A spider escapes to spin its web; we eat breakfast as a train rolls by
Monday, June 21, 2010 at 11:41AM ;)
I leave for Nuuk, Greenland in less than four days and I have a great deal to do between now and then, so I suspect that I will be blogging lightly for the rest of the week - although one never knows for sure with me.
So I won't write much about Kalib or about any of these pictures. As you can see, he is playing in the yard. What more do you need to know?
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I suppose it would be helpful to know that these images were taken Father's Day afternoon, this one shortly after Kalib's dad fired up the grill.
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Lavina and Melanie than set out to cook bread on the coals, and peppers, too.
Here is the bread and peppers - Apache style bread, of course. It turned out excellent.
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This was the first time I had ever seen Jobe eat solid food; I think it might have even been the first time that he ever did. Lavina or Jacob will correct me if I am wrong. He ate beef. Margie noted a study that she had read about that indicated that when a baby eats beef for his first solid meal, it helps further that baby's brain development.
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Rex brought a piece of art work with him that he was very proud of. He has been working on some kind of project to renovate a day care center and a five year-old girl who is a student there has become very fond of him. She was sad when he had to go, so she gave him these pieces of art that she had made especially for him.
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Okay - left to right: Kalib, Jobe, Jobe, Lafe, Kalib.
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After we had eaten, Kalib went out into the front yard to play in the dirt and I followed, to make certain that he did not run into the road when a car was coming. Later, his dad came out and found a nice little critter to show him.
The critter escaped and ran up his dad's arm.
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This is the critter - a spider and a rather cute one at that.
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Kalib scrutinizes the spider as it dangles beneath Jacob's hand from a string of web.
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In the evening, as usual, everybody left. Muzzy would run for the first block.
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I had planned to drive Margie into Anchorage this morning so that she could begin her week of baby-sitting Jobe. Jacob called just as we were about to leave and said Lavina would be working at home today and so I did not need to bring Margie in until tomorrow.
Instead, I took her to Mat-Su Valley Family Restaurant, where we had the first of what should be several free breakfasts.
Yesterday J2KLM2 Hess gave me a $100 gift certificate to Family Restaurant for Fathers Day.
J2 = Jacob and Jobe, K = Kalib, L = Lavina, M2 = Muzzy and Martigne.
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As we were sitting there, eating our free breakfast, the train came rolling by.
It was thrilling. How could the breakfast experience get any better than this?
Reader Comments (7)
Looks like a perfect day at the Hess house. Love the fire shot!
Yes, the fire shot is amazing. Same with Kalib watching the spider.
Happy belated Father's day - that was a wonderful post you did yesterday.
Kalib watching spider = photographic perfection
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Ewww! That spider looks enough like the wood ticks we find here, that it made me shudder. Spiders don't make me shudder like wood ticks do!
Yes, our little Jobe did have beef for dinner. He has been eating solid food for two weeks now. He is a pro.
Its funny...everytime I come into Wasilla now I always glance over at the Family Restaurant, searching for your car and wondering if I would even remember what it looks like from your posts on here. I've only eaten there 2 or 3 times, my husband liked it better than I did.
Jobe and Kalib are getting so big!