Using a map

Alex is using a maze from a halloween activity book to help us get to the store! He's calling out turns and landmarks from the back seat!

Count Alexander

Another Trader Joe's Rally

Hi All,
Please join me in telling Trader Joe's that we need a branch in the Kansas City metro area.  Please take just a few seconds to fill out their location request form online.  You can use zip code 66061 (Olathe).

Whole Foods has the market cornered for health and gourmet foods and it's just not cool.  Not that I have anything against Whole Foods, just that they should have some healthy (ha, ha... get it, healthy) competition.

Thanks again!
Tracy

New Books!!

Thanks for my new books Grandma Yoder! I did a lot of reading, all by
myself - I especially liked the big Disney book. I already knew some
of those stories! And I've already painted 2 pages from the paint
with water Pooh book.

Daddy said that he's never even seen the Golden Book encyclopedia, he
and Mommy were very excited about those books. I thought they made a
great mountain for my cars to drive on! The pictures were neat too.
I made Mommy read 2 whole books to me just because they had neat
things on the covers.

Thanks again! We are having lots of fun with our new books.

Alex

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Animal Crackers

I always pack a little snack for Alex, for our drive home from school.  It holds him over until dinner.  Today, it was animal crackers.  Winnie the Pooh ones, in a big bucket from Costco.  Evidently, we're getting toward the end because I hear a distressed voice from the back seat exclaim

His feet!!

What about his feet? 

His feet are missin'. 

Missing? (Surely enough, he was holding only the feet of one character...)

You must have eaten the rest of him! 

Oh...

I will eat his feet, he can stick himself back together in my tummy.


Hooray for 3 year old logic!

Look Mommy I'm an oval!

Alex was having a lot of fun playing with his fun-house mirror reflection in the tub faucet!

Who do you know...

...with a movie stub, a bean, and a half-dozen pennies in his pocket? 

You guessed right!  Our little man.

We went to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs as a treat from a friend.  It was Alex's 1st movie!  We had fun, though we're pretty sure he liked the popcorn that was bigger than his head, and his own seat, more than the actual movie... It kinda wore him out.  But he was really good so we'll have to do it again, maybe with a less intricate plot. (our recommendation is to redbox the movie when it's released, not that it was bad, it just wasn't great).  Oh well.  The experience sure was fun!!

So, back to the pockets:
The pennies, I knew about.  I have NO IDEA how he got a bean in his pocket.