The last couple of Fridays have been all about Adler. Last Friday, he packed his tools and P.J.s to spend the night to "fix" things with Papa. He brought along his "broke houses" which are his Tonka truck and front-end loader/grader (I believe he named these large toys himself after seeing the real equipment demolishing buildings while on an outing with his great-grandmother, Sophie). Larry and I can spend hours with him outdoors and we never tire of sharing his discovery of the things we take for granted. He delights in the ugliest rock, drooping flowers, and of course, any kind of bug! He plays with Gumby and Pokey and playdoh and bubbles. When its too late to play outside, we love winding down with a story book for the night or watching silly videos on the computer. Adler tries hard to avoid getting still - that can lead to sleep... and... we don't care! But, at some point, he goes down for the night.
Last Friday's adventure was a boat tour of the Houston Ship Channel. Adler ran, jumped, climbed, and played in the park area at the dock until time to board. He collected pine cones, lined them up, and counted them (I was secretly worried that we'd have to bring them home!) Time to board, Adler!! Just as we were boarding, he was mesmerised by a huge barge slowly passing in the channel that was loaded with scrap metal bound for the recycling dock. And, quite by coincidence, a train passing by just out of Adler's line of vision was blowing its whistle really loud! Adler turned to us and said "Papa, look, it's a choo-choo boat!" Larry and I laughed and laughed but Adler had such a serious look on his face! Needless to say, the tour was neat and Adler explored the entire boat, top to bottom, bow to stern, and then some! Finally, we placed a very excited boy back in our truck to leave (with an orange soda moustache) who talked about the boats, birds, and things we saw all the way home!
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