Weekend Visitors

4 Generations...Toto, Dusty and Ella, Papaw, and Anson

Papaw and Lillian

Papaw and Ella

We had a great visit this weekend with Dusty's Mom, or as she is known to her grand kids, Toto! She took her father, "Papaw", and his friend Lillian on a trip to Indiana to see some family and they stopped here on their way back to FL. Megan went along too and had a very exciting time "with the old people" - her quotes exactly! She was the designated driver and drove the whole way! What a gal! Papaw had a great time reminiscing and we heard lots of neat stories from earlier years and listened to World War II era music. You would never be able to tell that he is 90 years old! Anson ate up all the attention and was quite excited to see everyone! And Ella had fun showing off her new skills, such as standing, waving, clapping, doing the baby sign for light, and... wait for it...

She took her first step! Yea! Ella took a step toward Toto! Toto said "Did she just take a step?" and I said, "I guess she did!" So that was fun! Then she did it again walking toward Dusty. She's getting the hang of it now so I'm sure she'll be taking off soon. And like I said above, she now knows her first sign. We have been trying to teach her "light" for a while now and she finally did it a few days ago! (Open and closing fingers) We are all at the table and Dusty said "Look Ella, light!" She looked up at the light and, with a huge smile, did the sign with her hand. Well, Anson and Dusty and I all clapped and carried on and made her do it over and over. So now every time she does the sign for light, she smiles and claps! It's so cute. I'll have to video her. Lastly, Here is a cute video of Anson waiting for his Daddy to get home. After taking this video, he ran to the window to watch for Dusty and said "Mommy, I will call him Dusty and you call him Daddy, OK?" What a kid.