Ice Ice Baby

You know what the perfect 'toy' is to give to

two toddler boys on a day when the

temperature

hits 106?

Two big tumblers full of

crushed ice.

And did they ever have a ball

playing with them!

Unexpected Acts of Kindness

It's the little things that can thrill a young child's heart. Yesterday, as one of the garbage trucks that come by on Fridays was coming down our street after emptying a dumpster at a nearby church, it pulled to a stop in front of our house. Dylan, Cooper, and I were standing there as we always are when the weather is nice on Garbage Day. Dylan...and now Cooper...is absolutely obsessed with garbage trucks. As Dylan stood beside me in wide-eyed wonder, the sanitation worker jumped out of his big truck and came over to him. "Hey there, big guy!" he said. "I still have a button that needs pushing and a lever that needs pulling." He reached his arms out to Dylan. "Do you think you're up to the job?" My grandson, who is usually quite shy about being touched by anyone he doesn't know well, jumped into the man's arms. The gentleman took him over to the truck and as Dylan pushed the button, then pulled the lever, he explained what the truck was doing and allowed Dylan the time to watch the process. As he brought Dylan back over to me and set him down I told him, "You don't know what a gift you just gave to this little boy!" and I thanked him profusely for taking the time to let Dylan experience being a "gar-car worker dude" for a day. And believe me...Dylan relived it all day long.

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words....

On Thursday, I gave Dylan one of those disposable Fuji film cameras, showed him the basics of how to use it, and then let him go with it. It took him maybe 5 minutes to take all the shots! We walked to Fred Meyer on Friday morning to drop it off. This morning we're heading back up there to pick up the photos. I think he might've gotten some cute ones of Cooper. He might've gotten some pretty freaky ones of me and his Auntie, since the camera was pointed directly in our faces when he snapped the pictures. Who knows...maybe we'll have a budding Ansel Adams on our hands?

I had a horrible nite's sleep. I couldn't shut my mind down, then had bad dreams when I finally nodded off. One nice thing about a nite like that, I should be dead tired and sleep like a freight train hit me by the time I hit the sack tonite. Our son called last nite. He's had the boys on his own most of the weekend while his wife went to her hometown's All School Reunion. He said they were really good at the zoo on Saturday but beyond that it's been nonstop go go go. Hmmmmmmm....I can relate to that! It's supposed to be up around and into the 90s all week, maybe even 100 on Sunday. We'll see. The weather in this part of the country can turn on a dime. Dear Hubby's planning on riding his bike all week. The man is crazy.

A budding genius....

My 15-month-old grandson Cooper is a technological genius. Don't ask me how because I don't have a clue how he did it but he somehow rearranged the recording status on our DVR. Now, instead of Number One - our main TV - being the primary recorder of anything we want to watch, he 'fixed' it so that Number Two - our daughter's TV in her room which she seldom ever watches - is. So....now we're able to watch anything out here in the living room while whatever we want recorded is taping away thru Daughter's TV. How cool is that? Maybe y'all already know how to do all that and are wondering why I think that's so great. You have to know us to understand just how techie challenged both Dear Hubby and I are. I mean, we are hopeless.