Wednesday, February 3, 2010

"NO"

These pics are kinda crazy because I took them with my laptop... but Ben's buddies were over this morning and he asked to borrow a pencil. When I asked him why he needed one he said he had some writing to do. He disappeared into his room with is pencil (needless to say I was feeling a little nervous about WHERE he was going to be writing). A few minutes later he returned and had written this on his cardboard stop sign...

It's hard to see, but it says "NO." He said "N-O spells no, Mommy. Stop signs mean stop and do not go, so I wrote no." Pretty amazing - this was the first time he wrote anything without me spelling the letters or standing over him. I know it's just two letters, but I thought it was pretty crazy he pieced everything together and did this on his own.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Potty Party!!!!



It's been a long road and I won't go into the crazy details... but Ben finally filled his "potty chart" with smiley faces and got to go to Monkey Joe's. His best buddies met us there and the kids had a blast running and jumping everywhere. Needless to say we had some TIRED kids at the end of the night! His next reward is a pizza and DVD night... keep your fingers crossed for us!