Tuesday, December 11, 2007

For Grandma Judy





Here you go grandma - Ben in his "Granddaddy Cornell" cowboy hat, just in time for for the NFR.

Grandma Judy & Granddaddy Ken gave Ben this cowboy hat when he was just a newborn little cowboy & now he's more than big enough to wear his hat. I think we need to go to the rodeo - or at least to Woodland where Ben can be a real cowboy!

And speaking of cowboys, Ben doesn't look like much of a cowboy here. In fact, you can see why he is so often mistaken for a girl (even in the most masculine of outfits.) He has a bit of a penchant for lip gloss - definitely not a cowboy! Here are some of the comments I've had lately when I am out in public with Ben -

Besides "How old is SHE?", the most common is - "Oh, look at HER curls!" Everyone loves Ben's curls, whether they think they belong to a baby girl or a baby boy. And then a few weeks ago, we were in Cedar City at Del Taco eating dinner on our way to the cabin for Thanksgiving, and a couple of a guys kept watching us. As we were leaving, one of the guys looked at Brad & said, "wow dude, 4 girls, huh?" Hardly - but, it's OK - we're not offended by the comments - we know Ben's a total little dude - lipstick & all - and that's all that really counts, right?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Everyone lovves Ben's girls"—I assume this was a Freudian slip instead of "curls". But it just goes to show that curls = girls.

LaRae said...

OK Doug - that's what I get for doing blog posts at 11:30 at night! I have fixed my Freudian typo! It is "curls" - not "girls" - and why I had 2 "v"s in "loves" is beyond me!

Anonymous said...

Did Ben put his lipstick on by himself?

Katie said...

You know that picture will come back to haunt him someday! I can relate-- I too, had a beautiful girl with beautiful curls.It's okay, we all know how manly benny is!

leave it to doug to find any errors. He's a machine!

Janae said...

Oh that Ben...he is the cutest thing lipstick and all! He's all boy...I wonder what that would be like?!@?#

LaRae said...

Judy - I know you would suspect that one of those big sisters would "lipstick up" Ben, but he did it all by himself! He got into the drawer with my make up & made himself look pretty.

dawnae said...

You need to frame one of those cowboy pictures...they are the best....so precious!