African Cowboy

Akins loves cowboy boots! He insisted on wearing his cowboy boots to school today and so it was cowboy up time!

Howdy Partner!

Hey even the toughest Cowboy has to ride his cycle instead of the horse sometimes...right?

I think we will go on the road with his two-stepping African Cowboy act! What'd ya' think?

Family Week at Daycare... I Have TWO Mommies - oh boy!

So, Lorea takes Akins to school this morning and one of the teachers comes to her and says "can I talk to you for a minute". Lorea is like "sure". She proceeds to nervously tell Lorea that this is family week at the Day Care and so it is the week in which all the kids talk/tell about their families and the Day Care helps them understand their family dynamics and the differences in others. SOOOOO..... she said "well Akins told us yesterday he has two Mommies"! She said they proceeded to ask him what his Mommies names were and he said Lorea and then she said what do other people call your other Mommy and then finally said Valerie and he said "yeah". We haven't spent much time on my given name it is just Mommy to him. She said that basically they had already been wondering - CLUE # 1 Lorea usually drops him off, and I usually pick him up as now that we are settled in this has been working well with our schedules. CLUE # 2 no matter which of us is there he calls us Mommy. Then she proceeded to ask what we prefer to be called and explained that they wanted to be sure that they did not confuse him as they were helping him understand his family and how it is differnt then others. Some familes have Mommy and Daddy, some just have one etc. I was not sure where this was going as Lorea was recounting the story. BIG SIGH....

Hey Batter Batter!

We could quite possibly have another "Louisville Slugger" in the making!

Keep your eye on the ball!

Wind up!

Swing!

Hey...what the?????

I Beat By You!

Akins has some really funny sayings. The above being one of them. This one has a special purpose that we find quite helpful. It started off during dinner when he would get distracted and start playing around rather than eating. We figured out that he never wants to be the last one with food on his plate (well except that he wants all of the food on his plate - a topic for a differnt day). So, he would say "I beat by you". Meaning I will finish before you, or I will beat you. Now, that we understand the importance we are finding it really handy in speeding up the eating process when it slows down to a lull, and for that matter speeding up lots of processes, like getting dressed in the morning or getting into the car or well, just about anything that might normally take hours to get around to finishing! So, we now all play "I beat by you" and of course always let the little man win. So far he has not caught on and for the most part we get places on time!

A breakfast send off to Uncle Del and Aunt Sondie

As if we had not already eaten far too much this past week while Uncle Del and Aunt Sondie were visiting we decided to end the visit with breakfast before saying "see you later". We don't say good-byes they tend to be far to stressful for Akins. "See you later" seems to work fine most of the time and it worked this time too! But before we said our farewells we had a few more priceless moments that must be shared. Like the fact that you are NEVER too old to swing or play baseball - even if you are 75! Here's proof!