Some photos

Eddie helps Anne open her birthday present

Chilling at the playground

Eddie likes to mail things

Eddie found the best bench

Eddie is a witch!

Looking at light on leaves

Takin' care of the chickens

Farmer buddies

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Whee

Howdy, pardner

Eddie loves selfies

Anchors

I was walking with Eddie to the Navy Yard today, and we passed some anchors which he likes to stop and climb on. He said "What are these, Papa? What are these?"
I said "Those are anchors."
He said "What do they anch?"

Worker play

During dinner, Eddie was wearing his hard hat (he has a plastic hard hat from the Touch-a-truck event.) He said "I'm a worker. Worker likes to play!" He still regularly sees workers outside our windows, working on the parking lot.

I said "Play? Workers like to work!"

He said "This worker likes to play."

Mail

Eddie likes to open mail these days. He will often declare that some of our junk mail is "his." He likes to look through catalogs and open envelopes.  He thinks envelopes should have something inside, so when he finds an empty return envelope, he always stuffs something in.

Today he asked for some mail before dinner and I gave him a subscription ad for a kid's magazine. "Mail for Eddie?" he asked, and I said yes.
"What's inside?" he wondered. "I don't know," I told him, then went in the kitchen, while he stayed sitting at the table.

In the kitchen, we heard him have this little conversation with himself:

"What's inside?  Hmmm. Is it a tiger? No." He said "No" with a great, are-you-kidding-me kind of tone.

Robbing

Eddie got a new Lego set (thanks, Grandma Subie!) which has a royal knight guarding a treasure chest from a couple of robber knights. Anne was a little worried about explaining the conflict to Eddie, but he grasped the situation right away. He said that the two robber knights were "pirates," and he took one of the robbers and had him jump on the treasure chest, and said in his best raspy pirate voice: "I want all the treasure. It's my!"

Potty learning

Eddie's been doing a great job using the potty. He waited for the right time and he's made himself a self-directed success. He's gone on outings to the park, playground, market, and voting station--staying dry all the time. There have been some accidents at home but many more successes. Yesterday he had his first poop on the potty and was very impressed. When asked if he needs to do that today he said, "Nooo. I need not go do poopies."

Potty

Eddie peed in his potty today! Then he emptied it into the toilet, wiped with some toilet paper, put that in the toilet, and flushed it. (This is not stuff we've been trying to get him to do—it's on his own initiative.)
Then he peed in his potty two more times! Finally we had to drag him off to eat his dinner.