Fun With Papaw

My dad had to pick up a new trailer for his trucking business out here in Iowa so it was the perfect time for a weekend visit. Eli was so excited to see his Papaw, and he was even more excited when he saw that Papaw drove his big semi to see us. Eli loves loves loves to have visitors. He followed Papaw around and copied everything he did. It was so cute. Dad showed Eli some pictures of his corvette on his phone and for the rest of the weekend Eli would pretend to show us pictures of corvettes on his little phone. :-) It was such a wonderful visit!

The boys and their Papaw

Eli loved the semi

Sitting in the semi

Looking out the back windowPapaw and the boys
Eli and Papaw out on the porch

He had to sit just like Papaw (crossed ankles)He even had to put his drink next to Papaw'sJude wanted to be outside with Papaw too

Unfortunately the weekend ended on a sour note. The boys were crawling around playing together and having fun when Eli decided to push Jude. Jude fell into the bottom frame of the sliding glass door and got a not so nice bonk. We are really trying to work with Eli on being gentle. He can play so rough sometimes and he doesn't realize that he can hurt Jude. Jude cried for a few minutes but then he was fine and wanted to play again. He has a straight line bruise and a little bump on his forehead. This all happened about 20 minutes before bedtime so Eli had to sit on the couch for the rest of the night. Normally he would have had to go in timeout, but I was more concerned with calming Jude down and making sure he was ok so Eli just lost playing privileges. When Mike came out to help with bedtime (he was working on some school stuff) Eli told him that he was in trouble for pushing Jude and making him fall down. He understands what he did, but he couldn't tell us why he did it.

Poor Jude