The Early Adventures of Benjamin X and Agent Eli

When Jill & I first came up with the idea Ben's first and middle name (Benjamin Xavier), I made up a whole story about "Benjamin X" being a great secret agent.  (I actually think that these stories helped sell the name to Jill.)  About that same time, Jill's good friend Danielle had just had her baby, Eli, and they both were imagining that the two kids would not only also be great friends, but they would also be in the spy business together.  So they asked me to include Eli in the story about Secret Agent Benjamin X. 

That's when I came up with the story idea of "The Amazing Adventures of Benjamin X and Agent Eli."  I had a whole story line built up in my head and Jill & Danielle would both laugh and giggle when I told them about some of the adventures that Ben X and Agent Eli would go on.  The stories got so elaborate (in my head) that I considered writing some of the stories as children's books.  Needless to say, we had a baby, and well, we had no time for anything else.  So the children's story books idea went out the window. 

But, the children's story idea did lead me to start this blog as a way of both sharing Ben's pictures with our friends and family and keeping track of Ben's development and his great adventures.

So at this point, neither Ben nor Eli are secret agents, but they are getting to be friends.  So today I present some of the early adventures of Ben X and Agent Eli.

Here they are in their high chairs discussing their next mission - how to escape from these high chairs...

Here's Ben getting caught trying out some of his pick-pocketing skills. 

I think Ben thought Eli had some cheerios in his pocket.  But he got caught.

Instead of some covert method of 'borrowing' a toy, Ben just goes for it and snags the floppy frog right out from Eli's grasp.   Ben's learning some bad habits from those kids at daycare.  All those times he got his pacifier stolen from him, Ben's learned now to strike first.

Ben's practicing his "I'm completely innocent" look....

Damn, he's good - I believe him.  He didn't do anything wrong!

Well, it would seem that all is forgiven with this very un-spy-like kiss of exoneration.

And finally they've both been captured by the big bad momma's...

I think these two boys have a lot to learn if they really want to get into the spy business. 

They absolutely can get a free pass to the "cute" business though.