Davey has grown increasingly independent lately.  At least he wants to be!  "I can do it alll by myself!"  "I want to do it all by myself!"  So today he wanted to go up the steps at the art building by himself. They were too steep to walk up, so he semi-crawled up them, but he did it alll by himself!

I got him a mini Doodlepro thing today.  He loves to draw on it.  It is hard for him to pull the lever and erase the picture on this smaller one, (He does it great on the large one) so he says to me, "Mommy zip it!", and I pull the lever for him.  He told me he was drawing a mouse.  (We had just read, "If you Take a Mouse to School".)  He told me as he was drawing, "I am drawing the tail, the body," etc.  I couldn't tell exactly what he was drawing, but I know that he could tell in his mind!

No nap for Davey today.  That's two days in a row.  He was pooped when he went to bed.  But we had a nice afternoon at OBU.  He played and played outside.  I made the mistake of taking him into the bookstore to get t-shirts.  He was an incorrigible whirling dervish.  He wanted to touch all the stuffed tigers.  He wanted to take things off shelves.  He wanted to pull the shirts down off hangers.  If I told him, "please don't touch", he just went into faster whirling dervish mode.  Finally, I picked up the wiggly kid and got the heck out of there as fast as we could. 🙂  He had a great time!  Mostly he was just trying to show me things.  And if you see 10 stuffed tigers sitting on a bottom shelf, and they are all looking at you, what in the world are you supposed to do but try to pick them all up?!!?

Two weeks ago we went to the Ouachita football game.  Davey kept talking about the Tiger Mascots. He liked the Tiger, and he also liked the lady Tiger.  He calls her “Princess Tiger”.  He was too bashful to go shake hands that night however.  So after he knew we were going to the game again on Saturday night, he said he wanted to shake hands with the Tiger!  Well once we got there, he was too bashful to shake their hands.  They were silly with him though and soon he warmed up to them.

Davey enjoyed watching the game with David, but just for a little while.



This has been the week of the fair.  On Wednesday, we went over the fairgrounds so I could submit 3 things that I knit.  Socks, An infant kimono, and a sweater I made for Davey. I noticed as I submitted them that they were all some shade of green.  I didn’t do that on purpose, and although I do love green, I do knit things in other colors.

After I turned those in, we took our first walk around the livestock. Davey loved the cows, bunnies, poultry, pigs and goats. We looked around their several times.

On Thursday, we went to the parade. Davey loved that too. Loud fire trucks, horses, the bands (OBU, HSU and Arkadelphia High), he was very excited. He also loved picking up the candy that was thrown out. He can’t even eat most of it yet, but he did not care. It was just fun picking it up.

It’s been raining cats and dogs all week too. But it let up for the parade yesterday, and it let up for our two visits today. Davey and I went this morning. We looked at all the animals, again and again and again! Davey loved seeing the cows. He told me that the bunnies and poultry were trapped in their cages and they couldn’t get out! I told him that they were keeping them safe in there so they wouldn’t get hurt. He seems to already have a very kind heart toward animals. Yay for that. He also got to pet a cow. He was a little hesitant, but I reached out and petted what actually was probably an enormous bull, and I said, “he’s very soft”, so then he tried it. Just once though.

We went back tonight with David. We had planned to try to go to the livestock show, but Davey wasn’t interested in watching it for too long. Too slow-paced I guess. We looked at all the exhibits (my knitted stuff all got first place. I don’t quite understand how that whole process works. Everyone gets first or second (mostly firsts) and then there is one (or two or three) awards for Best in Show. It was fun though.

Davey had his first ride on the merry-go-round. He loved it!

Here is another one of my favorite pictures of the night. The little boy is learning to say cheese and throw us a great grin with it. 🙂

Another highlight was Davey milking the huge cow. (not a real cow). He just had so much fun!

Today Davey was eating some vanilla wafers.  He brought me part of one and asked me to give it to Timber.  I got the dogs each a vanilla wafer plus Davey's extra piece for Timber.  Later, he was eating crackers, and this time he gave me a small piece saying: "Give this to Koko".  So the dogs each got a cracker, plus a little extra for Koko.  It was such a sweet gesture.

Davey is having such a good time riding his horse. We brought it back from Glenwood yesterday because he is finally just about big enough for it. He doesn’t want to ride it without a hat, and he has specifically requested a cowboy hat. 🙂