We’ve had a nice weekend.  Yesterday we took Davey to DeGray.  It’s so pretty there.  We got Sonic burgers and cheetos.  Actually David ran 13 miles yesterday, so he felt that he should have a foot long chili cheese coney.  Davey had a few cheetos and that was about it.  He was too excited to run around and play.

On our way back, we drove up 26th street and noticed that the water park was open.  We hadn’t gotten any pictures of him there yet this summer, so we decided to go.  It was about 6:15 or so, and the weather was beautiful.  It was almost chilly to get out of the water.  Davey attempted the small frog slide one time.  David let him go at the top, and I caught him at the bottom.  It is a very short slide, but it scared him.  Poor thing, he was very brave.  I caught him and he said, “I’m ok, I’m OK!”  We didn’t try the slide again.  I bet that next summer he will be flying down it all by himself.

He liked building sandcastles at the lake.

This picture is a little blurry, but I just love it.

Davey’s eyes appear closed, but in this photo – I really thought it was a nice photo of David.

Davey was having so much fun!

I took some pictures of the guys I am making.  Davey is really enjoying them.  I crocheted the giraffe and the alligator from patterns.  I knit the chicken from a pattern.  (I refer to him as worried chicken!)  Davey wanted a flamingo and I didn't have a pattern, so I made him up.  Now that was fun.  I am just making it up as I go along from now on.  He turned out ok for my first try.  His neck is a little long and his legs could be a little longer.  I ordered some safety eyes, but I haven't gotten them in yet.  I could sew on some eyes, but I don't mind him without eyes either.  

Not the best photo of the giraffe.  I was trying to be fast, because Davey wanted him back!

See why I call him the worried chicken?  Poor guy – what an expression I gave him!

Same story as the giraffe on the photo.  I wanted to "pose" him better!

But this is a lot of fun.  Now Davey is asking me, "are you making a fox?"  I just started one.

I have been making Davey some little animals.  I started by knitting a little bitty chicken.  I call him the "worried chicken" because well the expression I sewed on his face makes him look worried.  Now I am crocheting amigurumi animals.  I started with an elephant.  I used too fine of yarn and too big of a crochet hook, so he's not great.  You can see stuffing.  The hippopotamus was much better, but the yarn was a little soft and the hook a little big.  The giraffe that I finished today is much better.  Good old cheap acrylic yarn seems to work best, and using a hook a least a size smaller.  He's cute.  

Davey loves to watch my process.  He walks up to me and says, "a giraffe?  You making me a giraffe?"  I tell him that I am.  He likes to check my progress and ask me many many times.  He was so happy to see the finished giraffe tonight.  He gathered it up with the rest of the animals.

He knows that I am making them using a pattern from a Vanna White book.  He loves to look at the book and pick out the other ones that he wants me to make.  He walks up to me out of the blue all the time and says, "you going to make me a walrus?  a seal?  a lion?  an alligator?"  He has studied the pictures and knows which ones he would like to have.  We talk about this a lot!

20 years today!  We had a nice day with Davey.  It was an odd day as Davey and I didn't get up until 9:15am.   I had trouble falling asleep last night, and then Davey woke up at 5:30.  His feet were itching.  He said, "I need lotion.  I need lotion."  So we put some anti-itch hydrocortisone stuff on there and then some Eucerin.  We applied Eucerin a couple of times.  So he went back to sleep in bed with us.  He woke up briefly a couple of times, and each time he did, he scooted me closer and closer to the edge.  Finally I switched to David's side since he was up, and we both slept.  

We went to Andy's for breakfast.  The weather was incredible this morning.  Such an odd day.  It stormed this morning and afterwards it felt like Colorado in the fall for a little while.  It was incredible.   It was starting to warm up, but David went for a run and Davey and I went to Ouachita and to see Ms. Claire.  (We finally bought the knitting needle canister thing that he loves to play with so much.  It has a cat painted on the top.)  He loves putting things into it.  As a matter of fact, tonight he had a cupcake.  Like a true son of David, he was primarily interested in the icing.  He took the rest of the cut up cupcake and put it into the canister before I knew what was happening.  

We played this afternoon. Davey and I took a piece of butcher paper and put these little circle stickers all over it.  Just circles that you might use to tag things in a garage sale.  It looks cool. We put it up on his wall. He loves for us to hang things on his wall.    He also painted with watercolors for the first time today.  He did great with that as well.  No nap was going to happen since he slept so late this morning.  That was the first time he'd ever slept in like that.  

We went to TaMolly's for dinner.  It was ok – Davey ate well and that's always very nice.

I think this time 20 years ago we were at a wax museum in Branson. 🙂  The wax museum was lame, but we didnt' mind.