Thomas and I visited a new park, about 10 minutes down the road from us. The park is split into two fenced-off sections, and one has a climbing frame for 5 to 12-year olds shaded by huge live oak trees covered in Spanish moss and is right on the shore of a big lake with a roped-off swimming section. We could even stay until 11am (wow! so late!) before it got too hot, and there were only a few small spiders under all those trees, not like the monsters up in Gainesville at Utaka and Shauna's old place. Even I felt comfortable moving them from the slide. The park is right across the road from a new house for which we're putting in an offer! It's got four bedrooms and two really big rooms for playrooms or TV, and a lovely small yard that is completely fenced in and private. And the kitchen is gorgeous. I'm excited, and we're going to do inspections, talk to a lender and fill out the paperwork and do all the stuff that needs to be done for this enormous decision!
Matthew comes home soon, and Thomas has added "de" ("red") and an elaborate back-and-forth of his hand along with a hissing sound for "white" to his vocabulary (where did that one come from??). Today I started singing "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" while I was making breakfast, and he made almost all the motions that go with it! It's nice to see him do that spontaneously because he never does that sort of thing at Toddler Time at the Library when we sing the song! And usually when I start singing it, he shakes his head and says "nooooo" and pumps his fists up and down to request his favorite, "The Wheels on the Bus." He's been off the Itsy Bitsy Spider for quite some time, ever since he learned the sign "all done!"
Thomas and Ellis at Seven Sisters Coffeehouse in the playroom.
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