New Year's "Tea" Party

Brienna had a "Tea" party with Emmalee & Benjamin.

 I'm pretty sure they actually had milk & fish crackers.

 They are using the kid's Tupperware play set that my little sister (Janna Lee) & I played with when we were young.

 My memories of using this set was on Sundays after church, while we were waiting for my mom to cook lunch/dinner.

 I remember having oyster crackers & water (yum, yum).

 Cheers!

 Benjamin thought it was quite funny to "tap" cups & say "Cheers!"

Mmmmm, mmmmmmmmmm--yummy!!!

Benjamin's Lego Building

So after the kids were all in school--Benjamin had a blast playing with the legos & not having to share.

 So he brought his tower over to me & kept pointing to my computer.  I had no idea what he wanted.  I told him there were no more legos over here.  

 Then it fell over.  So I told him to build again.  He did & pointed again.  I finally started pointing to things by my computer & discovered he wanted the camera--He wanted me to take his picture. 

 And then he hid behind the tower.

 Thought it was very funny.

 (Look how smart he is--he picked out all the red blocks & only built with them!)

 After each picture, he wanted to see it on my camera.  

Maybe this is the Leaning Tower of Pisa!

 I kept telling him that I couldn't see his face.

 Then he decided to let go & let his face hold the tower up :D

 There--finally a picture that shows his whole face!

 (Notice his Toy Story shirt--thankfully he has tons of Toy Story clothes, otherwise I fear he would run around in just a diaper.  Wait--he does that too!)

And a final picture of Benjamin & his tower.

Legos

Benjamin (& the kids) have been having fun playing with our legos & mega blocks.  So on Sunday, they decided to see if they could make a tower that touched our ceiling.

 It looks like they did it.   (and they didn't want Benjamin to help them!!)  

Emmalee's goofy face.  She held the bottom of the tower.

 So the next day, Emmalee decided to see if she could build a tower that was taller than her.

 She tried many times, only to have the bottom topple over.

 But she finally did it.  And she had to try  out lots of different faces.

This was her "smile like a beautiful 5-year old" face.