paternal instincts

we have noticed the past couple of months benny's innate paternal instincts and it has been so fun to watch. benny sees what i do with andy all day and he wants to do the same things: lifting him from the floor (grabbing him around the waist and pulling), feeding him (i always use a blanket, so feeding andy consists of holding him on your lap and covering him with a blanket), etc. benny's been pretty good about not trying to do tons of things with andy. what i think is so cute is that he'll take various stuffed animals and parent them.

these are some of my favorite moments:

you can see andy poking out the left side of the blanket. i love how happy benny looks to be "feeding" his brother. as long as he's not lifting up his shirt, i'm happy too!

for the record, benny did put the bar with toys in by himself (it's detachable). i did the buckles, though.

i really like these two pictures. spencer took these when i was at a meeting a couple of weeks ago. whenever benny sees me taking the baby bjorn out, he knows that it means we're going on a walk (i need a picture of the circus that we are - pushing benny in the stroller while carrying andy in the baby bjorn - it's quite the sight). so one evening benny wanted to take his dog for a walk. spencer got him all set up with the baby bjorn and benny loved it!