Blake took the temperature of everything in our closet. He told me they were all healthy.
* Whenever I tell Blake to stop doing something he shouldn't, he always says "I'm just _____ and then procedes to tell me what he is doing as if it is then justified.
* Whenever I ask him what he wants to do he says "Play a game or something."
* For the past month or so we have been working on saying the "s" sound. He would always omit the sound with blends like the word "smoke." Anyways, I praise him when he says it right and he is always so proud. Today we were waiting at the doctors and Janie started clapping her hands (a recent development). I was so excited and kept squealing "yay!" for her. Blake I guess was feeling ignored or needed some praise himself so he looked and me and yelled "smell!" I made an equally big squeal for his s word.
* Sometimes when I tuck Blake in he will ask me "Who loves me?" And I will name everyone I can think of. He beams. Whenever I stop he asks "Who else loves me?" I always have to end by telling him that everyone loves him.
* Sometimes when I ask Blake to do something (like sing a song) he says "No. I'm too big."
* The other day we went for a walk and Blake asked if we should go straight or normal (pointing to a turn).
Then we drove on to St. Louis. We were busy but it seemed so relaxing. I think it is because Blake played with his cousins in the basement for hours at a time without coming up or needing anything. This has never happened. I even felt like I missed him because I am so used to spending every minute with him. But it was great. He was so happy there and he was such a good boy.
The weather was great about half of the week. Eric got to go golfing with his dad. Eric and I went running one day. It snowed Thanksgiving Day.
Helping stick in the Christmas lights.
Marita and I took the kids to a children's museum called The Magic House. Blake wanted to go fishing the whole time. He would catch a plastic fish but wouldn't touch it. He would make us take it off the pole.
My Aunt Sally is a great knitter and told me about this famous yarn shop in St. Louis. She said she would be jealous if I got to go to this store and to be sure to take lots of pictures. This place was loaded with yarn.
Playing Thanksgiving Bingo
We didn't celebrate Thanksgiving until Friday because Eric's brother and family arrived Thursday night. We went bowling on Thanksgiving and it was actually pretty crowded. Blake loved it and happily bowled each turn for two games. He always wanted to keep bowling until all of the pins were knocked down. They had this device that he could push the ball down the ramp to bowl. I hadn't seen one before. After Eric helped him the first game, he said "I want the other boy (Uncle Nathan) to help me." Eric got his highest score of 201. He had 3 chances for a turkey (on turkey day no less) but barely missed it each time. Bummer.
Cute cousins waiting for Thanksgiving dinner.
Marita wanted to have a little Christmas program on Saturday night. Newel dressed up as Santa and gave each grandkid a bag of treats. When Santa walked in the room Blake said "Grandpa?" I was surprised he could tell because I thought Newel pulled it off nicely. Even though he knew it was grandpa, he was not a fan. He wouldn't sit on his lap. He grabbed his candy bag and ran. Janie didn't like him either. Last night when we got back to Michigan, Blake said "Next time I go to grandpa's, I'm going to aks (ask) him to not to be Santa."
The kids played Christmas songs on the trumpet and piano. You can't tell but Janie was bouncing like crazy to the music.
Then the kids decorated ornaments and foam stockings.
I knit this little diddy while I was there. It only took me three days!
