I'm grateful for hand-me-down Sunday clothes.

 

I'm grateful for Spiderman and Captain Binky-face.

I'm grateful for my graduate.

I'm grateful for in-season cherries.

 Happy, cherry-faced Ben.

The cherry-chomper.

I'm grateful when some of the toys don't get picked up at Zeke's preschool.

(Ben, walking on stilts.)

I'm grateful for fun days with Dad.

I'm grateful for puppies and sticks, and this cute girl.

I'm grateful for impromptu street corner jump rope.

I'm grateful for helpful big brothers.

I'm grateful for high walls for sitting.

I'm grateful for big brothers to teach us how to use sticks.

I'm grateful for homemade berry donuts.

I'm grateful that he understood something from the book.

(Note:  The Hobbit is a childrens' book, but I do not recommend it as a read-aloud for children under age 7.)

I'm grateful that they make their beds before breakfast.

I'm grateful that the stroller has two purposes.

I'm grateful for hand-me-downs.

I'm grateful for trampolines with nets.

I'm grateful for silly hats.

I'm grateful for SuperBen.

I'm grateful for these children, who never get tired.

I'm grateful for their imaginations.

Spiderman to Superman:  Quick!  Ben!  The bad guys are stealing our gold balloons!

Superman to Spiderman:  Let's blast them with our blasting guns!

I'm grateful for Friday Morning Oatmeal Breakfast (no fighting over who gets to look at the cereal boxes!)

I'm grateful for friends.

I'm grateful for this dune-buggy toy.
Ben likes to pull it back and watch it race.  

I'm grateful for the Getty.

I'm not grateful for all the self-important people at the Getty, but for whoever made the Family Room at the Getty.

I'm grateful for the beach.

I'm grateful for jet-booster backpacks.

I'm grateful for bunny ears from his school

I'm grateful for opportunities to apprectiate that my fear of heights is not genetic

I'm grateful for TV time with big brothers

I'm grateful for egg hunts.

(Ben thought that a proper "egg hunt" ought to include guns and shooting, just like a turkey hunt.)

Happy Easter!

I'm grateful for the dump truck.

I'm grateful for Captain Ben, who doesn't need a map.

I'm grateful for Easter egg practice.

I'm grateful that a little seaweed gets a big grin.

I'm grateful that the skaters don't come out to play before 10am.

 

I'm grateful for two little bottom teeth.

 (I will be more grateful when there are two little top teeth as well...)

I'm grateful she cannot take the lids off of chapstick - yet.

I'm grateful for enormous popsicles.

I'm grateful for the chain gang at the beach.