At five years old, our sweet Bennie boy is the love of our lives. He lights up a room and his energy is contagious.
Our big guy is quite the curious little dude. Often thinking of questions that I am not always sure how to answer. He is also quite practical and after I hesitate for a bit, will come to the answer all on his own (leaving me to wonder why I didn't think of that).
At five years young, Ben has a laugh that is so full and rich it seems like it should belong to someone much older. I count myself lucky in that I hear that laugh frequently. This little boy finds humor everywhere.
Energy seems to be endless for our oldest Beetle. He is busy, busy, busy from sun up until sun down. Sometimes I wonder how he can keep going. My dad jokes that he only needs a ten minute rest or so and his batteries are recharged and he's ready to go again!
This sweet boy of ours is so very kind. Sometimes his kindness pulls at my heart strings and I wonder how we have managed to raise such a beautiful boy. At the beginning of the school year all of the children tie wishes for the year to a tree. At conference time his teachers told me most of the kids wished for silly things, but Ben's wish was: "that we all be friends." Talk about making a mama proud.
At five years old, this little man loves to work. Give him a job and he'll give it his all.
He loves all things construction or "worker-man" like. Our water heater went out at home a while back and for days he went around the house pretending to be the "water heater guy," constructing intricate pipe designs and telling me we were going to have a flood, but not to worry because he would take care of us.
Art, crafts, painting, clay, glue - you name it and he loves it. A day filled with project making would be the best kind of day in his book. He was lucky to spend a lot of time with his grammies over the summer and they both came up with tons of projects for him (which he now stores away like little treasures).
He adores his brother and sister (and at four months old they think pretty highly of him, too!). Along with the little people in his world, his aunties, uncles, grandparents and cousins top his list of favorite people. He often reminisces of time spent with his family and always asks when he gets to see them again.
He is absolutely fearless. We recently went snowtubing with some good friends from college and Ben was busy going down double black diamond runs while I was shaking in my boots. He convinced me to go with him and I told him I would but that I was going to close my eyes the whole way. He told me I couldn't do that "because I would miss all the excitement!"
This little boy lights up my world. I live for his hugs, kisses, laughter and story telling. Happy birthday to my biggest boy...who will always be my baby:)
Pictures from the big five year old's special day (which started our with a water main flood in our road, which was pretty much a birthday present in and of itself for this guy!), followed by arcade games at Chucky Cheese's and cake at home with his brother and sister (complete with party hats for the whole gang)!
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