@ 15 Months (10.8.09)

15 Months?!!? 15 Months?!!!!! Seriously, how has it been 15 months since we went to the hospital to be induced (UGH!) and birth our sweet baboo puffin?!!?

CrAzY

Fuh reals.

We were unsuccessful at taking a good chair shot this month :(

So, we played on Gyffy co-co-pop instead :)

and then we went outside to explore stuff

Prima Tana spent the night with us this week while Uncle Corey was out of town and poor Aunt Sydney had a yucky illness :'( (she is a little better today)

We had spaghetti. Some of it even made it into his tummy...

Benjamin can feed himself!

Tana eats like a lady with her utensils!!!

Yesterday we went to Prima Tana's school for Fall Fun Day :) Benjamin wore his cute little monkey sweater suit... Is he going to sue me for these photos when he is up for the Surgeon of the Year award? Or do I just need to start his therapy savings now?

Momma! Stop trying to photograph me in this stupid chair!

Be the Monkey...with a little car

Momma loves me!

Yup, I look like a monkey going to a Fall Fun Day Festival

She bounces like Tigger!

She is too beautiful to stop the photographs!

Happy Fall, ya'll
bwyl *SherryQ* xo

JUMBO's Pumpkin Farm

We drove over to the other side of the mountain and visited Jumbo's pumpkin farm last weekend. Benjamin went crazy making all of the farm animal signs!

Benjamin signs, "pig"

This year Tana notices the farmy smells! :)

Puffins LOVE goats!!!

Prima Tana

Prima Tana and Benjamin!

Benjamin and Prima Tana rode horses!!! My apologies for the pictures with Benjamin being so very small - the larger I made them, the larger I was (I am SO not into being fat, I'm really not sure why I am doing it), and the less inclined I was to share them - so you get the un-cropped versions of far away, courtesy of Octavio, the photographer :)

Prima Tana

Benjamin Puffin!

Benjamin shows off his horsey-legs - He was demonstrating how he rode the horse!

Handsome Fellows XOXO

Supah Strong SupahStar!

Running Cousins :)

Yeah, that's right, I AM crazy cool!

Found a pumpkin, found a pumpkin!

Found a GREAT pumpkin!

Found the GREATEST Pumpkin!!!

Run away, pumpkin catchers!!!

Tiny Puffins with tiny pumpkins

Tiny Puffins with a GIANT pumpkin!

Final measurements before we took our leave...

See ya next year, Jumbo's (or next week!)!

It's SO crazy to think this was just last year's visit when he spent the entire time asleep in the Moby :) Babies are babies for about a millisecond!!!

bwyl *SherryQ* xo

Where Betty-Ann becomes Olivia, Nature is explored, and Forest is conquered!

Benjamin's Prima Zoe received a baby doll a while ago and named her, "Betty-Ann," after her Grandmother on her father's side. Once Zoe had a Betty-Ann doll, Tana wanted one too - so Granny (my mother) got Tana a Betty-Ann to match Zoe's.

When Benjamin was about 9 or 10 months old, Tana was spending the night and brought her Betty-Ann with her. Benjamin fell in love with Betty-Ann, so Prima Tana graciously left Betty-Ann to play with Benjamin for a while. A few weeks later, Prima Tana missed Betty-Ann, and took her home. Benjamin was sad :(

Aunt Kerry (Zoe's momma) happened to be visiting when Tana's Betty-Ann went home, so she went out and got Benjamin his very own Betty-Ann! Only now, Tana has delcared that there are too many Betty-Anns around, so Benjamin's Betty-Ann is now named Olivia. It is official - the tip top Puffin has spoken

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Benjamin reads a library book to Olivia!

Benjamin loves to be outside - LOVES, loves, loves it!

Poor Forest never stood a chance!