Out and about

Last week we got to see our friend Frances in Oberlin Ohio. She was lives in Texas now, but had a professional conference in Oberlin. We enjoyed having lunch with her. Well, mostly we enjoyed it. Liam was very frustrated because we wouldn't let him play with the salt and pepper shakers which were shaped like taxi cabs.


Afterward we took a walk in a nearby park. Liam walked round and round this planter. He would have been content to keep going but we were getting warm in the sun and I was getting worried about the bees which might not be as friendly as story books make them out to be.

On Monday we visited Grandma or "GG" in Lima. Liam and I went since Allen was in the middle of a three night "observing run" - he was running a telescope from his office. The telescope is actually in Arizona, but thanks to the internet he didn't actually have to go. Anyways, we had fun visiting with GG and Uncle John. Liam remembered that GG has blocks and he played with them and her "little houses" quite a bit. He also thought it was great fun to roll the container the blocks are stored in to us as we were sitting in the living room. He took a spill headfirst off a kitchen chair. It was pretty traumatic for all of us and he ended up with a bruise. But when we got home he said he had "fun" rolling the block container and didn't mention the fall. He's been climbing up on things just as much as ever since then - maybe even more.


In fact, the other day he picked up his ride-on car and put it on the ottoman. Then he climbed up on the ottoman and sat down on the car exclaiming, "Better!" Allen didn't think it was better since the wheels of the car were about to slip off on one side.

He's also been running more lately, which is good for his development, but can have negative consequences. Today he got his first band-aid. He and I were playing a "get you" game and he ran toward a wall and tripped. He caught the corner of a heating/cooling register with his forehead and clipped another part with his hand - removing a layer of skin. He recovered from this amazingly fast. After a brief application of an ice pack he said he was "happy."

The point of this picture is that it shows Liam's first band-aid. But he's more interested in the fact that it shows the truck on his shirt.