Anders has also had some recent fun feeding the ducks. I should take a picture of the duck pond. There are a bunch of aggressive ducks that waddle up to anyone who appears to have food. These ducks have actually taken food right out of Anders' hand. leading Anders to say "Ducks bite hand!"
Anders knows Lincoln is on the penny. We ask him, "Who is on the penny?" "Lincoln!" he answers. Anders also knows the current president, whom he calls "Oh Bama," much like he would say "Oh Ernie" or "Oh Bert." Obama is like a Muppet to Anders, which puts him in Anders' highest regard. Yesterday, he even said Sirte, after hearing about Libya on the news. Anders still enjoys nuck (milk) and news.
Anna taught him to say, "Oh, no, no, thank you, Sir," which he says over and over. He also picks up Cheerios from the floor, saying "thank you" as he picks up each cheerio from the floor.
We took Anders to the Houston Children's Museum on Saturday. Anders loved the stackable letter blocks best. He also enjoyed playing with my colleague Jason's son, Alan who is a couple months older than Anders. Today Anna and Anders had a play date with a friend of Chris Heine's wife who lives here in Sugar Land. You know who else lives in the Sugar Land area? TV's Bo Duke, yes, John Schneider. I'm not sure if Luke Duke lives in Katy, but I bet Coy and Vance live no closer than Lake Charles. Anyway, Anders had a great time. Anna said he laughed harder than she's ever seen him laugh at the antics of the almost-three-year-old girl on the play date.
I had Columbus Day off. I was working on grades and writing comments, which I turn in with grades. Wednesday, my advisory of 9th graders and my family are all going to the zoo together. Then, Thursday, Anna and Anders are attending Anders' first friend's birthday party.
The weather is much better now. We had a true rainy day with inches of rain yesterday. For the first time since we moved here the high temp was not in the 80s. It smells really good outside now, not cool and crisp like in the Midwest, but it smells sort of like March in Arizona or December in Los Angeles, smells that I love.
Anna and I still talk about Athens, usually at dinner time. We recently had a discussion about when we exactly hit rock bottom in Athens. Anna maintains it was the Sunday morning last fall when we were heading to the emergency vet in West Virginia to treat Trudy for fleas that had reached her via one of Anna's students. For me it was last March when I was hundreds of miles from home interviewing for a job I didn't want and knew I wouldn't get and learned that home inspectors found bogus problems with our basement imperiling our fragile agreement to sell the house, along with the fact that Anders was ill and admitted to that Mickey Mouse hospital in Gallipolis. Those are the nature of our discussions when we remember Athens.
Oh, Anders also loves playing with the football. He enjoys stacking toy pirates from the splash table on the car. Anna forgot about this one time, thus taking the pirates on a joy ride. Later that afternoon, we found the pirates aground on Greenfields Drive half a block away!
Not only does Anders loves Dallas, but he loves the Texas grocery chain, HEB. He loves finding those letters and excitedly shouting out H E B! A new HEB just opened in Sugar Land. Texas is unique because it's the only place I've been in the last three years where they are still building retail outlets and houses. Like Anders, I genuinely like it here.
I almost forgot, Anders know can sing the complete ABC song!
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