BFFs

This is Sara. She is Tycho's best friend. You might say it's unusual, that a three-year-old has a best friend, or maybe I'm just using the term lightly. I assure you, I'm not. He is his mother's son, after all.

It all started at a play group a few months ago. There are normally at least 10 kids that go to play group, and Tycho was equally friendly to all of them. Insert Sara. I'm not sure who took whose toy first, but it became a game. Sara would take whatever toy Tycho had, then run off, and Tycho would chase her (and vice versa). Also, I think maybe they pretend the toy is a football because, inevitably, the chasee would have to get tackled by the chaser.

One time, Jacob took Tycho for a "quick trip" to the NEX... and came back a couple hours later. Apparently, on the way to the store, Tycho saw Sara in the barber shop and he HAD to go keep her company while her dad got a hair cut.

Tycho gets to go to a little church class for twenty minutes (they read a bible story and then color a picture) and he always ALWAYS has to sit next to Sara.

Another place Tycho "has" to sit next to Sara: library story hour. And when we sing the good morning song, they like to put each other in the song:

Miss Kaneisha: Tycho, it's your turn for the good morning song. What would you like to put in the song?
Tycho: SARA!!
Everyone sings (as Tycho and Sara jump together): Good morning! Good morning! We like the little friend that you have. In fact we like her so much we're gonna put her in a song in a song... in a song. Put Tycho and his friend in a song. Hooray!

(note: normally when a kid gets to jump for the good morning song, he puts shoes, or clothes, or toys/stuffed animals in the song, so it goes "... we like the pretty shoes that you wear. in fact we like them so much... put so-and-so and her shoes in a song. hooray!" Get it? That's okay, neither do I, but I sing along anyway)

Sometimes we run into Sara when we're grocery shopping. One time Sara taught Tycho how to ballroom dance right there in the cereal aisle (I really wish I had my camera for that one).

Sometimes (okay, a lot of times) there are genuine tears when these two part company. I guess it's the toddler way of saying "I'll miss you."

Home, Sweet Home

This huge tree is next to our house. It's perfect for climbing, though Tycho is a bit too young for that (so I have to help him).

This is Windmill beach. It's about five minutes from our house. We go to a beach at least once a week.


(this picture is from the day that Jacob went spear fishing at Windmill and caught a barracuda!)

It's common to find frogs and such outside.

...Not so common to find them INSIDE (Tycho got pretty excited to find this frog next to the bathroom). How did it get there??

We went to a farewell party and this hammock was there. The kiddos spent a good hour in it.

In a hammock, next to the beach, in the land of summer. Pretty much paradise.