Projects

At a church women's retreat last fall, one of the women brought a whole car load of hula hoops for us to play with.  So we let go of our inhibitions and learned to hula hoop together. Don't ask how long it took me to be able to keep the hoop up.  It probably helped that we were all inspired by the woman who brought them--she did all sorts of cool tricks with a hula hoop and made it look downright elegant.  Apparently hula hoops are the hot thing in Nashville right now. (hello, Waco!)

So she promised to host a hula hoop making party, and last weekend we cut plastic tubing, fused it together, and used colorful tape to wrap it all up.  Someone asked me if JB would want to try out the hula hoop, and I said that he would scoff when he saw it.  But I brought it home, and he said, "Alright! A hula hoop!"

Benjamin does not so much like the hula hoop. He thought it was funny for the first 30 seconds of watching me do it, but then he got bored and decided the hula hoop was getting more attention than he was.  I'll just have to put it away and take it out when he goes down for his nap.

Benjamin likes daddy's projects a lot better.  He's been helping daddy with the patio for months now, moving rocks, lightening the soil with a little added sand, and showing us (over and over) that there is no possible way to make a patio baby proof.

Just in the nick of time, JB installed this baby swing on the porch to keep B out of trouble.  You can't keep this boy away from a swing.  I don't think I've seen him happier than when he is swinging high at the play ground, laughing out loud.   

There is also this one other project of mine that Benjamin has enjoyed recently--chocolate cake for JB's birthday.  I think the picture below is B eating black beans, not chocolate cake.  

Benjamin also helps with an almost daily project:  he gets pretty giddy when I tell him its time to do the laundry.  This week he climbed all the way into the dryer with the whites.