Tunnels, Friends, and Teeth, Oh My!

This week Dawson's social calendar was quiet full! :) On Tuesday, John and I took Dawson to the children's reading group at the Madison Library which was a lot of fun and proved to be entertaining for us and Dawson. Dawson actually did a wonderful job paying attention to the librarian read three stories. After each book there were different songs complete with hand movements/dances that the librarian would lead. Despite there being over 20 other kids there under the age of 3, Dawson actually watched the librarian read and looked at the pictures most of the time. After storytime there was a craft project the children could do, however, it involved coloring an owl without eating the Crayons and gluing feathers on an owl without eating the feathers. Well, you guessed it...we tried to eat the Crayons and the feathers. I held the Crayon in Dawson's hand and showed him how to color, but that wasn't too interesting for him. We left during craft time, but we had a good time and plan to continue taking Dawson at least for the story part.
Tuesday afternoon John and I took Dawson to KidVenture in Huntsville. It is a large indoor play area with all kinds of fun things that Dawson loved! His favorite things there were the tunnels of course! They also had a mini ball pit which was just a square area with balls in it for children under three which Dawson also loved! I was impressed with how brave Dawson was at KidVenture pulling up and trying to climb on big things! Also, finally Dawson walked in front of John while we were there. Since then, actually, Dawson has been walking quiet a bit. Six steps at one time is the most he has taken, but he's starting to do it more and more! While we were at KidVenture we ran into our friend Blakeley with her son, Jude, and Dawson and Jude got to play together for a few minutes while we were there. After leaving KidVenture it was time to head home for a nap because Dawson was worn out!
Wednesday John had to go into work, so Dawson and I had our friends Blakeley and Jude over to play. Unfortunately, I did not take any pictures while they played together, but the two had fun.
Thursday evening we went to a cookout with some of our friends, and then today we relaxed at home before getting Dawson's very own tunnel from his Lolly and Pop. To continue the tunnel obsession, Dawson now has his own tunnel in the playroom. I think he wore himself out crawling back and forth through the tunnel with different toys this evening, so hopefully he will sleep well tonight!
I guess I should mention that we are currently being visited by the Tooth Monster. To clarify, I have decided that it's a Tooth Fairy that takes you teeth when you loose them, but when you're getting teeth, as Dawson is right now, your home is unfortunately visited by the Tooth Monster causing fussiness and excessive drool! :) Dawson is cutting his top two front teeth at the same time. We know the little guy is in some pain because of this, so we're hoping they will go ahead and pop on through the gums pretty soon.
And a random funny from our house this week...Dawson has said the word "dog" several times when he sees Bentley as that is what we always tell him. On and on we say "see the dog?" "that's our dog!" "she's a good dog." "there's the dog." On and on like that all the time, so we weren't too surprised when Dawson started saying the word himself. Although we do call her dog, we also call her Bentley, of course. This week many, many times Dawson has looked at her and, instead of saying "dog" like before, has clearly said, "Bob." We think this is hilarious. Sometimes he even says it several times, "Bob, bob, bob, bob, bob." The other night in the car he was really tired and fussy and he said "Dad...Dad....Dad...Dad.." several times, and switched to Mom, "Mom...Mom...Mom...", then I guessed he felt pretty desperate because he started calling for, "Bob...Bob.." a few times. Dawson always makes us laugh! :)
So, from John, Dawson, Me, and, of course, "Bob"-Have a great weekend and enjoy the pictures!

Above: Dawson excited about entering the big

tunnel at KidVenture.

Above: Daddy and Dawson at KidVenture.

Above: Dawson found his friend, Jude, at

KidVenture. Dawson was so excited he got really

close to Jude to talk, as you can see in the picture.

Above: My brave boy decided to attempt climbing

the slide.

Above: Mommy and Dawson on top of the slide at KidVenture.

Above: Dawson crawling back in the big

tunnel at KidVenture.

Above: In the tunnel again.

Above: Out of the tunnel!

Above: Dawson hanging his owl art project

from the library on our refrigerator. It's his

first art project on the fridge, so we had to

take a picture! :)

Above: An up close shot of the owl.

Above: Dawson's new tunnel. While I was putting

the two other pieces together, he found this little

piece and tunneled back and forth through it.

Above: He couldn't wait for me to get all the tags

off before he started tunneling.

Tunnel.

Above: You can kind of tell from this profile shot that

he has a big grin on his face.

Above: Tunneling with the ball.

Above: Hanging out in the tunnel.

More tunnel.

More tunnel.

Above: Coming out of the tunnel for a break.