The Past Week...

Well, we've had a lot going on in the past week, and Benjamin has been right in the middle of things, as always. 

Last Sunday we went to spend a couple of days at Jenny's parents' house. It was Jenny's aunt's birthday, so Ben got to be passed around a lot, see his cousins, his great grandmother, and his aunts and uncles. 

Here he is in his Poppa's Bank of the Ozarks hat in his Johnny Jump-Up...

On Monday night when we returned, he discovered Annabelle for the first time. Notice him with his arm around her...

And now he has found her tail...he could dip that tail in kerosene and light it on fire and she wouldn't notice. Think Yellow Dog from Funny Farm.

Here's Ben with Bailey, who apparently wasn't feeling up for pictures. Bailey loves him, but he's not as apt to let Ben grab his tail and go to town. He's also about to turn 6, and he's getting to that "Leave me the heck where I am..." phase where he doesn't want to be made to get off the couch or move - in general - when he doesn't want to. 

This was a couple of days later. We've promoted from gowns at night to footie p.j.s every night. This was something my grandmother sent us a while back, but he has been too small for. Not anymore. The little man is wearing nine month clothing. 

Such a happy face...

He's getting excited watching Sarah Palin by this point...

On Saturday, we decided to go to the zoo, but stop at Chic for a bite first. The lady behind the counter gave Ben a football...he loved it. 

When we left Chic, we thought it would be best not to go down Markham, since the game was in town this week...so we went to the freeway. Even bigger mistake. We had to skip the zoo since traffic around War Memorial was so bad. We're going to go soon, though. It would have been the perfect day...the weather was so nice. 

Saturday night we bought the hog game on Pay Per View. My cousin Ashley, Shaun, and Baby Harrison came over to watch the game with us. Harrison and Benjamin were born just hours apart, both in Little Rock. 

We thought we would be able to get some cute pictures of them during half time, but Benjamin was fading fast, so we had to get them early on. 

And then a full out crying fit began. Not surprising, we had missed our first two field goal attempts and our first extra point kick. Embarrassing. The parents were crying, too. 

The Hogs had scored a couple of touchdowns by this point, so Harrison is mellowing out. 

Harrison gives cousin Ben a pat on the back...

And then, playing QB, Harrison passes the block to wide receiver Benjamin, who drools all the way into the end zone. 
Hallelujah, the Hogs pulled it off. 28-27. Go Hogs, GO!