We got home from our trip to Franklin Friday
night. About 20 minutes from home Lex started crying and saying
“Does your butt hurt?” (His statements are usually in the form
of a question these days) I felt bad for him, but I wasn’t
about to pull over when we were just 20 minutes from home. He
cried and fussed until we came to a train crossing and had to
stop for a train to cross :) That made him happy. It was a
really long train too!

On Saturday,
Alan’s parents came to visit. Unfortunately their truck broke
down on the way here. Alan went to help get it to the dealer
and they ended up taking our Saturn home until the dealer can
fix their truck. We finished the day with a lovely visit and
yummy dinner. We also got a visit from a neighbor up the
street. He came with a basket filled with goodies from his
garden. He left a whole bunch of greens and herbs and other
stuff and (I’ll confess) I had to have Alan’s mom give me a
little help on what to do with it all. Glad she was around! Lex
had picked a big tomato from our garden and was eating it like
an apple when the neighbor stopped by. He gave Lex a purple
pepper and Lex put the tomato down and bit right into the
pepper instead :) He’s so funny! Glad he’s eating his veggies
though!! The 3rd picture down is him biting into the pepper and
the 4th picture shows his reaction, and Eve’s finger. She is
VERY grabby these days and was trying to “help” me with the
camera. She has lightening fast hands now and nothing is safe
within her short little reach :)

Today
was a fun filled day of grocery shopping (the bill was huge,
but then I realized that I haven’t been shopping in 2 weeks, so
I guess it was ok), working, and cooking a yummy lasagne dinner
(I even made one to freeze for later!). I ended today (so far)
with a short fall down the stairs. I had Eve in one arm and
stuff in the other and I slipped on one of the bottom-ish
steps. Luckily I fell on my non-Eve arm and just scraped it
against the bottom newel post. We are all fine, I’m a little
sore and probably bruised and Eve thought it was a fun little
ride :)

Tomorrow we are going to MA to
visit Julie for the day. Hopefully we can get in a little
shopping at the big box stores they don’t have ’round these
parts. Maybe we’ll slow down on Tuesday. Or maybe we’ll have
someone over for a playdate. Time will tell :)

For now I’m going to go read the newspaper
(I’m only a week behind!) and wait for Alan to come watch some
3rd Rock with me :)