Go Cubs Go!

The Cubs are playing the Cards tonight, but Ashland is in bed right now, so Tyler and I are cheering extra hard for them tonight. The picture is him in his new Soriano Jersey. He would wear it everyday if we would let him. His ears are doing pretty good. Right now we are fighting yucky allergies--we think. He is coughing and fighting a runny nose. Unfortunately, these allergies are more than his allergy meds can handle. We just have to keep fighting.

All is well in the Benner household. We are three days away from a three day weekend. Racheal is on first shift so life is extra good now. We get to eat dinner as a family, take family walks, and spend more time outside than when she worked second shift. We occasionally go and get ice cream and take fishing trips as a family too!



We spent last weekend at the lake. Ashland learned how to fish. His papaw taught him the basic technique of fishing and that's all he wants to do now. He loves it! He hasn't caught any fish yet, but we're going to give it another whirl this coming weekend. This weekend is the kick off for summer :-) We are going to have a mini cookout at the lake and do some fishing out on the boat!



While at the lake this weekend, our crazy silly black lab, Cora, decided it was time for her to learn to swim. As you can see in the picture, she isn't the best swimmer, but she did well enough to keep herself alive. She also made Ashland laugh histerically. At one time she jumped into the water and swam to the dock to hold herself up for a while because she was so tired. She is so silly. Because she was jumping in the water, our baby puppy thought she could jump in too. We made sure to keep a close eye on her and the closest she got to getting in was getting a drink of lake water. The dogs love going to Grandma and Grandpa's and getting to run in the yard. They run like maniacs and Ashland runs with them. It's is a very good time had by everyone :-)

Grandpa and Grandma Benner are coming to visit on Saturday. They are going to look at some houses with us and then the girls are having a shopping day while the boys are going to stay home and probably catch some rays and play outside. We're pretty excited to have them in town. We can't wait to get a house so we have some space for them to stay when they come to town.


Oh yeah, Ashland is now able to count to four, unassisted. It's pretty neat. Every day he gets better and better. And a funny story to leave you all with. I had a pork roast in the crock pot today. It had smelled up the house, and Ashland is not used to the house smelling like food. When Ashaland got home from daycare he said "Ew. Mommy, somebody pooped!" After he looked around for a few minutes trying to find the "dog poop" I told him that it was dinner that he was smelling and he said "No Mom...I no wanna eat dog poop for dinner!"

He's so funny sometimes.