Going down to the Brazos River...

Benjamin's favorite thing to do outside right now is to
climb trees.  They are imaginary worlds where he can
lose himself for quite a while.  

The highlight of our church's annual Easter retreat for me this year happened in a few fleeting minutes that I was lucky to catch.  Bed time for Eliza Jane is usually 6:30 or so these days, but since she was getting over a stomach bug and had slept way more than usual during the day, I decided to go ahead and take her out to the Saturday night variety show.  JB had told me earlier in the day he was going to try to get Benjamin to get up and sing his song for everyone.  Benjamin sings this little song he made up all the time, but I had my doubts that he would be game for performing it with all the people and the microphone.  I sure wouldn't want to do it.  

But sure enough, he went up there and belted it out and even said, "I want it to be louder!"  Going down to the Brazos River, the frog goes croak!  Other verses follow in which other animals and people make various sounds and do various things by the Brazos river.  It is charming.  

Well, yes, this is the best we could do this year.
E was getting over being sick, she feels that dresses
cramp her style, and she lost one of her own shoes
so is wearing some old ones of Benjamin's.  

There he is in the picture below, a little performer.  He may look more like the Wilson side of his family right now, but he is his father's son all the way through.  

B did a little Easter egg hunt at school the week before Easter.  It was fun to see him with a group of other kids.  He looks so independent when he is with his classmates.  But he is still 3 and would rather be with me : )