The Further Adventures of Blynken and Nod!!!

Blynken and Nod are back for a visit- this time for a whole, entire week!

They were supposed to arrive last night, but their mama had car trouble, and we were expected next door where my aunt and uncle are visiting for a few days, so we couldn't go get them.

Today it rained all day, but there was no thunder and it was a steady, gentle downpour of rain, so, in keeping with my goal of giving them new experiences, we shocked the little boys by putting on some thrift shop clothes we bought for them and taking them out to splash in puddles and dance in the rain. I gardened some while others splashed and danced, still being a limpy gimpy and all.

Then we rinsed the mud off of them and put them in dry clothesfed them crackers, yogurt, and pickles for tea and tucked them up into my bed for naps.

We pulled out books for naptime reading, and bless my soul and be still my heart if five year old Blynken didn't remember The Tale of Peter Rabbit from his last visit two weeks ago. He insisted that he had to have that story and no other would do- the one about the one naughty little bunny and the three good little rabbits, he said, was the one he wanted most of all.

He's also been quite delighted with the Three Little Kittens, What Do You Say, Dear, the Millions of Cats.

This weekend we are going on a short road trip to a volleyball tournament and a museum, and I overhead his mother ask him on the phone if he wanted to go on a road trip with Tea-Tea (their nickname for me), and I could hear the glee and excitment in his voice as he asked her breathlessly, "For real?! I can for REAL?!"

It's so gratifying to the ego to be so important to small people.

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