Mommy's Bufferfly

Lately I have not been able to get Cael to look at me when I try to take his picture. I read about a little trick and tried it.

It might a have been a little lie. But guess what?? It worked!

I told him there was a butterfly in my camera.

He actually looked right at my camera.

He stood there for about five minutes.

He was very interested and even stood still.

And got really excited when he "saw mommy's bufferfly"

Now, too bad we weren't in the right lighting. I was afraid to make him move, but I am hoping he will want to check out my butterfly more often!

Countdown to PopPop's House

Cael and I made a paper chain to help us countdown the days until we head to PopPop's house. We have some excited people around here!

Here are the things that Cael is excited about doing!

* Going on golf cart rides (PopPop, you need to make sure you have it there ready for us)

*Seeing Grammie

*Seeing Uncle Tim, Uncle John and two Beth's.

*Seeing the dogs...all the dogs.

*Picking up pine cones, although not sure there are any to pick up right now.

*Getting to go see the Choo Choo's and airplanes

*Riding in PopPop's big truck.

*Playing more

*Getting to eat at Chick Fil A

Disclaimer : I might have added one of the above to the list, can you guess which one?

Get ready for us PopPop....6 days until we come!

I Hate Goodbyes and Thin Crust Pizza

If you know me, you know I h.a.t.e. goodbyes. And the truth is, I am always in a little funk after someone who is visiting leaves. So the past few days have been a little crunchy for me.

We said goodbye to mom last Thursday. We drove her down to St.Loius and got there in time to eat dinner. The plan was to find a fun Chicago restaurant, something we can't get here in Springfield. Online we found a BBQ restaurant we were going to check out. I was more than excited! We don't have a good BBQ place around here so I was ready! We pulled up only to find out it was closed. Bummer. We only had an hour until we had to be at the train station so we headed to a pizza place around the corner, Imo's. It was absolutely disgusting! At least it gave us a good laugh. And the best part...my mom kept telling us they did something wrong with the dough. She was convinced the dough didn't rise properly. When we tried to explain to her that it was called thin crust pizza she told us we were crazy. Seriously?? My mom didn't know there was such a thing as thin crust pizza?!?

It ended up that we had a lot more time than we thought. Her train was a couple hours late. We ended up ditching her at the train station. Cael was tired and both Steve and I had to work the next day, so we said our goodbyes and left her at the scary train station all alone. I did feel bad, until my head hit the pillow at a decent time!

Thanks mom for coming, and thanks for taking such good care of us while you were here!

Illinois State Museum

Today we went to the Illinois State Museum. It's a great museum and it's FREE, which makes it even better. Most things are still a little to advanced for Cael but there is a new interactive play area for kiddo's that opened up this week.

Mom and Cael checking out some of the displays.

He was scared to death of these guys, we finally got him to walk up to them but there was no looking at me for a picture.

Cael listening to one of the interactive displays. They give you a card to slide which activates the display, again the things they were saying were above his head but he like to listen anyway.

This is in the new kids area. This microscope was very cool, it was favorite part. They had all sorts of things for you to put under it and inspect.

This was a dinosaur dig. They had all sorts of dinosaur bones buried that the kids got to dig for.

Cael working hard on his bones.

Grammy got in the action also.

It's going to be fun over the next few years taking Cael and watching how he continues to learn from all the exhibited and things the museum has to offer!

Making My Mom Work!

It's nice to revers the roles and have a list of chores waiting for my mom to do! :)

Washing windows was on the top of that list.

And no, she wasn't the only one who climbed up on things. We had a nice system, I would wash and she shined with newspaper.

Thanks mom!! We make a nice window cleaning team!

In other news, I am feeling so much better. Evidently what I had was a 24 hour deal, actually really just 15 hours. Regardless it was nasty. I will spare you the details, but my friend Amy did teach me a new term that I put to use lots yesterday.

Glad it's over!

By the way, I was only kidding about having a list of chores for my mom. Well kinda.

Blah

I'm sick today. We had invited John and Sondra over for dinner and had to call and cancel. Bummer! Thank goodness my mom is here to help with Cael. I spent 7 1/2 hours in bed. One hour was spent with Justin and Amy (sorry guys) and the rest was spent....well, in the bathroom. I think Cael may have passed on whatever it was he had the other night. This too shall pass....and hopefully soon!

A Night Of Dominoes

Grammie, Cael and I played dominoes tonight. Little man beat us 3 out of 3.

Cael is happy and Grammie is sad about the outcome of our games.

Cael and Grammie decided to build a tower. I love the concentration.

And what's the best part of building a tower??? Knocking it down!!

I wanted to show you Cael's new shirt (Target for $1.49). This is the only way he would let me take a picture.

He's a stinker!