Messing around at Eastertime

This springtime Marguerite, Jude and Ben have been taking things easy for a bit after having a fair amount of work done on the house ........ recharging the batteries as they say.  Here's what they've been up to. 











Well Ben in nearly three and a half now and he's a full time messer.  Take this pic for example, - here he is playing with Marguerite's ornament.  It's a boat, not a toy boat, an ornament thingy ...... for sitting on the mantle piece and whatnot ...... not for playing with.  As far as Ben is concerned everything is a plaything!

Ben likes to set the table for a party for all his cousins.

On the dark nights Ben ad Jude have been working on their snooker and pool skills.

Ben loves lining up his toys in the living room.

Here is Ben playing with his cousin Ruiari.















Ruairi and Ben playing with cars.















Ben has this toy box in the hallway and he starts looking for something in it things can get messy, real messy!













Little Adam likes to have a rattle at Ben's drum kit every time he visits. 














Ben and Marguerite having some 'hug' time.














Ben's Granny and Granda got him this great race track at Christmas time and every now and again Jude and him get it out for a race.   It's class.












Today is Easter Sunday and as is tradition at this stage Ben was planning a big day ahead.  Here he is starting things off with a few wee Easter eggs for breakfast!












'Hey Ben, I  wonder if the Easter bunny visited us and  left eggs all over the place', said Jude to Ben.  Notice Jude's nice new tight haircut there!

















Before long all the guests had arrived for today's Easter party.















Ben and Adam were today's super heroes!














Auntie Mary and Uncle Kevin (Crossan) bought Kevin this cool Antrim Kit for his birthday last year.  Ben loves it












Ben quickly developed a love of 'Hurling' tops.  Jude took him to the sports shop and Ben chose this nice Mayo kit ........ not because of their great history of hurling heroics but because it was a cool green and red ....... two of Ben's favorite colours.

And check out his cool new hurling boots.  Ben picked those too.  One day he spotted Daley Blind of Manchester United wearing the exact same pair and he shouted, 'look Daddy, he's (Daley Blind) wearing my boots'.  And  he was, the exact same pair.  So now Ben's favourite Man Utd player is  Daley Blind.











These days if Ben is not playing hurling then he's usually playing football. 

Here's a cool football pic pose! 














He's got a ball laying in each part of the garden ...... this time  out in the  front garden.















Ben's boots have 'go faster' stripes on them too! 

Just some of the Easter Sunday goodies.













When Ben's got this face on he's up to something.

And well you might wonder about the Santa hat in Springtime but when a three year old wants to wear a Santa hat well sometimes  you just have to go with the flow. 

He's always messing about that wee lad!