Weekend Recap: Farmers' Market & Fun With Auntie Anna

Work has really been taking over my blogging time lately!  I feel like I am working on notes for work nearly every night.  Boo!  I am happy to report that this past weekend was much better than the previous weekend.  Ben is back to his happy self and thus I am too.  Since Ben and I are not huge Friday fish-fry fans, we went to one of the only restaurants we could think of that was fairly Lent-friendly.  I'm pretty sure Ben was more excited about the chalkboard wall than eating, but it was a good motivator to get him to eat.

I had to go in to work for a bit on Saturday morning and Andy wasn't feeling the greatest, so it was music class for Benji and Nana.  After that, we headed to the indoor farmers' market.  It was super crowded in the actual market area, so we pretended that we were outside and explored the domes.  Ben loved watching the trains and fish, and of course, trying to reach all of the branches when he was on daddy's shoulders.

We stopped for lunch and Ben may have eaten his biggest meal yet!  Give this boy a fork and he doesn't stop eating!  I probably get waaaay too excited when he eats, but I can't help myself.  :)

Ben had no problem springing ahead for daylight savings.  He used it as an excuse to get up early.  ;)  He must have been so excited for his date with Auntie Anna!  She invited him to be her date for a birthday party for her boyfriend's niece at the children's museum.  He isn't smiling in this video, but his face would light up whenever we talked about going to a party with Aunte "Ahn." Side note: Andy and I had a little day date while they partied.  Shopping and lunch, just the two of us.  Definitely a rarity!  Thanks, Auntie Anna!

Ben looks like he thinks Auntie Anna is too big for his truck, but he drove her to the grocery store anyway.  Oh, and then he found a chalkboard wall.  He loves "rawing" with chalk so much that if I didn't think they were totally messy he would definitely have one of his own. :)

After spending all of his money, he was spent himself. 

Amazingly, he still had enough energy to make me dinner.  He has been obsessed with helping Andy cook lately.  I love it.  

Last but not least, a school update.  I snuck away from work so I could meet Andy's mom at school for the drop off.  We were just fine walking down the hallway-- talking about making pictures for momma, eating lunch with the kids, etc.  However, as soon as he realized we were headed to his classroom, it was waterworks time.  UGH, I seriously almost started crying too and I couldn't even look at the teacher.  It was so sad.  He tried to hide in a corner outside of the room.  Waaahhhh.  His teacher took him from me and he quickly nuzzled his head into her shoulder, still crying.  I wanted to watch in the one way mirror, but that might have actually made me cry, so I headed back to work.  About an hour later, I got picture text from the teacher (didn't know that was an option!!) saying that he was doing well and playing with the kids.  Do I see a SMILE behind that nuk??  Such a relief!  He even ate AND made some beautiful art!  HUGE progress!  So proud!

Well, it only took me 3 days to write this post, thank you, work.  I even gave up Facebook for Lent and I still don't have much free time.  ;)  Tomorrow is Thursday though, which is almost Friday, which is almost the weekend!  And tomorrow is also Ben's half birthday; I can hardly believe it!  I think this calls for a half-birthday party!