Davey got a pterodactyl kite for Valentine’s Day, and today was the first chance we’d had to try it out.

We weren’t sure about the wind at first.

Kite flying preparation began.

Davey was instructed to hold onto the kite.  He was focused.  He was in the zone.

I helped a little as David was running out the kite.  Davey remained focused.

So we got the kite going, but the wind (or lack thereof) was making us have to work really hard.  David in particular.

Still runnin’.

Back to square 1.

We got it going again, and Davey took over the controls.

Davey ran.  He zigzagged.  He sprinted.

David and Davey worked together again for abit.

We decided there just wasn’t quite enough wind and that it was time to head back.  When we got back to the west side of our apartment though, the wind picked up again, and we went back out into the field.  This time, we had super duper kite flying success.

Davey even settled in for some comfy kite management.

Davey settled in with me for abit, and David took over the camera. (I figured there should be evidence that I was present.)

Oh geez.  Was the kite taking Davey?

But the kite didn’t take Davey.  Davey suddenly relinquished the kite to the wind.  David took off to retrieve it with Davey right behind him.

David managed to avoid the kite’s landing into the trees. Order was restored and Davey decided it was time to go play at the playground.

The kite survived and will see another day of flying.  Davey had great fun.  All in all, it was a very successful pterodactyl kite flying day.

I’ve never been that big of a Valentine’s Day person, but it is definitely fun with Davey.  In the last couple of days, he has come up to me several times to say “Happy Valentine’s Day Mommy”.  I do like that.

All I wanted for Valentine’s Day was a strawberry cake.  (or an excuse to make one I guess!)  I confess I used a mix for the cake, but the icing is homemade and so good.  (too good.)

Davey helped me mix it up.

I cut Davey a piece after it was finished.  “Mommy, the icin’ is delicious.”  (At least that was the part made with actual strawberries (even organic)!  He ate some of the icing and was pretty much done with it.

Davey and David made me a Valentine’s Day card.  I loved it.  I don’t have much craft stuff here in the apartment, so they really had to improvise.  They did great.

(He got a little cross-eyed in that photo trying to focus on something!)

David, Davey and I made a trek out to Morrison this morning to check out a couple of houses.  We found them on mtnhomes.com (mountain homes.)  That should have been our first clue.

We drove out into the forest.  We began climbing and switchbacking.  There were houses scattered all along the way.  We continued to climb.  We had begun to decide it was time to turn around when we finally found the house on a snow covered road way up the mountain.  David said, “I see aspens”. (We were getting high.)

The problem was that the driveway shot straight down the hill.  Had we gone down that driveway, we would have had to move in with the owners for a week or two and hope it didn’t snow anymore.  We decided that house was not for us.  The next house was on UP the mountain.  We started to move forward again.  But we couldn’t.  We began spinning.  So we went in reverse a couple of hundred yards back down the mountain until we could get good traction and turn around.

We got out of there.  Those are summer homes or homes that you don’t want to ever leave in the winter.   Lesson learned.

We have shifted gears once again and are thinking of suburbs abit north of here. (Broomfield, Lafayette and Lousville.)  It was fun though.  Davey kept asking if we were lost.  “I don’t think we should have come up here Mama.”  Davey was correct.

Then on the knitting side of things.  I have one fingerless glove completed.  It has short fingers, and it was pretty fun to make.  The fingers are a little fiddly, but it went so much nicer than my first attempt over a year ago.  (I made gloves that aren’t too great looking around the finger bottoms.)

But now I have to knit a flip top thing that turns the gloves into mittens.  Oh my gosh.  I have a problem with visualizing things when I have to rotate and flip and think how it will go.

I finally pulled out a sock.  I needed the foot to  act as a faux top.

Kinda like this:

This way I could fold the sock back to see just how it needs to attach.  I am still a little confused.  It’s a great puzzle for my rotationally challenged brain.

I will continue to work on it.

Davey had tumbling today, (he’s in the funny bug class) and I took a few pictures.  They are not the best pictures because I don’t go in with him.  I watch from behind the glass.

He’s running into class in this photo.  He goes from sitting happily in my lap to making a beeline to the mat, and he runs just as fast as he can go.  I think he has grown an inch or two in the last week.  His pants are suddenly too short for him.

Here he is working with Miss “Hevver”.  (He has a little trouble with the pronunciation of th. It’s cute to hear him say “Hevver”)  When he sees her, he runs to her as fast as he can go (there’s lots of running here) to give her a big  hug.  He loves Miss Heather.

Here he makes his way carefully across the balance beam.

They are learning to walk around in an organized fashion, and they make trains to do this. Notice Davey is right there with Miss Heather.

This picture is kind of blurry, but he’s helping to clean up after a game.  He gets right in there and just bounces and bounces, he’s so excited.

I have a great time knitting and watching him.   Today I worked on some fingerless gloves which have a mitten flap.  I’ve not made any before, so it will be fun to see how it goes.

I am also making some fingerless gloves with colorwork on them.  The colorwork = jellyfish.  If you are wondering how I became inspired to knit a jellyfish motif, it is because I have a friend who loves loves jellyfish.

Davey also wants a knitted object.  I am going to make him a pug out of some of the yarn leftover from David’s sweater.  I also have 4 pairs of socks in process.  I am getting ready to cast on for a hat.  But – that’s really about it I think.  Not so bad. Oh there’s a simple hat that I want to figure out how to knit.  I am making myself wait on that for abit.

I better get knittin’.

A post of little Davey things.

He played some computer games this morning.  Little gamer,  it’s not easy convincing him to give it up.  Luckily the power of distraction still works.  I took him on a silly hunt.  We were looking for his clothes in the fridge, etc.  That got him away from the computer without heartache.

We stopped at a convenience store on our way out.  Davey got some lemonade.  The ladies that worked at the store wanted to talk to him.  He was bashful.  One lady went outside.

“Mommy, the manager went outside.” Then,  “I never saw a girl smoking before.”    He was fascinated by this.

This afternoon we were driving home from school and the library.  We were listening to a cd.  I wanted to listen to the Glee “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” mash up.  He wanted to listen to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons: Spring”.  I had to let him win that one.

Tonight we read 5 books.  I am so glad he loves to read with us.

Every night he says,  “I’m firsty”.  So he has a little drink.

He likes to end the day with knock knock jokes that make absolutely no sense and always include the phrase:  “Aren’t you glad I didn’t say?”