Today Davey and I hung out.  We are heading to Oklahoma tomorrow and so we rested up today.  I started to pack for Davey tonight, and I realized that he has grown out of almost every one of his t-shirts and shorts.  It’s going to be 85 in Oklahoma on Friday, so I figured we are going to have to break out the summer clothes.  Looks like we will be making a trip to the store to get some before heading home tomorrow!   Sweet growin’ kid!

Davey had fun playing with his barn today.  He carefully lined up his animals in the barn.

Yikes!  An alligator in the barn!

Then he was a ghost!

And he popped out!

Fun stuff!

A couple of miscellaneous things:

He has taken to calling David “Dad- O”.  Don’t know where he got it but it is cute.

Davey likes to pick dandelion flowers for me.  When he sees one, he runs to grab it.  Even if I am standing right beside him, he then tucks it under his shirt and says “Mommy!  I have a surprise for you!”  Then he gives me instructions on putting them in water.

We just put him to bed.  He had his bath.  We brushed his teeth.  He likes to brush his teeth for awhile too.  We read 5 books  (We made a trip to the library this afternoon as well).  He was pretty tired tonight as he didn’t ask for stories or songs.  He fell asleep pretty quickly!

And that was our pretty quiet day.

The dinosaur is slowly chipping away at his shell (ok or the shell is dissolving). Davey has determined that he is a t-rex.

We pretend to be a little scared!

And then we decided to make cupcakes.

We made the Pioneer Woman’s recipe.

Here is something I should not have done.  The recipe calls for baking soda and vinegar (among other things).  Well, I could not resist putting the vinegar directly onto the baking soda in the bowl so that I could show Davey the fun bubbly reaction.

I think I deactivated the baking soda?  Many of the cupcakes had little sinkholes in the middle.  They still tasted good though and actually it was a chance to sneak more icing on there.

Davey decorated them.  He went with a combination of star sprinkles and M&Ms.

Then he wanted to eat one (meaning he wanted to lick all the “icin'” off one.)

Then he made a big mess with the icin’ and so he decided he needed to get rid of his icin’ed clothes.

Maybe tomorrow the t-rex will have emerged completely from his shell.  Davey will be downstairs first thing in the morning to check.

Last night Davey decided he was going to put Koko to bed and get her all tucked in.

Koko, the 15 year old Chow, was not having any of it.

This did not phase Davey.

Davey prepared her bed.   He spread out a quilt and brought in Winkie the Bear.

Unfortunately, Koko was on the move.  Now Koko watches over Davey.  She sits by his bed.  She is curious about what he does throughout the day.  She, however, does not want to play (or be tucked into bed).

Davey was not deterred.  If Koko would not come to her “bed”, the “bed” would come to Koko.

Koko decided she’d better leave the room.  (Poor old girl.  Her posture reminds me of Eeyore.)

Davey tried to lure her back.  He got out pieces of a car track (tan plastic strips which vary in length).   He told Koko that they were “international dog bones”.    She was not interested.

Davey is nothing if not persistent.  He went right after her.

A few minutes later, David and I heard Davey talking to Koko.  They were downstairs.  Davey was holding up a picture of Koko and Timber.  He was saying something like “Isn’t this so so precious?”  I couldn’t find the picture on my computer so I took a picture of a picture.

After that, I think Davey let Koko have some peace.

I’m thinking Koko might appreciate us finding a younger more energetic dog to play with Davey.

The title represents Davey’s current favorite Little Einsteins episode, and as it so happens, it is also becoming very Springlike around here!

It was beautiful out this afternoon, and Davey was feeling better.  So we spent some time outside.

He practiced his throwing.  He was having a little trouble really rearing back to throw until I told him to pretend he was throwing one of his toys when he gets mad.  That helped him.   A lot.  Maybe not my best idea.

And he practiced catching.  It was one of those velcro pad catchers.  I had no idea the strength of the stick when the ball attaches.  Davey could hardly work it off there.

Then he decided that kicking the ball would be more fun followed by throwing the ball around the yard and chasing it.  That was followed by finding a small green leaf and bringing it to me.  A lovely gift in my favorite shade of green!

*David was actually an important part of the ball throwing lesson.   The best evidence I have is Daddy hands helping Davey to throw.

We spent a lazy day at home today.  I worked on my lace.  I finished another pair of “Jiffy Mitts”  (I need to take some pictures.)  We watched the Masters.

I am just now where I am able to watch golf without having nausea flashbacks.  The year I was pregnant with Davey, I stayed pretty green and so I laid on the couch and watched a lot of golf.  Sometimes I watched all 4 days of the tournaments.  It was a glorious green time (Outside and Inside!)   It’s just this spring that I think I am over it!

So anyway.  David and Davey were miserable today.  I don’t know how Davey stayed so almost completely good-natured today.  His eyes and nose just ran all day long.  It was pitiful.

He ate well and was pretty energetic for much of the day.  He’s looking a little more pretty bright-eyed here.

Let’s see.  I made some muffins this morning.  I mention it because it is my favorite muffin recipe ever.  They are called “To Die For Blueberry Muffins”.   They are delicious.  They have a crumb type topping.  I didn’t think it would be possible to have too much buttery/sugary/cinnamony topping, but I found it to be possible.  So now I just make 1/2 of the crumb topping part of the recipe, and I find that to be plenty.  I typically use frozen blueberries as well.

Ok, so I think it is time to go knit abit.  I really ought to work on that second crazy sock.

So my parents are moving to northern Maine in a few weeks.  They’ve lived in Oklahoma almost my entire life so that would be over 43 years.  They are moving to a house right on the coast.  It is beautiful there.

Anyway, they are getting rid of some things as they are moving into a smaller house.  One of the things they are not taking is a worn-out coffee table they have had since I was a baby.  I wish I had a picture of it.  I probably have a picture from my pre-digital days.  Those poor photo albums are buried somewhere still.

The table was cherry and was an oval shape so that there were no sharp edges.   I am the oldest child and I used that table to help me learn to walk.  My sister and brother came 3 years and 6 years later, and they also practiced their first steps by walking around that table.

My dad is a woodturner and he came up with the idea that he would take the legs off the coffee table and make us each a vase.

Here it is:

Here it is with the top removed.

And then I was just having fun taking pictures of it.

It’s quite a treasure for us.