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dragonlady7At my parents' house on dial-up-- can't read the f-list, stealing moments here. Things are awesome. I left a lot undone in Buffalo so I apologize to anyone who was waiting on anything from me. Had to go.
Nephew is ridiculously adorable. He is running, climbing, jumping, laughing, and making a lot of speech-like noises, but not talking-- rather resolutely. He understands sophisticated sentences to an alarming degree, but only says "Aahh!" or "Ungh!" or "Ack!", and rarely "Meow!" and "woof!" and "moo!" when the spirit, and considerable Mom prompting, moves him.
He loves trains and tractors. Today we took him to the farm where Dad works intermittently, to see big tractors. As it poured all day, the farmer and his workers were in the big shed, doing maintenance-- an oil change on a tractor-trailer, as it happened, but there was also a small tractor in for maintenance. Baby sat in the seat and turned the wheel, and the farmer started the tractor up, and it chugged excitingly away. Then Baby picked up the screw driver and walked to each of the tractor's four wheels and stuck the screw driver into the holes of the rim, apparently "fixing" it. The farmer, very kindly, thanked him, and prevented him from falling headfirst into the pan of exhausted oil from the tractor trailer-- it takes 15 gallons of oil, for the record.
Baby was rather too intimidated to sit up in the tractor trailer's driver's seat, but Dad went in and looked at it, as he was interested.
Expecting a whole lot of people on Saturday. Rain or shine; we have tarps and shade flys to set up , and are prepared, except that the new parking area will be muddy, and the improved but old parking area inaccessible if it's too wet. Oh well. Dad and Baby Sister's Husband were out with shovels and pickaxes when I arrived Weds., improving the old parking area out by the barn. It hasn't held up well to the nearly an inch of rain we've had here.
Made margaritas. Am honing my recipe. It's a work in progress. Tonight's were pretty good. Gotta work up a good mojito recipe for this weekend. Already made the mint syrup. We'll see.
Baby needs to go Jeeping tomorrow. :)
Nephew is ridiculously adorable. He is running, climbing, jumping, laughing, and making a lot of speech-like noises, but not talking-- rather resolutely. He understands sophisticated sentences to an alarming degree, but only says "Aahh!" or "Ungh!" or "Ack!", and rarely "Meow!" and "woof!" and "moo!" when the spirit, and considerable Mom prompting, moves him.
He loves trains and tractors. Today we took him to the farm where Dad works intermittently, to see big tractors. As it poured all day, the farmer and his workers were in the big shed, doing maintenance-- an oil change on a tractor-trailer, as it happened, but there was also a small tractor in for maintenance. Baby sat in the seat and turned the wheel, and the farmer started the tractor up, and it chugged excitingly away. Then Baby picked up the screw driver and walked to each of the tractor's four wheels and stuck the screw driver into the holes of the rim, apparently "fixing" it. The farmer, very kindly, thanked him, and prevented him from falling headfirst into the pan of exhausted oil from the tractor trailer-- it takes 15 gallons of oil, for the record.
Baby was rather too intimidated to sit up in the tractor trailer's driver's seat, but Dad went in and looked at it, as he was interested.
Expecting a whole lot of people on Saturday. Rain or shine; we have tarps and shade flys to set up , and are prepared, except that the new parking area will be muddy, and the improved but old parking area inaccessible if it's too wet. Oh well. Dad and Baby Sister's Husband were out with shovels and pickaxes when I arrived Weds., improving the old parking area out by the barn. It hasn't held up well to the nearly an inch of rain we've had here.
Made margaritas. Am honing my recipe. It's a work in progress. Tonight's were pretty good. Gotta work up a good mojito recipe for this weekend. Already made the mint syrup. We'll see.
Baby needs to go Jeeping tomorrow. :)
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Date: 2009-06-19 04:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-19 05:18 pm (UTC)I am so happy to hear how well baby nephew is doing. I wouldn't worry about the talking. Mine is on a similar track, except her favorites are 'ahhchoo' and 'duh'. They will talk soon enough.