Instead of a Chicago trip with Junior Highers . . .

It was hang out with Oliver day!! Yeah!! What fun to have a special day with Oliver. I picked Oliver up at 7:45 in the morning to head over to Bonnie's Cafe for breakfast with Morfar and Pastor Saari and his wife, Priscilla. Bonnie came over and doted on Oliver as he ate a piece of toast and cheerios.

Then it was off to Mormor's house to play.
Kleo went outside and Oliver went to the door to find her. They played a rather cute game of peek-a-boo. Kleo watched Oliver and Oliver tried to figure out how to get Kleo back inside laughing the whole time.




Oliver had applesauce and more Cheerios, sneaking a few to Kleo on the side. He loves to make faces at Mormor as he sits in the highchair.





Then we decided to read a little. We found a book on synonyms (words that have similar meanings). First I read it to him and then he decided he was a big boy and could look at the pictures himself.




He also discovered the fun of having Mormor pick up 20 wiffle golf balls and put them in a bucket so that Oliver could dump them out and watch them roll all over the living room, down the hallway, out to the kitchen, and even some under the couch.

Thanks Oliver for a fun day at Mormors.

Time is ticking away . . . .

Oh boy, does that ever describe how it is with me. Last weekend we closed up the trailer for the season, not to return until April 15 (and that can't come soon enough). It was beautiful weekend to spend out of doors, raking the leaves, at least what was currently on the ground. Let me tell you, we will have a bunch more in the spring. As we set around the fire and looked up to see the stars, I realized that there were still quite a few leaves on the trees yet, thus you could see no stars.

We welcomed J and Mick back to our house while their newly refinished hardwood floors dried. It is exciting to see the progress and participate in helping them to make their home reflect them in colors and arrangement. Soon we will be celebrating with them the finished home.

This week was to be when I made my annual trek to Chicago with the junior high from Central Baptist Church. Having not been there with them for a year, I was looking forward to another great time of sight-seeing and visiting a ministry. Alas, at this time our junior high is very small and not enough signed up to go. Instead this will be the first MEA weekend that I have been home for many years. We will be taking the junior high to a movie on Friday night instead of Chicago.