outside!

Didn't want to nap today, not at all! We gave up on the morning nap and he slept a little in the car on the way to the lake. He didn't want to eat lunch either and rejected the green beans that David cooked for him. Little stinker! After he batted away the green beans and cup of water three times, we put him down for a nap in his pod. He didn't nap well--he kept fussing and then going back to sleep. When Gran got down to the lake today, she couldn't wait to play with him, but he was napping. He finally woke up after an hour, and we let him run around a bit and play with his toys. This was highly entertaining.

First, Gran set up his Bring-Along Thomas playset (not to be confused with Take Along Thomas, which he also has...), and she would set up the bridge and wind up the train, and when it got around the track to the bridge, she would find that the bridge was out (and in Dennis's mouth). He would dismantle as quickly as she would set up, and I was entertained by just watching them. Then she helped him open his box of Winnie the Pooh books for him to take out the books. Two of the books dropped onto his foot. He didn't react until he looked down and saw books on his foot, and then he tried a cry or two, but we were laughing already so he stopped. Couldn't have hurt him at all the way they fell. He said "Pooh" today while pointing to Winnie the Pooh on his book. And when I asked him where the giraffes were in his Noah's ark set, he picked up the giraffes and said some form of a word that began with 'g'.

Like his Mommy, he is fascinated by storms. The wind picked up and blew a thunderstorm in, and he wanted to go out on the screened porch and watch. He tugged on my pant leg and insisted "out" and "side" (though he didn't say "outside" as one word). He pointed, and made motions of opening the door and said "up" so I'd pick him up. We went out and he pointed out the boat and the trees and said their names, and then he stared in wonder at the windchimes blowing crazily and making much music in the high winds. He wanted to leave the porch and actually go out in the weather, but I didn't want to, so we didn't. He did his best to convince me, pointing to the door and insisting "SIDE!!!". Instead I made him go back inside, and he didn't like that too much. We didn't stay at the lake but a few minutes after that, then drove home in the worst weather I've driven through in a long time. But we are all here safely, all in bed, and two of us are sleeping (one is typing).