Twins vs. Cubs

After church, we went to the Twins game. Here is a picture of my brother with his lollipop.



Here is a funny picture of me with my lollipop.



Here is another silly picture of me, this time with my eyes open.



Here is a picture of Mommy and Ben.



Here is a picture Aunt Michelle and Uncle Jayson. They came to the game too. They were on the other side of the field. If you look right in the middle, about half way up in the lower section, you can see Uncle Jayon's big yellow shirt.



Finally, here is a cute picture of us decked out in all of our Twins gear after the game. By the way, the Twins won, 8-1.

Love,
Cameron

Chillin' in the Hood Before Church

Here is a silly picture of us before we went to church yesterday.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

Vacation Bible School '06: Arctic Edge

Tonight was the wrap up program at vacation bible school at church. Here are some action shots of me doing the program.










It was a fun week. We learned a lot about God and how to courageously follow God. Mommy taught my class, so it was even more fun.

Love,
Ben

Nicholas and Tyler's Birthday Celebration

This morning, we celebrated Tyler and Nicholas' birthdays. As you can imagine, we all wanted to help open presents.



It was only after Cameron got a book that makes noise that he stopped playing with Nicholas' farm set.



Although Nicholas wasn't too excited about his presents, he was really having fun playing with Tyler's presents.



I took this picture of Cameron reading his new book.



At the end, we got this picture with Grandma and Grandpa and all of their grand kids.



Then we ate this cake!

Love,
Ben

A Visit from Cousin Nicholas

Cousin Nicholas came to visit us yesterday. He was in town for Cousin Mike's wedding. You might recall that he was a really little baby during his christening and that he was still pretty little at Christmas. Now he is much bigger and is learning to walk by himself.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

Lobsters!

Aunt Michelle and Uncle Jayson came over for some lobster last night. Here is a picture of me, Uncle Jayson, Aunt Michelle and our dinner.

Love,
Ben

Movie A Holics

Cameron and I had a moving screening for all of our movie friends. We have seen Over the Hedge and Cars in the past two weeks and so we had all of our car friends and animal hedge friends over to watch a film.

Love,
Ben

Me and the Spray Bottle vs. Daddy

I tried to squirt Daddy with my spray bottle and he taught me a lesson with a much more powerful squirt gun. As you can see, I got very, very wet.

Love,
Cameron

A Pirate Says Aaaaarrrgh

Here is a picture of me as a pirate. We got the great new pirate hat today.

Love,
Ben

On the Farm : Week of May 29

We wanted to let you know that we'll be down on the farm this week, so it'll be tough for us to provide updates.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

Cousin Emily's Wedding

We went to cousin Emily's wedding in Rochester on Saturday and had this picture taken with Great Grandma Martha, Grandma Jan, Mommy and me and Ben.

Love,
Cameron

The Hangar

On Saturday, we went to a neat restaurant in Rochester, MN. It is called the Hangar. It is near the airport and has lot of airports and pictures of airplanes. I took these pictures all by myself.



Here is a big red airplane over the bar.



Here is a little yellow airplane by the bathrooms.



Here is a big airplane painting on the back wall.



And here is an airplane landing on one of the front walls.

Love,
Ben

Four and a half

On Saturday, I turned 4 and half. We took a bunch of pictures of me and Peanut (and my brother) on Friday before we went to Rochester.



Here I am with Peanut.



And here I am with Cameron, Peanut and Max the bunny.

Love,
Ben

Pint Size

My Mommy got me these cute PJs at the Baby Gap. They say, "Pint Size" and have a picture of a pint of milk and a cow on them.



Here is another picture of me with them on making a funny face.

Love,
Cameron

Reading to my Brother

The other day I was reading a Thomas catalog to my brother when my silly Daddy snapped this picture.

Love,
Ben

The Rain Forest Cafe Alligator and Me

Tonight, we met one of my Daddy's colleagues who is in town for the weekend and we went to the Rainforest Cafe at Mall of America for dinner.



I got to meet the alligator there and we got to sit under the elephants that blow steam out of their trunks every 15 minutes. It was awesome!

Then, we got to go on a bunch of rides at the Park at MOA (formerly Camp Snoopy, before they lost the rights to use the name).

Love,
Ben

My Last Day of School - The Musical Program

Here is the video that I promised from my last day of school. Enjoy!



Love,
Ben

Our Visit to the Model Railroad Museum

This morning, we went to see the Twin Cities Model Railroad Museum.



It is in a place called Bandana Square. It used to be the Como Shops for the Great Northern Railroad, where they used to repair their engines.



They have this neat engine parked out front.



Inside, it's really big and they had lots of trains running all of the time.



Here is another view.

Afterwards, we were going to go to the zoo, but it was way too crowded. We couldn't even find a place to park, so we went to the pirate ship park again and had a picnic and played before the rain came.

Love,
Ben and Cameron

The Pirate Park

Because it was my last day of school, Mommy and Daddy took me and Cameron out to a special lunch. Then we went to the "pirate park" in Golden Valley.



Here is me on the front of the boat. Daddy kept telling me to say that I was the king of the world, but I thought that was silly.



While I was up top, Daddy and Cameron were down below, steering the boat.



Eventually, Cameron got up to the top of the boat too.



Here I am on the neighboring play structure.



Here is Cameron playing on the little springy thing that was supposed to be a wave runner.



Finally, here I am looking out over the rest of the park from the top of the pirate ship.

Love,
Ben

My Last Day of School

Today was my last day of preschool for the year (and my last day at Peppermint Fence, as I'll be going to Joyful Noise next year).



Here is a picture of my class.



After our program (which Daddy will post video of later), we all had ice cream sundaes. Cameron got to sit at the kids table next to me.



Here is a funny picture of me with toys that I often play with at school.



Here's a picture of me and my teachers. On the left is Mrs. Gallagher and on the right is Mrs. McLean. Daddy is hoping to paste another head on this picture of me when I'm looking.

Love,
Ben