It's starting to warm up a little!

On Baseball's opening Bennett wore his Braves jersey.  Don't worry, he also has a Red Sox shirt that he wore today, as today was the Sox home opener.  We haven't actually exposed Bennett to baseball much, so I'm not sure he even knows what it is.  Maybe we'll have to remedy that.

Slightly warmer weather this past week (not that you would know it by the winter coats) so we went out for ice cream for dinner one night.  Note to self.  The "kiddie" size ice cream is still too much.  Next time order the "baby" size for Bennett.)

It did warm up enough that we went for a walk on Friday night.  Bennett grabbed my snowflake hat.  Yes he needed a hat, but really?  Snowflakes?  I'm tired of winter!  We went to the bikepath that runs near our house, and we think he walked about three-quarters of a mile.  As mentioned in previous posts, we are hoping that he will be able to do the 2 mile walk for Children's Hospital on his own but we also have no idea how far he's capable of walking.  He also had his first pee in nature.  This will be much easier when he learns to pee standing up!  Instead Chris and I held him up in a squat position.  We're somewhat afraid that every time we walk past that dumpster now, he's going to say "pee".  The boy doesn't forget anything!

Maybe not the most flattering picture of Bennett as he pulls up his undies, but here's a glimpse into the chaos that was our living room on Saturday afternoon.  Dolls and a blanket (they had been put to bed), fruits and veggies (they also had been put to bed), a tipi, vintage Little People house... Just a typical day, I think.  And he was having fun, so that's all that matters.

Sunday we went to Sturbridge.  We were a little nervous about this as it was one of our first outings where a bathroom isn't immediately accessible.  (We'd actually gone to the mall on Saturday evening and he did well there, with a bit of a scramble to get to a bathroom.) 

Bennett's pretty trained now.  He sees these openings and he runs right over for a picture.

Ah, sheep!  One of the flocks has started lambing and they were outside.  (Last time we came we couldn't find this particular flock.)  When we saw the other flock by the farm I was commenting to Bennett that they were all the "daddies", but then an interpreter corrected me, saying that only one of them was a ram.  The others were ewes who happened to have horns.  They are due to lamb a bit later.

When we were by the farm Bennett wandered into an empty field.  He picked up a stick and was quite happy to poke around at the dirt.  We'll have to remember to keep a better eye on him in the future when they plant crops in the field. 

We have some alphabet flash cards, and for the letter "O" there is a picture of an ox. So we explained to Bennett that it's one ox and two oxen. He's familiar with oxen since we see them at Sturbridge. Now whenever he sees that flash card he says, "Oxen, cookies." Apparently those two things are very much entwined in his brain!  We also may need to teach him that he can't always have a cookie when we go to Sturbridge, but that's a fight that neither Chris nor I look forward to having.

And finally, here's Bennett playing one of his new favorite games, "bedtime".  If only actual bedtime went so well.