Fun with CJ

When you spend the day with Christopher, you cannot help but enjoy yourself! We started the day with a beautiful walk with Kasey through the neighborhood. This was followed by a trip to yet another one of Johnson County's fabulous community centers to see a storyteller named Priscilla Howe. We met up with some of the moms from my mother's group and listened to some stories, watched some puppets and sang a few songs. Christopher was especially happy when we sang "5 Little Monkeys!" Then this afternoon, we spent over an hour and a half at the trail near our house and boy was there a lot to see today! First of all, we saw five trains. You can imagine Christopher's excitement from this fact alone. More than the trains, CJ is fascinated by the gates that stop the cars when the trains go by. He will talk about these gates whether we are near them or not and will say "gate...down, down, down" while moving his hand down and do the reverse for up. Then he will open and close his hands while saying "flash" (talking about the flashing red lights). I'll try to get that on tape because it's really funny. Anyway, after playing on the slide a bit, we walked through a tunnel and over a bridge to the big pond where we saw white ducks, a blue heron, and many geese. We even saw two geese that had babies! They were so cute and Chris was talking to them saying "honk, honk" and laughing. Then he said "mack, mack" to the ducks (his version of "quack, quack"). On our way back to the car, Chris said hi to at least 6 people walking and riding their bikes. He also tried to join a nice man for a jog. We stopped to check out the stream before returning to our car to head home. Then, when we finished dinner later, Christopher took his little watering can and helped me water all my flowers. This might be the first year I don't kill my flowers because little man will not let me forget to water them for a minute! Anyway, here is a little clip of CJ watching one of the trains go by. It's not very exciting but you can see the intensity with which he watches the train and the gate. Enjoy!

PS- We should take a video of Chris watching this video because he loves it and just says "ding, ding, ding" over and over. (He also loves the sound of the gate!)