Blake and the Bench:

When Blake comes to visit he often uses the bench in the living room for a number of things. Bull riding-how easy it is to become a bull rider and wrap a rope (aka bead necklace) around your hand and ride for 8 seconds. Sometimes he gets a really mean bull and only makes it 2 or 3 seconds. He is so funny, in between rides he walks over to the little bench (bleachers) and sits down to wait his next turn. He talks to the other bull riders as they walk by.
Then on to the bench becoming a pasture for the farm animals. Blake and April set up the animals in corrals and one mean bull jumped out and into the back of Towmater Truck.
Last winter he had the bench be his operating table and April and I had to take turns being a patient. He would "operate" on us and sometimes the operation would be very rough(literally as he would karate chop our backs with his plastic knife), then he would call in the "real doctors" to fix us. We were usually laughing so hard he had a difficult time working on us as we wouldn't lay still. Sometimes he would use the small bench as a floor jack to raise the operating table. (He knows all about mechanical tools as his dad is a mechanic)
They say kids don't use their imagination anymore with all of the technical toys and games. Blake is proof that kids still play with the simplest of toys.
We enjoy having our "monthly visitation rights" with Blake as we became so attached to him when April babysat.
Kenny and Shelley came down later in the evening to pick him up. We then spent time playing with Nathan. He is such a sweet baby, smiles all the time and tries to talk to you. We enjoyed the evening.