Dayton Heritage Festival

That Day in May 2009

Scenes from the annual Oakwood, OH "That Day in May" parade and carnival.

Urbana, Ohio Field Trip

Freshwater Farms: local shrimp and fish producer

touching a turtle


touching a sturgeon


Crabill's 8-seat Hamburger Joint


Robert Rothchild Farms

Pickle Licker

Note to future babysitters...

...when Ben asks to "play with dolls," he's talking about these:

Let's do it again

Since Ben has been a champion sleeper, eater, and all-around pretty good kid from day 1, we have come to the conclusion that all babies are like that, and we may as well have another. Because really, how hard could it be? Right? Am I right? I'm right, right?

Marble Roller

Ben playing with the marble roller that his grandpa Wittmer made him for his second birthday.

You can probably guess.

In the kitchen with Diiii-naaahhhh...

A few movies to share... first, Ben playing his little improvised drum kit:



Singing one of his favorite songs:



And singing another favorite song, which he learned from Miss Sarah in the church nursery:

The saddest little picture you'll see today

So Ben is at the age where he occasionally needs to be disciplined for disobeying. We started with timeouts, but they really didn't seem to bother him at all, so we graduated to standing in the corner. This seems to do the trick pretty well. Even when we're disciplining him, I'm still pretty proud of him for obeying enough to stay in the corner like we ask.