Hanging around

We had to stay close to home this morning so the Verizon guy could come to hook up our TV for service through them. While we're hanging out here the kids have been playing pretty much all morning with toys that we got from friends that Chris has known since college. We've been so fortunate to have friends with older kids who give us their old stuff. I sorted clothes last night and it was like Christmas day - "look at that!, look at this one!" Our kids have always been well-supplied with hand-me-down toys and nice clothes. Our friends have good taste and their kids go to schools where they have to be well-dressed so we get some pretty nice stuff.

Anyway, last night I showed Dima a Leapster that at first he seemed really interested in and he was excited to use it this morning. After he played with it for a while he stopped using it and Josh picked it up and hasn't put it down since. He's been really good at figuring out how to do the games and he even figured out how to change his name in the list of players, but he changed it to JJSSJJJJJJJ. One of the games on this cassette - we got a few of them - involves moving little shapes around and he's already learned what a trapezoid is from this thing.

Now Dima' splaying with the huge aircraft carrier and doing a good job of playing make-believe with it. If I'd had to guess which toy which kid would pick I would have guessed wrong, who'da known??

Now that Josh has officially changed his own name (though I'm not sure how you'd pronounce that} going to do something I've been thinking about for while.


I JJSSJJJJJJJ BY TYPING MY NAME BELOW DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO REMEMBER ALL THE TIMES MY MOM THREW BALLS OF EVERY SORT OUT IN OUR BACK YARD, BATTED, PLAYED BADMINTON AND VOLLEYBALL AS WELL AS HAULED MY BUTT TO SKATING AND SWIMMING LESSONS TO HELP MAKE ME A BETTER ATHLETE AND PERSON. IN RECOGNITION OF HER EFFORTS I WILL GIVE HER AT LEAST A 10% FIRST-COACH FEE FROM MY PROFESSIONAL EARNINGS FOR EVER AND EVER, AMEN. ("OK, Josh, by typing here you're saying Thank you Mama") "Okay" JJSSJJJJJJJ


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