hello, march!

hello again! well, we survived the snow and had a great time playing in it for a whole day! i liked it much better this time (versus my first experience with it at beamee's house over christmas) but i'm ready for warm weather and daily visits to the park now. :)

it had still been a little chilly last week so we kept busy inside dancing and playing on the bed...


and mommy set up a fun tent inside for me to play with!

once i realized it was a giant shark-like fish, i thought for a second that it might eat me! (thankfully, it did not.)

then over the weekend it started to get warmer again and we had some fun outside while daddy grilled and we all played. i still love to swing and i usually can flash a smile (like this one) and mom will push me as much as i wish... :)

but sometimes swinging is very serious business...

and sometimes i just kinda zone out...

but i especially like to work on the buckle, which requires much concentration and tongue-moving...

here are some other pictures of backyard fun...

it's also been pretty warm this week so we've been at the park and just playing around. we also make cookies a lot, and i can spell my name (B-E-N) - i mean, obviously i can spell my name since i can spell all these words that i'm writing here, but i can say the letters of my name out loud and in order, so mom and dad think that's pretty cool. i can also count to 3 consistently and higher numbers depending on my mood and i can sing most of the alphabet song too. but i don't mean to brag - we toddlers really can memorize anything people throw at us, so it's not that amazing. it's just that mommy and i don't have much else to do anyway, so she figured she may as well help me learn a few things so that once the baby comes along i can coast for a while since she'll be busy with him! anyway, mostly i just like to play with cars and trucks and blocks and i've been missing beamee and grampee a lot. but i saw mimsie and grandpa (and maggie dog!) this week and will get to see them again this weekend, so that's pretty cool! i guess that's about all for now. thanks for checking in and i'll try to write again soon! :)