Lately...

We've all been pretty busy on day to day activities lately.  Leslie is busy at school, getting ready to submit her papers after being selected teacher of the year at McKinley.  I've been doing lots of basketball games, and the new semester began last week.  Emily has been taking care of Benjamin, and Benjamin has been trying to fight through a cold.

I keep watching Benjamin every time he rolls over into the "crawl position," as he rocks back and forth a few times, and almost takes that first crawl.  Right now, he just ends up flat on his stomach, then tries to roll his way over to whatever item he wants to try to swallow.


What's most interesting to me right now is the difference between Emily when she was this age.  When Emily began moving around and crawling, I don't think she ever found a wire, plug, or much of anything other than her toys.  Benjamin, however, already has some sensor in his brain to find anything and everything that could cause great deals of 1.pain or 2.destruction... It should be quite interesting when he becomes mobile :)


Emily's been very interested in my stories lately.  Since I'm not nearly as good as Leslie when it comes to good stories, the only thing I've been able to do is recount all my Sierra games from my youth, but insert her names instead of the main characters in the games.  It seems to be working pretty well, and for anybody out there who knows Sierra games, I'm on King's Quest IV right now, and Princess Emily is hiding in the Ogre's closet waiting for him to fall asleep so she can get the hen that lays the golden eggs.

--Oh, and for those that didn't know already, the "Bath time" post a few down -- That's Emily when she was Benjamin's age, and Benjamin now in the bathtub.  Most people I've talked to thought it was only Benjamin, pretty close resemblance, huh?