Saturday Cuteness

I discovered a great Mommy tip this morning. I baked homemade biscuits (thanks again, Uncle Denny for that recipe you gave me all those years ago) for our breakfast and set the table with an assortment of honey and jellies. While Dennis was eating his biscuit and blueberry applesauce, he noticed that OUR biscuits had jelly on them. It's cherry jelly and not his favorite, so I didn't think he'd go for that, but he really wanted his biscuit to be like ours. Did you know that blueberry applesauce spread on a biscuit looks JUST LIKE JELLY and is so much better for you? He happily ate most of what was on his plate after I smeared the biscuit pieces with applesauce.

We spent some of our afternoon at Ace Hardware, and Dennis visited with his fan club members again. Since the store is decorated for Halloween, Dennis ran to and fro at top speed, running to point out each individual "po" (pumpkin) to us. He took a ride on a garden cart, climbed into some cabinets, played with a hanging toilet seat display... He had a great time. Incidentally, while he was opening and closing the toilet seats, he was saying "ba boo" (peek-a-boo) each time. He ran full speed from the back of the building to the front a number of times, giggling while he did it. It was as good as an amusement park!

Tonight he ran around at his Grandma's house, playing with the ride-on car there and playing in the toy closet. He noticed a baby on television and stood right in front of the tv, pointing and saying "baby" every time the commercial showed the baby again. Just before we went over to Grandma's, Dennis helped me walk around the park, and we went 2 miles and burned 400 calories, some handy info I learned from my Nike + iPod gadget. That is one cheap workout tool that's really worth it! Having feedback helps motivate me so much.

We played with his cars today and he finally located all the Chevron cars that we had 'hidden' on his top shelf. He would walk over and ask me for a car until I had gotten them all down, and then we both rolled them all over the room and made the appropriate car noises. He is so much fun to play with! We wrestled after that, and he pinned me to the floor and stood on my stomach, laughing down at me while the bruises formed... All day long he was all smiles and giggles and cuteness. Bedtime came much too soon.