Savoring The Moment

I am almost too tired to write this tonight, but it was such a great day.

My son, grandson, and I went to the big old park here in town and spent the entire day walking, playing on the toys, splashing in the water fountains, jumping in bounce houses and even going to the zoo. It turned out to be the Fall Festival day and they had hay rack rides, as well as s'mores and everything was free and it was loads of fun.

We took the dog and he was almost as big a hit as the other things. Everyone wanted to pet Chauncey.

I learned some things I thought I already knew, like listen to your grandson when he talks. Lennon kept asking why the drops of water falling in front of his eyes as he played in the fountains, looked red, or blue, or black and we kind of brushed him off by saying it depended where you were looking as they dripped off. Look at something red and they will be red, etc. Finally he pointed to big, bloody looking splotches on the ground and said, "See, it's on the ground too!"

Seems the Chicago Cubs Hat he borrowed from his other grandma bleeds colors when it gets really wet! At that point we were just glad it was the hat.

On the way home we tracked down a hot air balloon that was starting to land and were able to be there as it hit the ground. The guys in it were really sweet and let Lennon "help" roll it up and put it away, all gathering together at the end to plop him down on the big balloon bag when it was finished. He's invited for a ride whenever he is tall enough to see over the basket!

Arriving at my house pretty late, we had chocolate milk and orange iced cookies. (Orange is Lennon's favorite color and he shares a love of chocolate milk with his gramma.) His daddy hooked up my cable box to the new television correctly and even connected the Dvd recorder they brought from my old house!

Now they are gone and I probably won't see them for another year, but this was a day to remember.