Waco Wetlands Part 2

Benjamin at the Waco Wetlands (and at the end of a loooong cold)  

             

One of the first posts I made on this blog included pictures of JB and I at the Wetlands with wee Ben just weeks from being born.  I was remembering that day when we returned to the wetlands this past Sunday afternoon with Benjamin almost 17 months old.  Benjamin is such a nature boy, and the Wetlands did not fail to excite his curiousity.  We took pictures on the dock you see here because it is the only one with railings to keep him from throwing himself headlong into the water.  He wanted to reach, reach, reach into the water (maybe like Curious George in one of his books?) with no sense that it meant falling in.  In the pictures below, JB is holding him tight as he reaches in to inspect the snails.

And this below is where I found Benjamin one morning soon after he had woken up and gone downstairs.  He put all of these instruments up on the bench by himself and contented himself banging away for at least 15 minutes.  Just enough time for me to get breakfast together, milk warmed up, and coffee brewing.  As I was listening to him play, I was impressed that he was going back and forth between all three instruments--usually he gets fixated on just one.  

Next post should be full of pictures from our spring break trip to New Orleans!