Leprechauns & the Tooth Fairy

Leprechaun coin....Benji made about 10 Leprechaun traps all through our house in hopes of catching the little green guy and making him tell where he hid his gold!

unfortunately the little bugger was not lured into the traps, & he
messed up our house, turned our milk and German oven pancakes green to show his tricky nature...

But he was kind in the end and left a little gold candy and a fun fortune clover to make up for his naughtiness...Benji is a "happy successful" boy!

the adventure did not end with our morning. Benji went to Gymnastics and then to school where I was able to help the little kindergartners find clues "Lucky the Leprechaun" left all through their school and led them to a pot of his gold!

Benji is the little green guy on the left.

He was even lucky enough to find one of the treasures and clues hidden in the library...The blarney stones for each kid!

Games played after the pot o gold was discovered.

When Benji was asked what he would do with the money if he found the pot O gold...He said he would buy infinity toys...

I have always loved St. Patricks Day. I am so glad we get to celebrate it with Benji every year. These are the great moments as parents!


The Next Day Benji Got his FIRST visit from the TOOTH FAIRY! He pulled it out all by himself!

Before he lost his tooth sometime last week We talked about the tooth fairy and that they sometimes leave money under your pillow in exchange for your lost tooth. Benji enthralled in the idea said, If she leaves $ 10.00 I would give (counting on his hands) $8 to you to adopt a baby, and then I would use $2 to buy me a toy! (he is so stinking sweet!)

We are so proud of him ... :( our little boy is growing up. Sigh :(

Polar Express Pajama Day

I was completly impressed by his little trian it was so precisly assembled With out any smears of frostine. It was exactly like the example. I should have taken a pic of the table of trains & frostine coverd table so you could see the frostine globs and you would get what I ment.

Craft time, making Christmas ornaments to take home and put on our tree. Benji is sitting next to his good budy Jaxton.

(This is another Back post to 2009)

I was so glad I could come to Polar Express Pajama Day in Benji's class. It was so much fun to see the kids all excited to come in their P'J's !!! And to see their favorite ones. What made it even more special, was the night before, my mom came to help me finish sewing the buttons on Benji's new snowman PJ's. If you look at his letter to Santa he asked for some very specific things. One was snowman pajamas with 5 buttons! Having never taken such an undertaking in sewing before I found myself a little behind the night before polar express PJ day at school... I called my mom up for help. She was happy to come(THANKS MOM!) and together we finished (at 2 in the morning!) his adorable little snowman PJ's with 5 buttons! I also made matching PJ bottoms for Dan and Myself. I have a picture of Dan's I'll show you in a bit. Nelly's went to the unfinnished pile the pattern all cutt out.

Pumpkin Land Field Trip

I was so excited to be able to attend my first kindergarten field trip as a parent! We went to Pumpkin Land. The kids sang a song about farmer Grant (so stinking cute), we road on a school bus -a first for Benji- (memory lane for me) and went through a corn maze, (check that off Benji's fall must do list) played at pumpkin play land giant pumpkin slide, a spooky house, and the each got to choose their own pumpkin to take home. And YES benji was the absolute last to choose his pumpkin worthy to set out on our porch. That boy has always loved pumpkins he is so funny. He took so long finding the perfect pumpkin, and so we were the last on the bus for the ride home.

I had a great group they are such cute boys!

Still looking....

Mom I Want to learn!

When I asked Benji if he wanted to go to kindergarten and why...He said; "I want to go because Mom, I want to LEARN!!!! "

We had been considering waiting until he was 6 like mom and dad were when we went. He is just a little guy so an extra year could help in so many ways.

But now he wakes up and cant wait to go. He has afternoon kindergarten so all morning I hear, "when is it time to go? can I go now?" Who would have thought!

Look at this picture it says it all!!!

And yes the backpack is huge! He was sure this was the one. It has a water bottle spot ( because its hot see below)and a strapping clip across the chest so the straps wont fall of his shoulders which was a problem with all the others...So this one had to be it even if it comes to his knees!

The report on the way back went like this... "Its hot!!! We took this picture (I think it was with the whole school?) and it was hot Hot HOT! " ( it was in the 90'ds & his hair was still damp). Well how was school? "Good, I ate 5 gummy bears! "

Latter he gave a great report on his first day on video Below...School was -----I want to go again Now!!!

I love my little guy!!!

I cant wait for more reports...Fridays was,...."School took a long time! IT was Fun and Great. "

What did you do today? "I don't know, I remember some of it, we um, we uh...I dont remeber... Umm....We read the Kissing Hand!"

Really? ( we just read it last night together and I highly recommend it to you, we had some great snuggles though out the book) The Kissing Hand by Audra Penn.

Benjamins Report on the first day

Benjis report on Kindergarten... I couldn't have asked for anything better!

Graduation and the big 5

Benji's big preschool graduation

Word from Benji's big day

I didnt take the time to edit so you get reality here, enjoy!

Schools In

Proudly showing off his orientation projects from his pre-school orientation
The 1st day of Pre-school is here.
He goes 3 days a week for 2 hours. I was able to coax him into this whole pre-school idea with the promise of many project and activities to follow. I hoped the teacher also had this in mind because this is what really gets his attention. Today on the 3rd day of pre-school the first thing he said to me as I welcomed him to the car is, in a disappointed tone, "no project today, nothing to show you, no activities..."Oh really, I ask ,what did you do? "Sang songs, played games and stuff...oh and I got a sticker for this..." He showed me his paper of tracing the dotted lines. Cant blame him I always loved the art projects the best too.

The pictures below are from his first day.

Oh the day has come when I must say good by to my boy...I love his smile such a big little guy.


This is such a great picture, I wish I would have taken the shot bebore I asked them to smile. You should have seen thier little worried faces in this fisrt day of pre-school too cute! As you can see some little ones did not comply to my request to smile. Adorable I wish I could see what they were thinking like the little bubles in cartoons.

How I spent the weeks, no years dreading this first parting from my boy...It came with such a momentous dread. I think I can blame some of this on the fact that he is my only one. I was afraid not only of how he would deal with the separation but how I would handle it.
As you can see he did wonderful.

I also did great, on the fisrt day... Dan traveld with me and said on the way back from dropping Benji off. “Wow. I really thought this was going to be a serious deal for you, your not upset at all.” Nope I let all that out at orientation in the pre-school bathroom. Remember?

HA HA HA
I can look back now and laugh at the few moments I lost from the orientation day instructions because I had to hide my bawling face in the bathroom. Yes I really did. I was probably the first one and maybe only one to cry her eyes out at pre-school orientation!! But here is that catch I have a good excuse. You pretty much know when your on hormones (as I was for fertility treatment stuff) that you will be having some sort of moment. The stuff I was on was like menopause complete with hot flashes and all. I am so glad to have hidden that little break down so well. I don’t think any one saw it-or maybe I am fooling myself. Although it was quite ridiculous to have uncontrollable tears rolling down my cheeks –it was like Niagara Falls. I seriously thought I wouldn’t be able to collect Benji and leave. As it was all other parents and children where gone by the time I got it under control. I chuckle at the experience what a silly memory, one for the books.