I have been working on baby sing language for the past few months with Benjamin. He is just now starting to understand and repeat the signs. Today he even did the sign for "more" before I asked him. He is really coming along. I hope it helps us both communicate in the coming months. Some of the signs are real sign language and some of them I made up. Here is a great site to learn more signs.
These are the signs he can do-that doesn't mean he knows what they mean yet. I'm just saying he can repeat them.
- washy washy~for washing hands
- All done ~ when he is finished eating (he usually just starts throwing his food on the floor instead. This one is going to take some time to master.)
- Bonk bonk ~for when he falls down and gets hurt (he usually taps his head repeatedly I don't know why he didn't for the video)
- more~ when he wants more food or drink
- eat~ when he is hungry
And here are some we are working on.
- milk
- water
- cookie
- dog
- airplane ~ right now he just points in the sky when he hears one instead of doing the sign.
I'm sure I'll post more pictures of it when we actually get it.
I never put up all of the cute pictures we took of Benjamin at the pumpkin patch. I hope you can see them all. He had a great time eating straw and nibbling on pumpkins.
As you may know my parents come to visit us every other month. Each time they come we try to take them some place fun. This month they came with us to the pumpkin patch. We all had a great time, aside from the fact that it was really, REALLY hot. It didn't feel like a fall day at all. 
The day before Halloween Tom and I went to a friend's B-day party. Happy 30th Ditte! It is so fun to have such great friends so close.
On Halloween we took Benjamin to two houses. He is too little to understand what was going on. He refused to hold his basket (he loves it today). We basically just took him so I could get some pictures to blog about the occasion. I hope you enjoy them :0). We had a great time visiting and enjoyed watching all the trick-or-treaters walk around the neighborhood.
This is the first of many posts. As you can see I'm a little behind. Life got a little crazy before Halloween. I never said anything, but this summer I was released from Young Womens and I am now the Activities Chair. It is a fun calling but very stressful for me. 
Although it was stressful it turned out really well in the end. Thanks to everyone that helped out!
How amazing is this! It is called "The Workbox" It is made by a company called "The Original Scrapbox" I would love to have something like this someday.
Jennie, Carl, and I outside Mt. Timpanogos Temple
For the big party Betheny and I made a cake. Unfortunately we didn't have time to make it as cool as we wanted to. It should have little fish all over the blue. Oh well, you do what you can when you have 4 kids running around. I am hoping to get into cake making; we will see how it goes.
We tried taking the train into Salt Lake but the cards were stacked against us that day. After missing 2 trains, a cracked windshield, leaving carpool kids at the school, a thunderstorm, and it costing double what we thought it would, we decided we weren't suppose to go for some reason. So we all stood at the station and waved goodbye to our train.
We have a pirate park in Oxnard right by the beach. A few weeks ago my friend Kimberly and I did a play date with our boys. It was really hot but the boys didn't seem to mind too much. They had a great time.
Benjamin having fun on the swings
Chase smiling for his mommy. Isn't he just too cute!!??!!
Kimberly is also my walking buddy. We try to walk 4-5 times a week.
I love taking Benjamin to get his picture taken at JC Penney. I always plan on it taking over an hour so I don't get too frustrated. They never turn out exactly like I hope but we did get a few good shots.
