A growing friendship and grandparents visit!

Another great weekend...our weeks blaze by so fast these days that we only have time to reflect on things over the weekend. But to recap on this past week....Alder cut two new teeth. We thought we were done for awhile since the four molars are in, but he is still slobbering so much that we decided to investigate and found that he has two upper canines poking through!

So Alder and Tsuga are becoming quite close. Alder is annoying him less and less and actually engaging him with sticks and toys in an appropriate way. We have to certainly give Tsuga most of the credit though as his tolerance of Alder has increased dramatically and he doesn't seem to mind being stepped/fallen on while trying to relax. There are lots of kisses and hugs between these two lately and in general some true camaraderie. Tsuga is especially gentle with Alder when playing tug of war with sticks...

We had fun raking leaves today. The temperature dropped and it feels like winter...booooo!
Alder periodically laid back in the leaves and looked up to admire the increasingly naked trees!

Saturday was much warmer and Grammy and Pa Pa were here! We all walked down to the wonderful playground in our neighborhood (at the catholic school) and watched as Alder climbed, slid, ran, and pulled dad into stealing another kid's ball so he could learn to kick it.


Thanks for coming to visit Grammy and Pa Pa. We look forward to seeing you at T-giving very soon!