Pop and Nana Babysit

This weekend Andrew and I had another wedding to attend for our friends Nate and Jen so Nana and Pop came out for the weekend to babysit Ben for us. They arrived on Friday evening and left after dinner on Sunday. They had a great time visiting with Ben and Nana even got the chance to spoil him at the Lancaster outlets while all of the men stayed home and had some male bonding time - yardwork, a trip to Home Depot, sports on TV, etc. Even Ben stayed home and supposedly had a fun time at Home Depot with the guys as he babbled away to himself!

Here we are dressed in our finest threads pre-wedding:



Mommy with Benjamin in his cute little Halloween outfit that Nana picked out for him. Oops! Too bad for that hair in front of my face, but a cute photo otherwise so I posted it anyway. Since it's October and Halloween is around the corner, we decided to dress him in his holiday ensemble. Man, Carters must make a killing off of their holiday apparel since they're so cute that they have to be purchased and then are worn only once or twice. There are little candy corns on the pants of this outfit - so cute.


"Smile for the retake, Ben!" (but look at the camera!)


Now he's looking but apparently nobody else knew that I was taking a picture. What a little ham Ben is...he loves the camera now!



Here, Nana and Pop are about to go home so they smother Ben in a "kiss attack." He loved that and was smiling broadly!

Of course this post for our family weekend wouldn't be complete without a picture of Barney. Here he is looking so funny. Our Barney news this week is that after 4-1/2 years of being terrified for some unknown reason, Barney has finally learned to jump into our car. Lifting an 85 pound Labrador up into the car everytime we need to bring him someplace gets old very quickly. So, we decided to go for the gold and try to break his fear this past week. To do so, we started feeding him in the car and he quickly learned that not jumping in the car meant no food. Apparently he wants his breakfast and dinner so much that his fear was quickly overcome, after teetering for only 10 minutes that first day! Silly dog...