The Little Things

When you hang around Christopher for any length of time, you can't help but start to notice the little things in life. Such little things are, in fact, big things when you are but 20 months old. Yesterday afternoon, we spent over an hour looking at cracks in the sidewalk, dandelions in the grass, and the gates that go down when a train is approaching. We also found just about every stop sign in Johnson County as well as each little stream that flows along the trail by our house. As a bonus, we were able to watch four freight trains pass within the hour we were there!

This morning we were among the first people to get to Deanna Rose and Chris felt like he had the whole place to himself. We saw chickens this time, although CJ was a little shocked when one of them pecked at his hand. You can imagine that we visited the goats and we were the only kids there... besides the goats of course! The peacock was a big hit this time as we had just read "Polar Bear Polar Bear" and saw a peacock in that book. We even ran into Tristan as we were leaving the farm... Christopher also busted out some dance moves this morning while he was playing with his trains:

He's pretty coordinated to be able to dance like that and play trains at the same time!