The Fair

It was amazing and once we saw the animals, played in the grass and went on the rides. The animals we saw were cows and sheep but not pigs. The rides I went on were cars that looked like motorcyles. Jordan went on the Tilt a wheel and I went on the little Tilt a Wheel. We picked R before we went to the fair. That's all!



Mom typed what D said.

My Trip to Ilwaco and Labor Day Weekend

I swam in the water and made a castle with da da. When we were about to leave I crushed da da's castle. I went to another beach and then the waves where coming at us and we were knocking at them. Then we were playing in the sand and I fell down in the water. We um got in our car and then we drove to our borrowed house with Moogie. Then we were playing with blocks. Then we were still playing with blocks and making our own creations and then we showed them to everybody. We were reading stories, Make More Spaghetti and other books. Then we left and we were at a place that we eat. And that is all!

Labor Day weekend I had people over. I played with and they played with us. That is all we did. Then we were trying to sneak in and say boo to that girl's sister. That's all!


Typed by mom as told by D

The Continuing Adventures of the Young and the Reckless

So as you probably know, little D does do his own stunts (he even has a shirt that says so). But, at 3, with not a lot of practice under his lack of belt, they don't always go smoothly. The pictures below attest to this, which is but the latest (although greatest enough to be posted) of a continuing series of injuries, large and small.

Like most 3 year old boys, he feels invincible, especially on a vehicle, and this was all the result of a 3 way trike to bike to car (little kett-car) accident.

Happens on a Wednesday and he bounces back with a little black eye like it really is nothing. Next day, he plays all day, not a care, face looks fine and then.......It's like 5-6 at night and he and three friends are out on the trampoline. Next thing you know, everyone is running inside saying 'OMG, you should see D's face', along with a consistent story of how nothing happened on the trampoline to cause it.

Wow, balloon it did. The eye still a little black around the edges, but the face itself (from cheek to chin) flippin huge. A lopsided blowfish and then some. Funny part is, he still didn't really care, opened his mouth and smiled and said it didn't hurt. Out came the ice pack and the children's motrin, along with the phone call to the doctor the next morning to express concern and describe the multiple colors beginning to emerge as a lovely batarang pattern on his whole left side. Nothing to do about it really. Watch the colors change, look for any lack of improvement, hope he doesn't whack his face again.

And a week (12 days now) pass. He no longer looks like a chipmunk, but there is still a lump in his cheekbone (pretty sure he fractured it), his eye still has a black ring and the rest of his cheek is still a pale, bile-like color. I can't believe how long it has lasted, and I can't even describe the colors we have seen in the week since the accident. Perhaps the pictures will speak to this a bit.

And we prep for the next injury, as he moves from this scarring, not a care in the world, continuing along the path of the young and the reckless.

Rope Ladder

As you may have read on the Family Site, or any of the others, over the past few months, we have quite the climber in the family. J started it, climbing trees from an early age. He would climb everything in sight, if he didn't have the conservative bend that he does. Little D, however, does not have these inhibitions.



He will climb, does climb and has climbed, everything possible. ***In fact, I had to pause for a moment just now to go answer the front door. It was little D. He climbed the fence in back and went around front to ride his bike. Doh! So, my lovely wife decided if he was to climb everything, why not give him some challenging things to climb, to curb the climbing on everything else.



And here we go. A rope ladder. These pics were taken when we first put it up (we have since moved it to a better spot on the deck), but as you can see....it took no time and no encouragement for the climbing to begin. Its a challenge and it swings around, but both boys seem to have no issue with scaling the thing.

J won't go quite to the top of the deck yet, and D only gets so far before his feet hurt (and yes, duh, he could wear shoes, but...), but it has certainly helped with the urge to elevate.

I think we are going to add to it a bit and work on stabilizing the 'spread' to make it a bit easier, but now, in a grand tradition of making a living playground, we have added a new attraction to the obstacle yard.

Later-E

Learning to Swing

J recently taught D to swing. Below is a video and a picture of the event. I'm so proud of them.

It's funny from the boy that himself took forever to learn the technique, but I couldn't be more ecstatic myself. J was patient and understanding and explained how to lean back and forth in a way that little D just took to.

One day 'push me', the next 'I'm gonna go swing'. Wow.

Later-E

I can ride a trike!

D did really well on the trike today!

Rock Climbing Class @ FW CC

Here is D climbing the rock at the community center. He no longer takes this class but we still go in to climb from time to time.

PE Class @ FWCC

Here is video of "my" PE classs