The Celebration Continues!

I will say that Ben may be the most celebrated child of this year!! Thursday Marisa came out and spent some quality one on one time with Ben. She took him to enjoy a smoothie (one of his favorite treats) and surprised him with a new Thomas movie and train car. He was in heaven (until an hour later when he was pumped full of an armload of shots at his 4-yr checkup!)

Saturday we held a small party for Ben at the house. He requested a carnival theme (more so, I politely recommended that since I'm tired of trains and we had a popcorn machine collecting dust in the basement). My mom cooked the hotdogs (they exploded) and Seth's mom was in charge of games. The kids were so happy to play along and we finally celebrated our first birthday for Ben without tears!

Sunday the celebration continued as Uncle Jon and Aunt Cori took Ben to the Lego store for his long awaited trip to pick out a present. It is no surprise that he chose this (rather expensive) Lego Train and has been playing with it non-stop (and sleeping with the train engines). It never ceases to amaze me how many different trains this child can obsess over.

Afterwards Ben had a special afternoon with Nana before rejoining me at a feast that Uncle Jon & Aunt Cori hosted at Texas De Brazil to reunite the Phillips and Sweenys. While Ben didn't take full advantage of all they had to offer he did chow down on a few plates of rice!