Funny Face

Just liked this picture and wanted to share.

Preparations

We've almost completed our preparations for the new baby. One of the last big jobs to do was preparing the birth tub - a 150 gallon Rubbermaid cattle trough (provided by the midwife) that we had to soap down and bleach. Ben was pleased to do his part rinsing the tub off with the hose. Though he couldn't consistently control the hose he did manage to aim it at Colin and myself a few times and was very pleased with the results!

Race

Recently Colin was in a race that took place in a national park about an hour from our house. We all made the excursion together and I took pictures while Colin exercised and Ben played - we all got to do something we enjoy!

Colin and Ben before the race. He was number 86. Not sure how they chose the numbers, though, as there were only 59 entrants.

One of the race officials had the job of writing each entrant's age on the back of his or her calf!

Ben saw some older boys with their shoes off wallowing in the mud up to their knees and desperately wanted to join them. He kept asking to go in the "bath!" I hadn't brought an extra outfit so I vetoed the mud wallowing. Luckily Ben was content to settle for splashing in the water off the end of the boat ramp instead.

He's just so cute I had to add another picture even though it's similar.

They had free tattoos and stickers. I thought we might have to put it on his belly in order to find an expanse of skin wide enough for it to fit!