Visiting Elaine and Bernard

This morning, while Wayne was at school, Cole, Heather, and I headed over to Elaine's (Wes's aunt, his father's sister) house for a little visit. She was tickled pink to see Cole in his Spiderman costume.




Cole was fascinated with her electric organ. He spent most of the visit playing "music" for us. He would say, "This is what is sounds like when Spiderman shoots his web," and he would press the appropriate key. Then he would say, "And this is what it sounds like when he catches the bad guy," and he would press a low tone key. "And this is what it sounds like when..." and so on.




It was a rather noisy, musical visit.


Heather explores a bucket of toys.

Bernard seemed to be in pretty good spirits. He was puttering around outside in the backyard.
Elaine sent us home with homemade raspberry pie and a fresh package of Koffee Kup crullers.

Back in April, Cole got a lot of cards in the mail for his birthday. Now, whenever we go out to get the mail, he wonders if there will be anything for him. Usually there is not. Today, however, was his lucky day. Something did come for him. It came from his cousin Anna, over in England. It was a postcard with a picture of the sinking Titanic on the front. On the back she had drawn a very accurate, miniature map of the Titanic's course from Ireland to England and part way across the Atlantic, ending with an X at the site of the sinking. Cole was beside himself with happiness, first at getting something in the mail, and second that it had anything to do with the Titanic. Thank you Anna.

Speaking of Titanic (I'm sorry, someday this will pass), The other night I was trying to get dinner ready while Cole was drawing and coloring at the table. I kept telling him that he had to finish up so we could set the table. He kept saying, "In a minute. I have to finish."

I was getting frustrated and finally asked, "What are you drawing that's so important?"

He said, "I'm drawing a cross-section diagram of two bilge keels."

huh?

He had just finished wathcing his DVD documantary made by the History channel about these scientist and historians who go down in a submarine to study the wreckage. I knew that he knew what bilge keels were because he had made me look it up a few days ago. (They're long fin-like strips of metal along the bottom of each side of the ship to help prevent it from rolling too much side to side in rough waters) but I had to ask, "What's a cross section diagram?"

"I think it's when you make a picture that looks like something is cut in half so you can see what things look like inside."

So while other 4 year olds are drawing rainbows and flowers, my little Titanic expert is holding up dinner with his cross section diagrams and bilge keels.



This is a cake Cole and I made, and When Wayne got home , he frosted and decorated it. We took some over to Elaine and Bernard.