On Thursday, Oma met us at the Please Touch Museum, and Shawn and Jonathan had a blast. The neat thing about the museum is that kids played completely organically: without any adult interference. They cooperated across age, gender, race, etc to get things done, and it was really something to observe. Lesson: adults are the ones who get in the way; let kids play! He's also a great pretender! We all observed him having tea parties with a Madhatter, watering the garden vegetables, and shopping in the grocery store, all with very realistic, yet pretend, stories.
Thursday night was Grandpapa's 80th birthday surprise party. What a great time. Jonathan actually wore his bow tie the entire night. What a handsome fellow. Elise was charming as ever and floated around the room with various friends/family of Grandpapa's. Oma asked Jonathan if he'd share his cranberry juice, so he told her to "get your own cranberry juice at the bar, Oma."
On Friday, we had breakfast at the Union League with Grandpapa and then headed back into New Jersey to visit Cheryl Lynn and her family. Bud has now been christened Uncle Bug; I was explaining to Jonathan where we were going, but he heard me say we were visiting Uncle Bug instead of Uncle Bud. We had a wonderful visit. Her three boys were absolutely incredible with Jonathan. He even went into the pond and the "fake beach" with them (with a life vest on and me melting down). There were a lot of naked bums at the pond too!
And, today, for the first time, I could actually SEE a tooth popping through!!! She's broken gums! It's her bottom right (as you look at her).
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