Another wet day.

Rain continues to fall here as a series of fronts pass over and around us.  It is terribly challenging to keep him inside all of the day, so when we go out we occasionally get wet.  You'll notice that theme in the photos that were updated to this album.

Spring continues to flourish, and is thriving with the current rain fall.  Making planting a bit easier on the body.

Enjoy your day,

J

A few too many updates missed

The young one is currently considering how many more ways he can stay awake, despite his obvious desire for rest.  Perhaps the hum, rattle and shaking of the earth from the construction next door is keeping him awake.  At least they'll be finished with the noisy stuff in a couple of months.

Here are a few highlights from the past few weeks:

• In stead of a constant reply of NO to every question asked, if you ask the correct question you will get a smile and nod of approval for you finally reading his mind.
• He is heading into his third week of preschooldaycaretraining and loving it.  They are loving him, and at times are communicating very well.
• He can consistently coast on his two wheel "bike".
• Over the last few days you get a relatively constant teekoohh after provide any number of different services.
• He understands and prefers to water the front garden by hand with a spray nozzle.
• He and I both are adjusting to the new pollen that has enveloped us during this year's spring bloom.
• The bugs that prefer to remove your bodily fluids are quite large and agressive.  However, quite easy to remove from the population at large.
• He now is understanding that turning the wheel on his minimonstertruck turns him left and right.
• Below are a few photos updates.  Link to the larger album, which will get updated once or twice more this month.

Cheers,

J

Some rain fell

A trip to the coast

Over the weekend we enjoyed a stay in Rhode Island with Aunt Ellen and Uncle Steve and of course Scooter and Lacy.  Spring temperatures have encouraged lots of outdoor activity and this weekend was no exception as Saturday and Sunday seemed cloudless each day.

The general idea was to relax, ride bikes, roast meat and boil some lobsters.  I can happily report that each of these goals where accomplished and more.  Stone was very happy as not only was there ample outdoor space to roam freely, there were four humans to serve him and two dogs to chase and entertain him.

As a load of mulch was recently delivered for the property, Stone was glad to assist in the distribution of the mulch in locations throughout the yard.  At times he would assist by getting into the pile and helping get some into the wheelbarrow, at other times he would do his best to make sure that he removes it from the intended location and is distributed in a three foot radius around him.  His preference for his tiny green crocs meant needing lots of sock changes ... lots.

In other gardening related assistance we did manage almost give him the concept of watering; in that you have to occasionally point the water at other plants, not simply make pool of mud to dive into.  Inevitably, he simply watered his legs and hands.  Yep, more sock changing.

In other firsts, he decided to practice rock climbing and wall walking.  As one might imagine there were varying opinions on the potential outcome of this new found skill.  In the three day visit not once did he fall ... off of the wall ;).  

As I type he is starting his daily breakfast feast, which I know will then lead to the following "conversation": dady, downtide, shoo shoos with a grabbing of my hand and or foot ... Enjoy some downstairs outside (downtide) time wherever you are.

I'll update this post later with some images from the weekend.  For a few more photos take this link.

An afternoon nap

Stone an I ventured out on our second consecutive daily (maybe) bike ride. This is of course the first riding I get to do with the "new back". Here is today's result: