what do you know?

We had a wonderful day trip to Dothan today to see Granny and Aunt Louise and Uncle George and Uncle Kim and Aunt Robin. Dennis happily announced "we are a family!" to all that were gathered and then said "where's my cousins?". Dennis was ecstatic when Mommy finally got Granny's permission to open the Magic Toy Cabinet and he played with a Playskool Take Apart Truck and two vintage Fisher Price Little People houses, some little people, a whole village with police station, theater, garage, fire station, etc, and a Little People Children's Hospital. There are more things in the closet that I figure I'll clean up and get ready for him next time. Granny had the Take Apart Truck waiting for him and some blocks and Tinker Toys out as well, so he played happily for HOURS with toys he'd never laid eyes on before. It was difficult to get him to leave the toys there! This was fun for me to watch because these are the toys that Michael and I loved to play with when we went to visit Granny. They are all still around.

The most fun that I had today came from my conversations with Dennis. We are making sure he knows his parents' names. He knows my full name and his full name, and I asked him what his Daddy's name is and he replied "No Mitchell". On the way home from Dothan, we were talking about geography and asked him where Caedmon and Mirella live, and he said "they live in Washington" and we praised him, of course. I asked him "where do we live, Dennis" and he thought about it for a minute and then said "Wal-Mart". We all had a big laugh over that. And there's another cute thing he said a couple of days ago--I was driving him around and he removed his shoes and socks and when we got to where we were going (incidentally, this was Wal-Mart), I noticed he was barefoot. I asked him why he had taken off his shoes and socks and he said "because my toes were sad; my toes are happy now". He's definitely Gran's grandson.