Migrating

Nana and Hope are visiting this week. Life is good. They flew in yesterday, and Kiernan immediately got to introducing them to all of his dinosaurs. As I've said, he's heavy into dinosaurs at the moment and loves talking to people about them. He has several--ha ha...did I say 'several'? I meant to say 'a gazillion'...silly me--dinosaur toys and he loves introducing them to people. After he introduced Nana to all of his dinosaurs, shortly after we returned with Nana and Hope from the airport, Nana opened her suitcase and presented Kiernan with a dinosaur game. Here's Nana and Kiernan examining the game.


It's a nifty little game. Kiernan loves it. You press a button and a weirdly British computer voice tells you facts about the dinosaurs. Kiernan knows most of these facts, but he still loves playing with the game. I love the game too. My favorite thing about it? It apparently has no volume control. Sweet!

Today, Nana and Hope's first full day here, we all went to pick up Kiernan at his summer kindergarten and whisked him away to lunch. Here's Kiernan, Nana, Hope and Wendy at pickup time.


Note the tatoo. Wendy brought that back from her trip to Tennessee last week.

After lunch we all went to the book store. This is an exciting excursion any day of the week, but today was especially exciting as Nana had conspired with Kiernan to buy a bird watching book. True story. Yesterday during dinner Kiernan revealed that he loves watching the birds in the backyard. We eat most dinners outside and Kiernan loves watching the hummingbirds buzz the flowers and the other birds perch on the wires. He often asks me to whistle to them. At dinner with Hope and Nana he continually asked, "What bird do you think that is?" He always asks this, but I'm completely ignorant when it comes to birds, so everything is either a pigeon or a swallow, no matter what it actually is.

Nana took a different tack. Instead of giving a dopey flippant answer, she said, "Let's go get a bird watching book tomorrow.

And that is what they did.

Here's a shot of Nana, Hope and Kiernan checking out the bird watching book they picked out at the bookstore today...while they do some birdwatching.


Note the birdwatching "binoculars" Kiernan made at school last week.