School Pictures

Kindergarten, P.B. Smith Elementary

First Baby Tooth

Benjamin's a very proud little boy tonight. At dinner (corn on the cob) he lost his first baby tooth. He's been bouncing off the walls talking about the Tooth Fairy coming to leave him a coin. I was a little worried at first that he had swallowed it, but when I inspected his corn, I found it wedged in there.

Now I just have to pray he doesn't wake up when I go in there. We never go into his room while he's sleeping.

Benjamin the Artist

Benjamin has been blanketing the house with paper "signs". In an effort to try to confine them to one place, we bought an artist easel. It's two-sided--one side is a chalkboard and the other is a white board. There's also a paper roll that hangs down over the white board. We weren't able to put it together until after he went to bed last night, but since he saw it this morning, he's been on it nonstop. He's focused on the chalkboard so far, but I'm sure he'll move on eventually. He has access to chalk, dry-erase crayons, regular crayons, markers, and watercolors. So far he's been writing instead of drawing, but I'm hoping that will change. He just drew the exit signs to South Jordan and Moab.

Preschool Graduation pt. 1-Teens & Tots

We attended Benjamin's preschool graduation this morning for Teens & Tots. Meadowbrook is next week. There are pictures on Facebook. Video to follow.

Imagination Movers

I've posted pictures on Facebook from the Imagination Movers concert and Meet & Greet that we attended yesterday and today. Benjamin had a blast.

More birthday pics

I've posted more of Benjamin's birthday pics on Flickr.

Benjamin's 5th Birthday

I'm having a really hard time getting pictures uploaded to Facebook, so I'll put the ones with people in them here. I have a bunch of fish pictures that I'll put in another post.

Standing in line waiting to get in. It rained hard all day. Dad and I were both white-knuckling it the whole way home and passed several accidents.

Fish near the front entrance:

Shark teeth:

Bubble tubes near the front. Although it looks like he's giving it a hug, he's actually trying to climb the tube.

John and Benjamin playing with the bubble tubes:

Obviously not a real shark:

Standing in line for the Dora & Diego 4D show:

Shark mask in the gift shop:

Frog mask in the gift shop:

The birthday boy back at Amanda's:

Seeing the cake Amanda made. I got several really good photos of him smiling at the cake. He was a very happy boy.

The cake:

Surrounded by his new stash of books. They're early readers that he'll be reading before bed.

The BIG gift. Once he opened it, the rest of us were forgotten.

Amanda and John goofing around:

We got the over-the-ear earbuds hoping they'd stay in better than regular earbuds. Unfortunately they're still too big. Oh well. He listened to his music the whole way home and had no problems.