IT SURE HAS BEEN A WHILE.. Tractors and Trains

Okay, so it's been a while.  Hopefully these photos will give you a sense of why life has taken over and blogging has taken a back seat...  but we're back... for this evening... on a three day weekend.

 

 

BUTTONWOOD PARK - New Bedford, MA

 

THE MEANEST BIKER GANG AROUND

 

 

ESPECIALLY THIS GUY

 

 

A TRIP TO THE FARM

 

TRACTOR MAC!!!!!!!!

 

 

"Grandpa, see that one, it's a two-stroke diesel engine, and that's a steam engine...."

 

 

"Grandma, you might want to take a step back, this one has some get up and go..."

 

 

GRANDPA GETS OUT THE TRAINS...  future engineers

 

 

BACK IN NEWPORT --- THOMAS THE TRAIN!!!!

Has anybody seen Cookie Monster?

 

 

Hugs for Ella Robson, the Birthday Girl.

 

 

CLOWNIN' AROUND (Notice the placement of Benjamin's fingers in the second frame)

 

WHO ME???!!!!

 

 



FIRSTS and MISC

First thing's first... HE TURNS, HE TURNS!!!!

SMILE!!!!

Lovin' up on his Auntie Alana.

Benjamin's cousin Shea left this hat behind, and in Benjamin's World anything Shea does is cool!  Forgive him RSN, he knows not what he does.  But he sure is proud of himself.

Grammie playing with Noah.  Coaxing him to turnover.  Pretty sure it was this training that did it.

Benjamin had his first sleepover with his Cousin Jordan.  They slept on the pull out futon all night long!!!  Yeah!!!!

Benjamin slam dunks...  not sure where the leg kick came from, but could be the next big thing.  Stay tuned, this space.

"Tomato" is a very hard word to say.

New England's BEST story reader (Aunt Jude) visited Middletown.  What a treat!

BLAST OFF!!!!!

Benjamin's new favorite show is "SUPER WHY"... he is starting to sing the theme song.

4th of July in Bristol

The Adams clan spent another 4th of July in Bristol, the oldest 4th of July parade in America

(now 227 years running).

Benjamin's face says it all, "Whoaaaaaaa".

Two tuckered out Patriots:

No better way to spend a Saturday in Newport than picking STRAWBERRIES!!! Word of caution.  If this man comes to your strawberry farm looking for employment...  do not hire him.  He will EAT your profits.

Who me?

I never met a strawberry I didn't like...  in my belly.

Strawberry Schmawberry, I need my beauty sleep.

Strawberry Buddies

Not a lot of picking going on, just a whole lot of chewing.

   

Happy Father's Day!!!  Da-da's two boys made him this special hand and foot tree!!!

HE SWIMS!!!

HE SWIMS!!!!  Look at our little buddy go.  Noah dipped his toes in, but decided it was by far the coldest thing he'd ever felt (in his whole life).

Basking in his victory:

 Ma-ma and her swim buddies.

Noah and his sweet, sweet smiles:

 

FENWAY

Dad took his buddy to a Red Sox game yesterday.  Best 5 innings of my life.  Although we don't know who won (even as I write I am not certain as to the outcome-- and pretty certain that was not the point of going in the first place), but at least we have a shared Fenway experience under our belts.

Biggest event of the day was watching Wally (the Green Monster Mascot) run around the infield.  Although we were a bit upset Wally wouldn't come say, "Hi!"  Second biggest event was when the Nationals hit a homerun...  albeit the wrong team, we celebrated with "Homerun!"

Benjamin finished off the night with two Fenway Dogs.  Cheering for the Sox (and the Nationals) can give a man a big appetite.

2 YEARS!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it?  We celebrated Benjamin's 2nd Birthday this last weekend.  Family, friends, and one tuckered out little 2 year old.

Who's job was it to show Benjamin how to blow out the candles?  "Shock and Awe"...  the only way to describe Benjamin's reaction.  I bet if they would have waited another 2.3 seconds he would have blown those candles out himself.

ELMO!!!

The gang's all here.  Noah!  No sleeping on the job.  We have a party to hearty.

"Auntie, do I have frosting on my face?"

Kisses from the birthday boy..

Uncle Terry not afraid to cupcake it up

Twins?

Cousin Lauren digs in...

How do you top a 2 year old birthday party?  Mother's Day....  Benjamin and Noah helped make breakfast for one lucky lady.