Benson's 1 year old birthday continued

 So grateful to have all of these sweet boys to hold and snuggle!

Monkey Masks

 In preschool this last week we learned about the letter M. The keyword to help us remember the sound is mask. I have was excited when I found these monkey masks to go with it. The kids had a lot of fun being monkeys!

 This is a random picture of Benson, he is doing more and more each day and sure is fun to snuggle and see learn and grow. He is babbling quite often. I love the babbling and crawling stage!

lemonade stand

 This year our lemon tree has had a number of lemons. Alden has asked a number of times if he could sale lemonade. Finally the other day we made it happen. I was worried no one would stop and that it would be a let down for him, but we were surprised...he sold every last drop of lemonade.

 The first day got him excited so he did his stand a couple more times, these times Calvin saw it was lucrative and decided to join in the fun.  The first day we couldn't get him to even go out to buy lemonade. (Really I think it more had to do with him understanding what it was...and that if you are out sailing lemonade then sometimes you get to drink lemonade.)

playing with friends

 The other day some friends who we used to play with almost every week but have since moved came to play. It was fun to have them over and to have someone even Benson's size to play with.

Phoenix temple open house

 A couple of weeks ago we went to the Phoenix temple open house. It was beautiful and so nice to be able to go as a family!

Benson Birthday!

This is first thing in the morning.  Everyone wore their birthday shirts. Alden and Calvin were so excited for Benson's birthday!

In the morning we decided to go to baby story time. (We've been to toddler and preschool story time but never to the baby one.) Benson loved it! They do peekaboo, read a couple simple stories and sing songs with actions or activities to do with your baby. Then at the end they put out baby toys and let the babies play together. They also gave us a bag of things since it was our first time going.  In the bag was a little baby board book that Benson loves! It was definitely his favorite birthday present.  He can be in a full blown cry but if someone starts reading that book to him, life is great all over again.  It makes him smile every time I read it to him!!

Benson likes the library because of all of the activities to do that are at his level.

Once Daddy came home from work we opened presents and had cake and ice cream.  Benson ate the cake just about how he eats everything.  He puts it in his mouth and then spits out most of what went in. He ate some of the cake but we couldn't get him to even try the ice cream. I force fed him a little bit just so he would have tried it and to see if he would like it, he was not a fan. But he did seem to enjoy the cake.  It was a strawberry cake and he does seem to like strawberries.

Tucson Zoo

Alden has had this week off for Fall break. We started the break off with a trip to the zoo.  We liked that all of the animals seemed more lively then the last time we were there.
It was also nice because the elephants were out with the new baby elephant.
I didn't think Benson would be very excited about seeing the animals but he loved it! So all in all it was a successful trip to the Tucson Zoo!