15 Month Pictures

It's a few weeks early, but it was the best opportunity I had to get some cute pictures. Someone has gotten to be a little stinker and not very cooperative when I try to take nice pictures of him.

Easter at Grandma and Grandpa Wolny's

Easter Basket

The Easter Bunny didn't exactly hide Ben's basket in an inconspicuous place, but that made it much easier for Ben to find it! In fact, his Easter basket was hidden in Ben's favorite place to hide (which is pretty funny since we haven't lowered the curtain rod since getting new drapes)

Coloring Eggs

I thought I'd be crazy and see if Ben could dye eggs this year. He tried, but it didn't quite work out - he spilled green dye. So instead he ended up sitting and watching Daddy dye eggs and Mommy decorate the bunny cake.

Egg Hunt at the Zoo

Oh, what a crazy day at the zoo it was on Friday! The zoo was having an egg hunt for some of the animals for Easter, and it just happened to be the most beautiful day in 8 months! Needless to say, the zoo was a zoo. We had no problems getting in the backway, but most people waited an hour in traffic to park and then another 30 minutes to get tickets. But, the zoo is so big, I didn't really notice all the crowds except in the African exibit.

Ben enjoyed the animals. He liked the monkeys and orangatans which where very playful. And he liked Louie the elephant and Sammy and Lulu the rhinos. He's very into pointing at things and saying 'What's that?' at the moment.

The Orangutans

Would You Like Lemon with That?

The food monster was starting to come out when we went to Bar Louie the other night, and Cheerios just weren't cutting it, so I thought I'd see what Ben thought of lemon. He ate the entire thing.

It's Never Too Early!

To start good dental hygiene habits ;) Ben really likes the new Crest sprinbrush I got him. It's a fun toy, but he knows to put it against his teeth and move it around. He just gets really mad when I take it away.

Learning to Climb a Tree

Well, kind of. Adam had the big ash tree in our yard cut down last week. It had the bore, so it was pretty much dead and had a large crack in it.

Monster's Rope

Monster's one favorite outside toy is her rope. She and Ben have gotten really good a playing with it together. Ben chases her around, she drops it, he picks it up and she comes and takes it away from him again. Even though Monster likes to do her hammer throw circles, she has never hit Ben with her rope. She always drops it if he gets too close. Ben, however, has swung and it hit Monster a few times with the ball.

Yard Work

As the weather gets nicer, Ben refuses to be indoors. He points out the windows and doors and says 'side, side' (we constant say Let Monster outside, so he learned the word a while ago). Friday night we let him help with the yard work.

First, he had to check that there was enough bubbles in the bubble mower

So that he could bubble mow the yard He picked up sticks
He helped stack wood
He swept the sidewalks (he even requested the broom off the wall of the garage)

And of course ran circles around the backyard and the front yard and the side yard and the driveway and then back to the backyard again, and so on and so on...

Scoot-Scoot

Ben has finally grown enough to fully use his scoot-scoot (best $5 I ever spent at a garage sale!). He likes to push it around, sit on it, put stuff into the seat, terrorize Monster with it...