It’s about time to get Davey to bed.  He’s had a fun day.  He ended up spending most of the morning playing with the little girls across the street.

I did go to the grocery store, but I did not go to the library or post office.  Oh well, they’ll be there tomorrow and Monday.

I did buy postcards.  I learned about a website called Postcrossing.  You ask for an address and then you mail a postcard to that address.  Once you’ve mailed out a few and they have been received, then you can also receive postcards yourself.  You can start out sending 5 of them.  I thought Davey might really enjoy getting postcards from people from all over the world.

I got postcards ready to go to China, Russia, Germany, England and Texas today  (I guess I checked the box that we’d do domestic cards as well).  The website has been around for about 6 years.  They have rankings and one person has sent over 5,000 postcards!  Davey and I will make a bulletin board or something.  We won’t get too crazy with it.  It should be fun though!

This afternoon, Davey and David (mostly David) drew a Legion Of Doom city and whatever the superhero one is called.  Hall of Justice?

You can kinda see what’s going on here.  They drew dune buggies, and buildings, and cars and boats and airplanes.

Davey enjoyed this.

I wish I would have gotten a close-up of his shirt.  I just got him that shirt.  Why did I buy white?  Not sure what I was thinking except I knew he’d like the lightning bolts.  It now bears evidence of every single thing he touched today.  Peanut butter, grape jelly, strawberries, juice, popsicles, just to name a few.

They finally got hot and went inside.

I stayed outside and did some knitting.

It was hot but not so bad under the shade of the backyard trees (and basketball hoop).

Kokopuff hung out with me although she gets nervous as soon as she senses the camera pointing at her.

And now Davey is in the bath.  Time to read stories and sing songs.

There are baby bunnies under our deck.  Every once in awhile they venture out into the backyard.  But then yesterday afternoon we went outside to the front porch to check out the thunderstorm which was brewing.

As we sat down on the front steps, we saw a baby bunny just a few feet from us.  Silly bunnies have very little fear.

As you can see, Davey and I decided to put out a couple of carrots for the bunny (Davey of course immediately named the bunny Winkie).

Apparently, the bunny was not acquainted with carrots.  I tried to tell Davey that he would sniff out them out and recognize them as bunny food, but Winkie seemed to prefer the blades of grass.

Davey told David,  “Daddy, he can mow for us!”

I think Davey might have been trying to convince the bunny to try the carrots here.

We got excited for a moment when the bunny appeared to be moving toward the carrot.

But he just hopped right on past them.

We figure he went home and described the carrots to his mama, and his mama explained to him that he had missed quite a treat.

After the bunny left, I took a few pictures of Davey making silly faces.

Then he demonstrated Superman flying.

Then he decided that he wanted David to come back outside with us, so he went and rang the doorbell.  Many times.

Davey was quite happy when Daddy came to the door.

Soon after that, the rain began coming down in buckets, and we went inside.   Perhaps we will be able to convince the baby bunnies to try the carrots on another day.

On Monday we walked over to our community festival to celebrate the 4th.

Davey immediately got in line to bounce in the bouncy houses.  He’d spent the day discussing how he wanted to ride the donkeys, but as soon as we got there, he forgot about that and went straight for the bouncy houses.

And he had such fun scrambling over this bouncy mountain.

Then despite the fact that he could do this every day of the week, he decided to play on the playground.  I think he enjoyed the jillions of kids there.  It looks like I dressed him to match the playground equipment.

Oh and there were cupcakes!  And like his daddy, he likes the icing best.  He gave David the cake part I think.

But the highlight of the evening  was his dancing.  There was a group playing called Funkiphino.  They were a lot of fun.  We’re going to have to go see them again as it turns out that Davey is a disco/funk loving kid.  He positioned himself at the front of the stage, and then he danced.

and he danced and danced and danced.   He was a blur.   (He also danced with the little girl in the black dress next to him.  He kept trying to strike up a conversation amidst their dancing.)

He even incorporated numerous somersaults into his dance.

It was one of my favorite moments ever – watching him dance.

We than walked back to the park by our house, and we all watched the fireworks. Davey sat by Uncle Michael.

He got a little sleepy.

Davey started swimming lessons yesterday.

There was abit of anxiety associated with this decision.  Davey had decided that he wanted to “wait until he gets older” (I’d suggested this as a possibility when I saw that he was worried about the lessons).

The main problem was that he did/does not want to put his head in the water.

So I went back and read the class description for the Guppies one more time.  The goals of the class are centered around getting comfortable in the water.  It looks like they will work on blowing bubbles and work up to an assisted backstroke.  It appears that there is likely no possibility of his face having to go into the water at least during this first week.

I explained this to him, and he got excited about going.

I was a little worried that I’d be wrong, so I was a little anxious too.

Fortunately, at least two days into lessons, there has been no suggestion of putting his face in the water.  It’s been all about getting comfortable in the water.

First he got acquainted with his awesome teacher.

Michael, Holly and I watched from the sidelines.  I sweated.  It was so warm and humid in there!  I have no pictures of me sweating thank goodness.

Davey held on tight to the board.

I could see him saying “Go back!  Go back!”  a few times.

He was so happy to return to safety (relative safety that is, I was nervous watching him sit on the edge of the pool).

They had to sit up really straight at one point.  I can’t remember exactly what they were getting ready to do, but I thought it was pretty cute.

At the end, Davey was happy and giving his teacher high fives.  High fives with Vigor!  It looked like he was trying to knock his poor teacher back into the water!

David took him back today and there was more getting comfortable in the water.  No sign of “face in the water” yet.  By the time it comes, hopefully Davey will be more ready!  We are proud of him!

Today Davey agreed to participate in a photo shoot.  This was to help out one of David’s students.

Davey was first photographed posing with his arms up.  Abit like Superman.

Then they began transforming him into Rock Star Davey.

Black Hoodie:

A little gel in the hair:

Gotta wear shades:

Strap on the guitar (There’s probably a much cooler way to say this – something maybe involving the word ax, but I better not push it).

He was ready to go.

He was ready to rock.

He had a good ole time.   He received the perfect compensation for a 3 year old.  M&Ms and a Thor action figure.

I was having a great time too as I’d never taken pictures in a room with the lights and everything all set up.  It was great fun.

Davey is having a good day all around.  His Uncle Michael and Aunt Holly got here last night, and Davey loves having them here.  He told Holly a little while ago, “This sure is a good day!”

It is!