Christmas in June

Here are the promised photos from Christmas and a couple from our low key New Year's Eve.

Some of the great things Kai has said lately...

At dinner, repeating Jake's grandpa:

"Same difference."

In the empty barn at Jake's grandparents' farm:

"The cows escaped!"

To Jake's grandma regarding the cows:

"You stole their milk and then they escaped."

- He was very insistent about this. Very.

Inspecting a button at the yarn store:

"This is a dragon tail."

- I was pretty sure it was a leaf. I was wrong because it is definitely a dragon's tale.

Waking up with a summer cold:

"Mama, I'm too icky."

And now for a tale from my blogging hiatus:

Kai and I stopped in the yarn store near our house. The shop worker and I set him up with a tray of toys. I was obsessing over which gray yarn to choose for a sweater for Kai and buttons for some nearly finished projects. Kai went into the bathroom and I followed but did not get there soon enough. He had shut and locked the door. None of my usual tactics worked to lure him out. The shop worker declaring that she was going to have to call the firemen to remove the door did not lure him out. I am actually certain that this gave him incentive to stay inside. There was quite a lot of noise coming from behind the door and I realized I was not talking him out. I took a deep breath and told the shop worker that I was going to ignore the situation and she agreed that it was probably best assuring me nothing could be harmed in the bathroom. I was pretty sure that Kai, being a three year old boy, could probably find a way, but had faith that he would tire of hanging out alone. More noise, many more minutes passed. Finally the door opens. Kai is on the other side with a plunger in one hand and a toilet brush in the other. He says, "I am just in here; with my weapons."

A word from Kai:

nnnnnnnnnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmnmmmmnnmnmnmnmnm mnmmnmmnmnmnnmm

Holiday Weekend at Lake

We headed up to the family cabin for the third year. Three Memorial Days. We have lived in Wisconsin as a family for three Memorial Days. This photo is actually from the first because we didn't manage to take even one photo. Not one. We were beyond occupied with......

:: catching up with friends and family ::

:: canoeing : napping : mama knitting : daddy fishing ::

:: inch worm watching : swimming : soaking up sunshine ::

:: movie watching : cabin furniture rearranging ::

:: turtle catching : eagle spying : walk taking ::

:: candy store visiting : pancake eating ::

We will be returning for an extended visit in July and part of the visit will be with my sister, niece and nephew. I cannot wait for Kai to have time to play with his cousins. He asks about them a lot and sometimes asks if we are going to see them when we are headed out of the house. I will remember to break out the camera from time to time while we are there. In the meantime...would you believe that Kai was this tiny our first Memorial Day weekend trip to the cabin:

AH! I just remembered that something seriously cool happened while we were there. Aside from the 90 degree weather....Kai treaded water. Like it was no big deal, just hands and legs moving keeping his little self afloat for a bit.