Latest Passion

While this may look like Ben's previous hobby of choice, sweeping, it's not. He's currently obsessed with anything pertaining to lawn maintenance, specifically mowing, weed-wacking and blowing. This one time sweeper is now the weed-wacker, his play mower is the lawn mower and his golf club is the blower. "Lawn care" can go on for hours. Even more than playing landscaper, he likes watching it in real time. When the guys come to do our yard he watches, completely speechless, at the door for the full 30 minutes they are here. Pretty much nothing else shy of Elmo actually being in our living room would keep him that still for that long. He can hear a neighbor's lawn mower, weed-wacker or blower (yes, he knows the specific sounds each make) about a block away and requires that we rush outside to try and figure out where its coming from so we can watch. I was able to persuade him into a walk in his stroller the other day by saying we were going "lawnmower hunting".

In this pic he is weed-wacking. The second pic is of the weed-wacker over his shoulder as he brings it to the truck because he's done. At least he has a good imagination!