Franks and Beans

Colors

Dexter likes to color with crayons. He also likes to take his crayons out of their bucket one-by-one and put them back in one-by-one. He looks to me to tell him the color of each crayon. The first time we played this game I said, "brown," and Dexter started taking it to the bridge (see previous post if you don't know what that means). It took me a minute to understand why he was doing that!

James Brown

Shape Sorting

Dexter is mastering the skill and is very proud of himself (as are we).

The Welcoming Committee

After driving for hours on a four-lane highway that turned into a two-lane highway that turned into a one-lane highway, we took the turn to Great Grandma and Great Gunker's farm at the big house on the hill. As the one-lane road turned into a dirt path, we were greeted by a hyper black lab who darted out in front of the car causing me to stop for fear of running him over. He was barking like mad, jumping up on the driver's side window, and circling in front of the car. I could see a woman yelling at him from the farmhouse in the field and imagined her screaming, "Quit frightening the city folk!" Whatever she said, that dog ran back to her and we made it to Great Grandma and Great Gunker's house without incident.

Summing It Up

Ben and I couldn't resist buying this t-shirt for Dexy at the Farm and Home. "Corn Fed and still hungry" really summed it up.

Extended Family

I'm not very good at geneological terms but I think these are Dexter's Great Aunt Joanie (Ben's mom's sister) and Great Uncle Gene (Ben's mom's sister's husband) and Great Aunt Patti (Ben's Dad's sister). Whatever the term, these wonderful people are family and they are part of Dexter's caring community of loving adults.

Thanks so much, Patti, for watching My Bologna while we enjoyed the Best Buffet (too bad My Bologna couldn't go - he would have loved it!).