Wes News

Recording this because it's hard to imagine it lasting. On Wesley's list of favorite things to do, including amusement parks and waterslides and Christmas, the top item is doing the laundry with Mommy.

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Monster Puppet!

Wesley and Daddy went biking this morning, me on my bike and Wes on his balance bike, about a mile and a half, and only came back because of cold fingers.

Riding the Bucking Bronco: Cheered on by cousins Travis and Hallie

Mr. Strong Man: In the Circus of the Sillies, #2

Pounding a Tent Peg: With cousin Hallie and Gup on camping trip in the NC woods.

We had some family fun playing with Wesley on Sunday. He asked each of us our favorite color, house, pet, food, and shirt. His parents helped him make the charts.

According to Anna, Wesley has a new question. She encouraged him to not say things like "I like that the most" or "I'm the best at that," and he relied: "Well, why did someone invent those words if you're not supposed to use them?"

Wesley's been through the 2-year-old year at pre-school attending 2 mornings a week, and the 3-year-old year attending 3 mornings a week. Now it's the 4-year-old class and every morning Monday through Friday, and he loves it.

Wesley went to Rehoboth Beach again this year and loved the waves, playing in them on the shore and swimming in them with his daddy.

Funland, in the background above, was still the biggest attraction for Wes, but he also loved digging in the sand.

We tried to dig to China but found water first.

If you wake up as early as Wesley you can have the beach all to yourself.

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There are no photos, but Wesley's favorites were the GhosterCoaster roller coaster, and water slides that you went down with inflatable tubes. Those and some other rides required that children by 40 inches tall, which is what Wesley was, so he just made the cut. The same went for Snoopy's Joe Cool Driving School:

Wesley had to push the gas pedal and steer (no brakes):

Get out of the way!

Wesley's used to tame rides like these by now:

More driving! (Race cars that stay on a track):

Hanging out in Fell's Point:

Waiting for the subway:

Captaining a boat in the science museum:

Building with legos in the science museum:

This table has an earthquake dial. If you build tall and wobbly enough you can get the earthquake to knock your building over; that was Wesley's goal.

He also loved the children's museum, the paddle boats, the water taxis, the hotel swimming pool, the aquarium, the inner harbor buildings, etc, etc....

Wesley picked up this trick last summer, but he's been becoming Oscar more and more frequently.

See what I mean?

His Daddy got him that shirt on a trip.

Wesley, we've been teaching you a lot, and you're a great learner. But I'm not sure you don't have something to teach us as well. Your Mommy and I took you to Baltimore last weekend. We rode on a subway and you didn't want to get off. You could be happy riding the subway all day. Or an escalator. You could ride up and down escalators all day and be ecstatic. Anyone who came near those escalators would be infected with happiness. We went to a children's museum and a science museum. You could have stayed all day in any room of either of them and never grown the least bit bored. At the hotel you said you wanted to live there forever. But when we're at home you want to live here forever too. It's just that you're so thrilled with whatever fun thing you're doing, you don't much want it to end. The rest of us are usually planning ways to change where we are or what we're doing, rather than laughing with delight at our current activities. We should work on that.