So Bennett's second day of Preschool he was supposed to bring in a picture of his family to show the class. Well, when I had to actually search for a picture of us and had to go all the way back to last May at Laura's wedding and grab a terrible picture of the four of us from that day, I decided enough is enough, we need family pictures done! I mean seriously, it had been over a year since we had a picture of all of us taken - Ashley was still a baby!!! So, that was the last straw - I called up my friend Melissa to see if she'd take some outdoor pictures of us this fall. I don't want to show you too many of the actual family ones since they will obviously be a Christmas Card picture but, here are a couple of Bennett's. (I will get to Ashley's latest happenings and a few pictures of her also in a couple days).
Bennett has been going to preschool on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and he LOVES it. Some days he even has a little fit when I'm there to pick him up because he doesn't want to go home. So far he has had units on family, apples, shapes, fall, pumpkins, and next weeks unit is pilgrims. It's a struggle to get him to actually talk to me about what he did when we get home which frustrates me alittle just because I'm so curious. But I know he's learning alot and having fun. I've caught him singing a few times which is fun cause he NEVER would sing anything with me when he was "little". One of the weekly notes that was sent home said that they are working on the songs for their Christmas program already so I'm getting really excited to see how cute this is!
He has been really catching on to his counting and he seems to really like numbers. He can count to 14. It's kinda cute because when we ask him to count he will get up to 14 and then say the following, "10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14!!!". He gets stuck on fourteen but knows that there are lots of numbers that come after that so with each 14 that he says, it gets louder and more excited. He also really likes clocks and has been trying to figure out the time. If it is on an hour, he can usually tell me what time it is. And he knows that when the little hand is on the 6, it's nap time or bed time - 12:30 and 8:30.
He really takes after Mike in the techie department. We have an Amazon Kindle and it amazes us how Bennett can navigate through it and play the games or do the puzzles and how he understands all of it. I can guarantee you that Mike and I wouldn't have been able to do any of that at 3 years old.
Bennett still loves to play with tractors and cars, he really has fun playing with sand and water, and his interest in tools and musical instruments continues. The only reason he really liked going to all of Kristen's volleyball games is because he might get to watch the pep band play!!! - he's obsessed with the drums and cymbals.
(those of you who really know Bennett know that he is full of facial expressions - this picture is a classic Bennett face)
Not really sure why he had his hand on his face like this but it's still cute. He looks so big!
