Lindsey and I took my nephews to Dairy Queen tonight to celebrate the new school year. Jacob has been in pre-school for a full week and loves it. Sam just started first grade this week and claims the playground is "boring" and his favorite topic is lunch. I've never experienced him as wound up as he was tonight. Every sentence started with, "You know what?...." and then a fascinating fact about Godzilla or the Muppet Movie, which it seems he has memorized. It was hysterical. Jacob ate an ice cream sandwich by munching all the chocolate cookie off one side, then the other, then taking maybe a dozen licks off the remaining hockey-puck-like disc of dairy. Afterwards we went to Party City to look at Halloween stuff, because they love the holiday and the gore. They both are freaked out by blood and won't say the word, but spell it out. "Jacob look at the b-l-o-o-d on this witches hand." It was all fun and I'm glad that we will be able to spend more time together--now that they are back in St. Louis.
