Brian Regan. I had told dad about him before, but he had never seen or heard his act. When I got to the hospital I picked up some snacks for the 3 of us and ran up to their room! I was so happy to see both of them sitting up and smiling. It was such a relief from the days past. We sat around and chatted for a while. Then I popped the in CD! As I suspected, Dad laughed and laughed, so did mom, by the way! They both loved it. He actually fell out of his chair once he was laughing so hard. Mom kept shhhing him, since we were after all in the hospital, but she would even be giggling through her shhhes! The whole experience made me happy and made my soul glad. To see both my parents, laughing and carrying on amidst such difficult times is exactly who they were and is exactly who they taught me to be.
Here are some of my favorite laughing photo's...
Amy and I are collecting stories/memories of mom and dad to share with our children when they get older. If you would like to share a story with us, we would be more than appreciative!
Here are a couple of Brian Regan video's from YouTube. I could have posted a million more, look him up for a good laugh! I hope you enjoy him as much as we did and still do...
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