One Busy Boy

Jeremiah is certainly a busy boy. He's full of energy and recently very full of questions. Some of the interesting highlights lately have been asking why our female cat has girl parts, asking his cousin Kelley why men and boys have peepers, and asking what the complete strangers names are. These are only a sampling of the deluge of questions we get these days. We do our best to address his curiosity.

He's also been excited to "make" us food and drinks. We often get to enjoy pie and coffee. The coffee comes with a little song, "Coffee, Coffee, Sugar, Sugar." It's a pretty good little tune.

We're finding challenges in our nightly bedtime routine recently and he's learning the hard way what it is like to lose privileges. We know the transitions of the move have been rough on him but our patience can only go so far.

He's had the chance to take in several activities in the past couple of weekends, making his days with us busy. We note that he seems to behave better when we are out and about doing things, as this is really what his days were like before the move.

Last weekend, we went to central IL for the weekend. We met friends for a couple meals, attended the state fair and visited our old church. At the state fair, we enjoyed games at the dairy barn, seeing the "cow made of butter" as Jeremiah will tell you, visiting the barns, and riding the big slide!

This weekend started with a trip to a minor league baseball game with our friends Jane and Eric. We appreciate them sharing their tickets with us. Jeremiah was very good, watching the game, eating an entire hot dog, and sitting on mom's lap. The fireworks that followed the game were apparently "scary" but he was willing to watch them and comment on the colors with my hand over his ears. On Saturday he accompanied me to a neighbor's house for a coffee social session. He used very good manors, even asking the hostess for some more milk without even consulting me. That evening we headed up for a celebration at the historic county jail, where they were offering rides in an old jailer's wagon pulled by horses.He enjoyed the ride and had many questions about it all. We decided a trip to Papa's farm was in order today so we loaded up and headed to Elizabeth. Jeremiah helped Kelley and Devin comb their calves and participated in a hot game of croquet with Mama.

We topped off the weekend by picking up pizza at one of our favorite places in Savanna and curling up to play with baby to watch Ice Road Truckers.