Just playing with my cousin

As has already been noted here on the JohnstonChronicles, Emerson and Benjamin had a grand time just playing...  One of the things they did was color and write. 

 

Their Papa nabbed them whenever he could...to try and hold them together - a difficult task!

They both got a little marker on them...but none on the floor, none on the walls, mainly just on the butcher paper...

Emerson has loved to write 'ABCs' and '123s' for quite awhiile...

They were both pretty intent in their writing...

OK, enough of the writing...it was time to do something else.  I'm not really sure what they were looking at here...but they seem to be in awe of something! 

My little men!

My little men who are almost 2 1/2 years old!  Emerson will be 2 1/2 in 11 days... Benjamin in 28 days... how can that be?  I can't imagine them not talking...not running around.... but at the same time, I so remember these little guys as, well, little guys!

This was hilarious...Emerson sitting on one of Benjamin's 3 potty chairs..and then Benjamin taking a seat on his lap! 

Oops....let's switch!

Next up was cars!  Benjamin loves to do this...he and I did it when I was here when he was recovering from pneumonia...and he loves to do it with his daddy... and now, what fun to play cars with his cousin!

I absolutely love this!  Look at Emerson's follow through!  That little car was zooming across the floor!

Emerson figured out the car didn't roll as well on the carpet...

so the boys went to rolling the big truck...

 Nope, never mind the truck.  Emerson decided to stick with the blue car!

 I love his arms!  He put his all into zooming that car across the floor!

 OK, let's check out the truck...

 Time to examine it...

 I think this little man was starting to wind down...

 starting to get ready to settle down for the night...

until Uncle Donnie, or 'Daddy' to Benjamin, decided to do a little wrestling!

What fun for these little guys to have a cousin so close in age...what fun for this Mimi to have two little men growing up together...

One of the many things I'm grateful for!