Grandma Lucy's Here

We have been doing amazingly fun things during Grandma Lucy's visit. On one day, we went to Target especially for Nick while Xander watched his dad play Star Wars. Out of that visit, Nick got a couple pairs of monkey pajamas - yay! Grandma also tried to buy him a toy, but he said his version of "No, thanks" to every option offered him. Then she got to the food aisles. He said, "Yes, please!" to food.

Grandma Lucy also picked up a pair of Lego Star Wars pajamas for Xander, which he loooooooooved.

Later, she gave out birthday gifts. I got a few special things, including the new pages for Nick's 2nd-year scrapbook. Erik and I and the boys got a framed poster-size series of our holiday picture poses. Hilarious, but also touching. As a series, it's a pretty good representation of our family. Although Nick has now grown into cute toddler smiles. You know, this series:

Nick got a pretty big Winnie the Pooh Duplo set from Grandma. He has been loving it ever since. Little Lego Pooh and Piglet have to sit at the table to eat honey when Nick has breakfast, and they have to lay down and go to sleep when he goes to bed. He also got a Winnie the Pooh cookbook. Right up his alley!

Xander got an awesome Diary of A Castle book, and then he got to pick out Lego sets for an early birthday present! He got two Star Wars sets. I think Grandma Lucy's letting him pick them out in the store was a big part of the appeal. Not the biggest part, though. :)

On Monday, we went to the Austin Zoo. We saw a tiger, lionesses, macaws, wolves, wolf hybrids, lemurs, llamas, deer, emus, goats, pigs, a sheep, peacocks, etc. A peacock spread its tail feathers for us. Deer and goats and llamas ate feed from our hands. Tortoises crawled around and ate faster than I thought was possible for a tortoise. Almost all the animals were prowling, growling, or active. It was awesome. Mom paid for us all to ride the train - yippee! Afterward, she bought us all Wendy's (per Xander's request).

And she's still here for several more days. I just wanted to type up some of this stuff while I remembered the details.