Benjamin's 10 months old....................

Okay, round 3!! Each time I tried to do this post, I lost it!! It gets to be a little frustrating after a while, that's why it took me a week to do this one. On December 2nd, we had our first snow fall, and this is Benjamin's first time out in it. For all of you who have already had children, you're probably gettting tired of all these "firsts", but it's all new to us, so bear with us!
His snowsuit is so big on him he could hardly move!


Ben started walking on the 3rd, and here's a couple of video clips if you want to check them out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GFQJAOkGmc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuHcoYdNgRE

Benjamin's 9 months old..............here are just a few assorted pictures, he looks so old in the first one!!!

And lastly, I thought I'd include a picture of the new windmill that Joe and Jason put up, it'll help the trout that they had stocked the pond with. The bad news is that the pond will not freeze over completely this year, so unfortunately no skating or hockey here................

I should say thanks to mydyslexic friend, aka Kim. The new beta version is a lot easier to use, especially uploading pictures. Thanks!!

Okay, okay, got a little bit of flak for not keeping this up, so over the next few days I'll be doing a couple of posts to catch up. Before I go any further, congratulations to Ang and Andrew on your engagement!!! Can't think of a better pair, when are you going to do the deed??

Remembrance Day weekend, we decided last minute to go up to Darcy and Melissa's camp for the weekend, it was so nice to get away. Ben hadn't been there since he was 5 weeks old. We arrived about 2 or so on Friday, and Darcy, Dean and Jade (friends from Korea) were already there. Soon after, Kim, Liss and Mitchell arrived. As everyone knows, Ben loves the camera, and here he is with Liss playing up to it. Friday when we got there, there was quite the fire going in the camp, so we stripped Ben down, and here is Mitchell (13 and very talented, he has his own band!) playing his electric guitar for him, Ben just loves it!!
It was such a beautiful day, around 15 deg or so, so we put Ben's playpen outside. I wanted to include this pic because it's not very often I can get a pic of him when he's not looking and smiling for the camera!
Ben just loves Jade, they had a lot of fun playing together on her bed.
Later that night, poor Jake, Darcy and Melissa's dog got sprayed by a skunk. We were lucky it was just him, since we had Kaizer there, and there was one other dog there as well. Liss had heard about this wonderful antidote for skunk, and were very lucky to actually find some baking soda and peroxide. After a couple of batches of the magic solution,
poor Jake was finally smelling good again, although quite cold. Darcy is famous for his wonderful fires, so after some time curled up in front of it he was much better.

There was a great crowd up there, 7 kids, many many adults, and really nice weather until we had to leave. What a beautiful place to be. Thanks to Darcy and Liss for having us!!

Ben's First Halloween

Here's Ben in his Winnie the Pooh costume, Jody tried painting his face, but Ben was so upset we just washed it off. We went to a total of four houses, and he got 4 bags of cheesies. He hadn't had them before, but he just loves them.
First up was Darcy and Liss's house, then Muss and Chris's (friends of ours), Great Grampie's, and finally Grammie and Grampie Jenkins.
How Ben dropped this on top of him without hurting himself is a mystery, he just let out a little squeal, and there he was!! We just had to take a picture!

Here's Ben playing with Darrel Prianti and Sarah McKelvey's daughter Tatum. What a sweetheart! He wasn't too sure about sharing his toys, but they get along great as long as Tatum doesn't hug us. He tends to get a little jealous.
And finally, our cat Whiskey who's taken a liking to Ben's stroller.

Well, that's more than enough entries for now, and i've ran out of recent pictures. Talk to you later............

A Terrific Weekend

My Mom and Dad came up Saturday and spent the night for Ben's Baptism the next day. We had a great visit, it had been about 2 months since they had seen Ben, the web cam just isn't the same. Ben had a great time cuddling with his Grammie.

Again, pics in the wrong order. We gave Ben a whole blueberry muffin for lunch, he went right to town on it! what a mess!
Here's Ben with Poppy, it's a toss-up who has the most fun playing when they're together!!
Sam doesn't look too pleased here, Ang wouldn't let her do her hair in the faux hawk (or whatever it's called, sorry Sam!),but it was great to see her, too bad Bill couldn't come up too. And here's doodlebug with his godmother. It was great to see my family, I got my fix for another little while. We probably won't get home until Christmas, though, and everyone will see another big change in Ben by then. Here's a little video clip of Ben when the family was here, check it out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjENqcwCGPk

Benjamin's Baptism

Hey guys, it's been so long since i've done this that I forgot how!! That's why I couldn't get these pics in order, but here you go. We had Ben baptized at Saint Michael's on October 29th. He had fallen asleep on me during the first part of the baptism, so when Father Fraser did the bit with the holy water, it was a rude awakening for Ben!

And here he is after the holy water, he doesn't look too pleased!!
Here is a pic of my Mom and Dad, and my niece Sam who all were able to be present. Ang, my sister, and her man Andrew also came up, and of course Betty, Joe and Jason were there too.
Father Fraser with Benjamin.........

and Ben with his godparents, Jason and Ang.

Thanksgiving Visit to McAllister Farm

On Thanksgiving Monday, Betty, Jody, Benjamin and I took a trip out to McAllister Farm for Family Day.
Here is a pic showing their windmill in the background, similar to what we will have, but ours will have a 20' tower instead. And ours is a much nicer pond, eh guys?
They had hay rides too, but we didn't stick around for that, though we did get a pic of Ben on the trailer with the hay.
They were selling pumpkins for 2 bucks a piece, but i bet we could get more for Ben!

We took a walk through the apple orchard to see the horses and cows. They pretty much ran over once they saw the apples Jody was holding. We'll have to make this an annual thing on Thanksgiving, Ben enjoyed it so much. If i can figure it out, i'll add a little video here.="http://www.youtube.com/v/-exhnJHDrmQ"

Ben's 8 month pics

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, but I'll make up for it today. I think I'm finally getting the hang of it. Now anyone should be able to leave a comment, just click on comment on the bottom of the post. Here are Ben's 8 month pics. This is his new Chevy truck, I think he likes it!! He definitely looks ready to go cruising.....
Here's Ben trying to get into his truck, wait til next fall, he'll be zipping around the pond!! Good thing we have 92 acres!
We found out that Benjamin loves boxes, I know, I know, all kids do, but it'll make it easier for Christmas this year, eh? Just wrap up a few empty boxes, and voila! Just kidding........


And here he is trying on Dad's chain, kinda big on him, eh?

last day of sept continued.......

Play time with Uncle Jason.........

and finally bed time for Ben. It only lasted for about an hour or so, then he was up for a while. The next morning, we found tooth #7, which explained the awake time when Darcy, Liss, our friend Dean from Korea, Kim, and newlyweds Joey and Kelly were here to enjoy our new fire pit with us. Click on the following link to see Benjamin half crawling half walking. http://www.youtube.com/v/UO8up8VjzJs" Here's another, both taken October 11, 2006 src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MTxJ3-_Dkhg

last day of sept

The first pic is of the new fire pit that Jody and Jason built today, it's a lot nicer than the other one - much bigger fire!!


and here are a few pics of Ben and Kaizer playing outside, Kaizer is so good with him!!

this is benjamin at 7 months, he's just too cute!! can't quite see his teeth though...........