Finally a whole month with weather that allowed us to be outside in the warm sun, well except for a few rainy days. We took our first camping trip and of course this is when it rained and the ground was soggy so we packed up the next day and came home. Ah but no rain at home so we enjoyed a campfire and our first s'mores with the neighbors. We also took our second camping trip over memorial day weekend and the weather was fabulous! Again we shared our campfire and some s'mores with friends. Benjamin seems to enjoy going out in the camper and talks about the camper quite a bit now as well points out all the campers he sees while we're driving. Not the best sleeper in there yet, though we didn't figure he'd enjoy the confines of the bunkhouse to himself just yet. So we've taken turned sleeping in the bunkhouse with him. Oh I see the posession arrow is again pointing at Fred for the next trip : )
Benjamin continues to pick up tons of word and pieces them together for short 2, 3, 4 word sentences. Many times he just jabbers away and we pick up bits and pieces of what he's trying to tell us...yes we can speak toddler now. Some of his new words/phrases include grandma, grandpa, grammy, pops, later, all right, pizza ready, happy cake, icky eye, dog hair, and whyyyyyy. All very important to the toddler vocabulary. He's almost got his name down, he calls himself "jamin." He also continues to understand more and more of what we're saying. And of course gets upset when he doesn't get the answer he had hoped for. Its been a rough go of it at times this past month with whining and crying and getting him to use his words. We know he has the words, so use them please!!
Okay again a photo dump of some of my favorite pics from this month (excluding Mothers Day since it has it's own post).
