We have been very busy the past couple of days with all of our social activities. We went to dinner with two other families from our church Bible study class on Friday and we all had a really nice time. The boys behaved wonderfully the whole evening. They are such a delight.
The first half of yesterday was spent running errands. This time we split up. My husband took Nick and I took Ben to run our errands. We had been discussing that we really need to start spending one on one time with the boys and this is a good start.
The other benefit of this is, oh my goodness!, how much easier and faster it is to run errands with only one of the boys with me!! I couldn't believe it. Ben and I went all over the place. It was so quick and easy, although, poor little Ben was getting pretty tired by the time we got home....but that was OK because it was time for his nap.
We celebrated Ben's birthday with a small group of family members recently. The birthday cake was really cute and very tasty. It was a teddy bear 'cake' made of cupcakes. Some of them were white cake and some were chocolate and they were all covered with chocolate icing (lots of it). It had a ribbon around it's neck and was very cute. Unfortunately I could not find any napkins or plates with teddy bears but, oh well, Ben didn't notice and he kept quacking at the ducks on the plates and napkins, which was cute. The birthday party was a lot of fun. So it was a small, informal gathering and everyone had a fun time, watching Ben blow out his candle and open his gifts.
Ben was so cute when we were singing happy birthday to him. He was sitting on the table, next to his cake, and everyone was gathered around the table, singing to him. He had the cutest, most precious little closed-mouth grin on his face, kind of shy like but happy that everyone was singing to him. It was really adorable. I taught him how to blow out a candle before we went to the party. It was the first time either of the boys had ever seen a candle lit. They were very into blowing them out. So he did very well with that and then he stuck his little finger in the icing of one of the cupcakes and put it into his mouth. It was too cute and perfect timing. Everyone laughed and took lots of pictures.
He really liked the cupcakes and ice cream. I was eating it with him and helping him and he would give me the funniest looks when I would take a bite. Between the two of us, we ate two cupcakes and lots of ice cream and I really don't think I ate that much!
The boys were both very into opening the presents. The first present opened was a fire truck and Ben was very into playing with it and kept going back to it. He was mildly distracted by having to open other presents. Nick was very into opening each present. He was a big help to his brother and even opened one of them himself, I think.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY B! The party sounded fun. Hey, I didn't know about it. I hope you saved me a cupcake. I love chocolate anything.
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