elmo wants to be a chicken

yesterday, when katie was babysitting boden she brought along elmo/chicken. boden sure loves elmo/chicken. he wasn't hardly out of bed and he was already talking about elmo.

here is boden with his elmo/chicken

just a bit

to keep you going... sorry there hasn't been many blogs of late. i will try and do better this summer. just put some more pics in the may 2008 album and thought i'd give you a little teaser to help you make it until i get to a more substantial blog!

went to the beach on memorial day. found out that boden DOES NOT like sand.... guess we better work on that this summer...

went up to hoffmaster for a memorial day cookout with the fam. i just love this picture of eric, boden, and his steenwyk cousins!!!

so, we are getting to that time of year again where i realize i don't have anything that fits properly on my son! notice the pants that are two inches too short and the shirt that look two sizes too big! this boy just keeps on growing and with the changes of the season i just don't know what to do!

tractor!

boden sure has fun riding on papa's tractor..

song time

changing channels

for a while now whenever boden wants me to sing to him, he will squeeze the skin on my face near my mouth and say 'dah, dah.' then he'll curl up in my lap while i sing. it soon moved on to include eric as well. in the last week or two now he seems to be getting more picky about our singing. before we could sing any song we liked and he'd be content as a lark. well, now if he doesn't care for the song we have chosen to sing, he will lift his head up and squeeze our cheek and say 'dah, dah' (eric has observed that he will squeeze the opposite side) until we change the song we are singing. he will do this repeatedly until we land on a song that he likes. i'm not sure if he is looking for a specific song or just changing the channel until he happens upon a song that he likes.

you may have noticed, but i did away with the word wall. the child of ours is spitting out more words a day than i can remember. he will try nearly any word you ask him to say and has a pretty high percentage of getting it right. so, i have officially given up in trying to keep track. some words of late that i'm particularly proud of though are pray, Bible, and Jesus! :) boden has started understanding somewhat praying with us at meal time and will stop and hold our hands and say amen at the end. if we pray longer than he feels is needed, he will often times start saying amen loudly before it is done.

another funny thing, boden has taken to calling eric 'big daddy.' :) we never told him to, he just started. it is pretty funny.

thinking arby's?

oven mit!