This photo came in a forward from Josette, my French friend who lives in Turkey, today - I thought it was quite funny.
Jake and I spent the morning creating: making pancakes, painting magnets, decorating the front stoop and door with a scarecrow and halloween decorations, and listening to his Kindermusic CD together. The air was crisp and the sun warm and we both really enjoyed our domestic morning of calm.
After nap, Mike came with us to the small playground, where we bumped into Julie and her two kids. Mike tested his new camera again, so hopefully pix will come soon! Jake got very excited watching Meghan, 3 1/2, go down the covered slide, and ventured forth for the first time to go down, which he then did about 10 times. And he waved hi to every single kid that arrived at the playground - my little ambassador.
Mike chatted with Julie, learned she is originally from New Hampshire, and found her very pleasant. After dinner of turkey enchiladas for us and hotdogs for J, we all took a sunset stroll around the block behind our house. Jake learned the words "dead end" and kept repeating them the whole way home. He spoke back to "Baby E" the entire time he was watching it, identifying which lions and elephants were the mommies, daddies and babies. Delightful.
Jake spent his bathtime trying to blow bubbles with a very old bottle of bubbles and then used the bubblewand as a pretend recorder. He loved it when I wrapped him in his towel and called him a pretzel, and loved it even more when I told him I was dipping him in chocolate and that made him even MORE delicious.
He peed in his potty and asked for chocolate, the first time he's done that with me in a very long time.
A very calm nice day all around.
I'm off to go watch some DVDs, either HOUSE or Syriana.
Oh, and Mike and I found some good dates for the next grandma visit - got to tell her the good news!!
No comments:
Post a Comment