The new train set, featuring the tractor car and dump truck car (on the track below), the new current favorites! That means they get to be carried everywhere, have a front row seat by the plate when eating, and sleep next to Theodore’s pillow (if not his hot little hands themselves). Bonus: they can be used as disciplinary tools!
Sorry, Brownie and Windy, the prior favorites, your time was sweet but ephemeral.
ps: yep, that’s our house on the chalkboard, courtesy T & KK.

He’s been closing his eyes when he swings. Seems to make him smile even more.

We played and shoveled snow for about an hour and half — and this was on a weekday morning. Such is the power of six inches of fresh wet snow. (The sled is probably approaching 80-85 years old.)

We were looking at the newspaper, and he spelled the letters of the biggest headline, then asked “What does that say?” I told him, and then he glanced down to the second biggest headline on the page. Pointing at each word, he said, “That say, ‘Don’t Pick Up Glass’.”
