Grandpa G and CC Visit

Grandpa G and CC visited us this weekend all the way from Florida and both of the boys had a great time seeing them! Here are some photos of G and CC getting acquainted with Nathaniel. He has become so much more alert lately and seems to enjoy looking around to check out his environment and watch whoever is near him. Of course he still sleeps a fair amount during the day but we have been seeing his eyes a lot more lately.

G and CC with both of the boys. As usual, every photo we took had one of the boys not looking at the camera, fussing, etc. So this was the best one we got, even though Ben looks a little zoned out.

Here is Ben exploring some of his new big brother gifts - a wooden workbench and a new puzzle. He's extremely mechanical so both of these items were big hits! Ben seems to be getting very used to this whole "big brother" concept and has highly been encouraging us to feel free to have more kids if it means he will get to play big brother again! :)

For dinner one night we went to one of our favorite places - a Japanese hibachi restaurant that is closeby. We had never taken Ben there and figured he would enjoy the cooking show and he did enjoy that...

Ah, three generations of Martin men and their serious expressions as they watch the fried rice being made :).

Ben also really enjoyed the chopsticks and was actually fairly competent at getting some food onto them and into his mouth, even if he wasn't using them correctly. Fried rice was a big hit with Ben!

And of course the ice cream after dinner was an even bigger hit!

We also took the boys to Chuck E. Cheese's for lunch one day and what a fun time! Nate and I spent our time at the table since he was sleeping through the outing, but Andrew, G and CC took Ben around to play on some of the rides.

The basketball game was most popular. Ben loves any sport or game that involves a ball and had such a fun time shooting baskets. He made several dunks and 3-point shots! :) Once he finished the game he would stand there and say "more, more!" until they put more tokens into the machine.

Here he is playing Skeeball, another popular game of the day!

Ben can definitely be fearful of anything new and is always cautious about going on rides so he resisted at first. However, once they coerced him to try out the car ride and a few others, he seemed to enjoy them.

Finally, the slide, a favorite activity!

The weekend could not be complete without a few goofy photos so here they are. G and CC bought the boys adorable matching outfits for this summer, complete with sunglasses. They are precious, especially Nate's itty bitty sunglasses :). Here are the boys and Grandpa G in their shades. Ben found this hysterical and Nate seemed unfazed, especially once he had his pacifer in his mouth :). What cool dudes!