Boo at the Zoo

So I've gotten completely lazy about taking photos, as one can tell from the sheer lack of photos on this site and his sister's. Now I'm pretty much taking kid photos with my phone, so the quality is also lacking.  (There is a lot lacking these days...except maybe patience with contractors and that's wearing thin.  Anyhoo.)

We went to the National Zoo on Friday evening for Boo at the Zoo which basically entails thousands of costumed kids (and their parents), sugar, freaked-out-sleepy animals, and crying. But we had fun, meeting up with a few friends and letting Ben stay up a little later.  Here he is a few minutes after facing an acouchi and kneeling down to give it 'una besita' on the glass. He really liked that acouchi. From the photos you can't tell he was dressed in an alligator/dinosaur/toothed-reptile jacket. Not very original, but we had only an hour's notice before we went to the zoo.

Yeah, he needs a haircut; he's starting to look like Carol Brady.

Conversations the Bug has with his pretend cell phone

"Hi! How'er you? Yeah. Yeah. Ha ha ha! ABCD. Yeah. Yeah. Miss Amy. Doggy. Yeah. Yeah. Bye bye!"

Mommy is always there

It is odd how quickly one falls into certain oddities of being a Mom. Not only, am I afraid, do I lick my fingers and wipe stuff off of Ben's face, but I also find myself holding my hand out so that he can spit food into it when he doesn't like something. He also hands me just about anything he finds on the floor and I take it unthinkingly.

This, however, may have to stop.

Yesterday he walked over to me as I lay in bed sleepily (see Ben's new sister for an explanation of the new sleepiness in our lives) with forefinger and thumb extended, to hand me something unseeable. A few moments later he was back, this time with a slight crumb in his fingers. I took this, too.

He then took his forefinger and put it right back in his nose, where said crumb was clearly from.