Fruit Juicing

During our winter sequestration, Dex also transformed all the fruit in the house into some delicious fruity juice.

French Pressing

During the cold snap, we chose to make coffee at home rather than venture outside to buy it.

Dexy enjoyed learning about the french press and helping to make the coffee for Mommy and Daddy.

Fifteen Below

We got slammed with about a foot of snow the day before the temps plummeted to about fifteen below zero without windchill.  We hunkered down in the house for a couple of days - just looking out the back window made us cold!

New PB&J Implement

Grandma and Grampy sent us a special implement for making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - it has a jelly scoop on one end and a peanut butter spreader on the other.  Dex enjoyed using it to make himself his own PB&J sandwich. 

The fatal flaw with the implement's design is that it doesn't matter which end you use first, you are going to get either jelly or peanut butter (whichever you used first) on your forearm when you use the other end second. At least Dexy did...

Twenty-Twenty

At his last doctor's visit, Dexter's pediatrician suggested that we get him an initial eye exam before kindergarten. Since Ben and I both needed to get eye exams, we found a local opthomologist who works with young children as well as adults and scheduled us all for eye exams. After some initial hesitation Dexter really enjoyed his first eye exam (at first, he thought the chair and equipment was a robot but after watching Daddy go up and down in the chair a few times, Dex got on board). Dexy got to look through 3D glasses, read really small letters on a far away wall, point a red laser around the room, and look into some funny implements that had blinking red and green lights.  Dex has 20/20 vision and his eyes look very healthy.  Poor Mommy now needs bifocals.

Solution for Shyness

As I was waiting outside Dexy's classroom to pick him up from school on Wednesday, I overheard him say to the girl he has described as his "quietest friend":

"Maybe if I came over to your house we might have so much fun you would forget about being so quiet." 

She didn't say anything back but she smiled at him.

Delayed Playdate Realized

We were able to reschedule Dexter's playdate with Tabitha and it was a smashing success.  Dex showed Tabitha his Leap Pad and how to play Mousetrap.

They both ate munchkins and made "music" in the basement. There were no issues until it was time to say goodbye - both Dex and Tabitha struggled with the transition.  More playdates means more opportunities to practice graceful good-byes.