David got on the ladder with the apple poker stick thing and started knocking them out of the trees. I still think I had the toughest job scurrying around half bent over trying to scoop up rolling apples.
He finally took a bite out of one though and it was so good that he had to pause in his picking to enjoy it.
We had a nice weekend. Saturday we went into Glenwood and did a walk/run around the track. (I did – David hung out with Davey.) He took him to the fairgrounds next door where some people were riding horses. One girl offered to take Davey for a ride. David did not take her up on that, but he did briefly kind of perch Davey on a donkey named -Jack! Davey was not too excited and actually lifted his legs as he does when he doesn't want to walk and you try to put him down. David held him for a second though and Davey gave the donkey a few pats.
Yesterday we picked apples with Jerry. I will put up some pictures of that later. David got up on a ladder and used a extension reacher thing to get a bunch down. Beautiful red Rome apples. We'd never tasted apples that good. I froze some in, and we have lots to eat. Jerry has this very neat apparatus on which we placed the apple. You position the apple and turn the crank, and it simultaneously peels, cores and slices the apple. Now that was fun. I think you could do 12 apples in the time it takes to peel, core and cut up one by hand with a knife.
Then we noticed that Davey had some black flecks on his chin. We determined that he is teething on the rail of the crib. I had seen him lick it before but never chew on it. Sure enough, there are some teething marks. So I just ordered a rail pad thing. It's soft and hangs over the rail. Hopefully it will do the trick.
Davey has a cold. He wanted a bottle at 3:30, and then he was ready to get up at 5:20. He's not feeling so swell I think. So it's almost 7 am now – he is probably almost ready for a nap. Me too!
Cut up a banana for Davey the other day. He ate the entire thing and as you can tell he enjoyed it thoroughly! He is having to scramble and dig in that plastic bowl as he dropped the plate that I initially put them on and for some reason it shattered on the linoleum. I figured we probably ought to switch to plastic.
Yesterday morning, David got up first and after he walked by Davey's room, I started to hear "dada, daaadaaaa, daadddeeeee, daaaadaaaa" over and over again. He was trying to get someone's attention!
He is also saying mama, moooo (he loves those cows next door), and papa (He also loves Papa Jerry). He likes to try to say thank you and green. "dank guuuu and guhheeeenn"
He is trying really hard to walk. Yesterday he started taking about three or four little running steps when they are going to land him against the couch or us or one of the cubes.
We also watch the squirrels from the back window. They are working hard. There is a pecan tree right behind the house. They carry pecans one by one somewhere right by or inside the woods. They haul buns across the yard. They are not dilly dallying around. I just turned my head and saw another squirrel outside the window working on a nut. They are fun to watch. Need to take some pictures and scrap them!
Got this fun graphic from my friend Pam and my online scrapping buddy Laura:
Thanks a bunch! I love it!
Davey and I just got back from Hot Springs. He's taking a nap now although he's not quite asleep yet. We went to McDonalds for lunch. He loves to watch restaurant employees. Loves it. He watches them work. Every time one passes by in any restaurant he has to watch to see what they are doing. He's a curious george.
We took some of my favorite pictures of the week last Saturday:
I also did a layout of a funny picture of Michael. I kind of liked how it turned out:
We put Davey’s new shoes on for the picture of the week – actually from last Saturday. I am a little slow to blog. They are soft soled little shoes, and he seems to like them. In this photo, it looks like he is really checking them out – maybe not to sure about them. He didn’t try to take them off though and wore them for several hours. A good debut!
Davey really wants to walk. He stands up and thinks about it, but he is not quite ready to take that first step yet. So instead he drops back to his knees and does that unique crawling technique of his where one leg is almost walking to propel him along. That’s ok. I am in no hurry!
He’s a busy kid! He wears himself out I think. He took two nice long naps today. I worked on my houseshoes that I am making. I am having a lot of fun learning to knit! I will have to post a picture of them when I am done. I almost like looking at the yarn all rolled up in its nice ball more than I like seeing it made into something. I found that I like knitting with wooden needles best. I am using some made from bamboo right now.
Cpeezers 