Fort

We had a new dishwasher delivered yesterday and what an exciting thing the box has become! Andrew took the bottom off of it and Ben immediately claimed it as his fort. He loves to sit in it, bring his toys inside to play and hide from us in it.

Making silly faces for the camera!

Finally, here is one clip of Ben being silly. He's inside his fort playing but it's become a joke that when you ask him how old he will be in a few weeks he tells you 9, 6, 5 - any number but 2! Of course he always eventually tells you the right age with a smirk and will sometimes even say "Nooooo" after he fibs about his age! Despite all of his joking, though, Ben has really become good at his letters and numbers lately. He knows just about all of his letters, most of his colors and can count to 10 when prodded. He likes to point out the letters and numbers whenever we see them in books and signs.

Our favorite letter story is one he has finally gotten over but it was very cute while it lasted. He loves B the best and thought a capital R was a broken B for the longest time. Whenever he would see an R he would become concerned and start saying "Oh no! B!! Uh oh! Oh no!" Now he recognizes that it's an R and will tell us so, but his former confusion is one of our favorite stories.