Ben's first trip to San Francisco

Last Thursday and Friday, we were in the bay area while Drew had a couple of job interviews. We spent the afternoon in San Francisco on Friday where it was very cold and windy. I didn't take a lot of pictures but I did get these ones of Ben by this big fountain near the port authority.

Ben's first time in the ocean

Last Thursday, for the first time in over a year and a half, my two sisters and I were all together at the same time. We took my dad out to lunch by the beach for a late father's day/birthday celebration. After lunch, we walked over to the beach. Ben put his feet in the water for the first time and was a little skeptical. We did manage to get a few smiles but most of the time, he had a serious, I'm not interested look on his face.

Here he is with his aunt Stephanie. He hadn't seen her since we left Colorado and as soon as he saw her, he remembered her.

Feeling the water with my dad...

The next three pictures are what pretty much all of the pictures look like. He seriously would not smile.

Hopefully he will start to enjoy the beach as he gets older. I think his dad would be sad if he didn't.

He's definitely all boy...

For those of you who have spent time around Ben, you know that he is all over the place. The boy does not like to sit still. He also isn't afraid of much and will attempt to climb anything and everything. Yesterday, he got his first scooter (he likes to be pushed around on it) and 10 minutes after opening it up, we had our first incident. He tried to climb on it by himself and took a tumble. His head hit the kitchen floor pretty hard and cut it open. It wasn't a big cut but it was pretty deep. We wanted to make sure that he didn't do any damage to his head so we were off to the children's hospital emergency room. He checked out fine there but since the cut was a little deep, they glued it shut to prevent infection and bad scarring.

He had to wear a little gown while he was getting cleaned up. It was so cute on him that I had Drew take pictures with his phone..

Ben was a real trooper through it all and by the time we got home, he was happy and running all over again. He now has a big band-aid over the cut so he doesn't rub it, which he is not happy about. The originally put gauze over it but that didn't last a minute before he pulled it off.

I have a feeling this is the first of many trips to the ER that we will be taking over the years.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope all of you had a wonderful 4th of July. We all had a very nice day that included a bbq and swimming. Here are some pictures that I got of Ben this afternoon.