Out for a Walk

Lillian, in her Bulbasaur guise, is visiting today with her grandparents. She and Yia-Yia spent time at Yia-Yia’s school’s Fall Fair, where Lillian did the hamster ball races and scored a big bag of candy. 

Then Lillian and ePa went for a long, leisurely walk on this rare gorgeous Houston afternoon (we think it’s cool; my brother Paul and his wife Nina, here from Finland, think it’s a glorious summer day).

Lillian is a wonderful walking companion: she carries the conversation (when she is not off running ahead to check out Halloween spiders and skeletons) and all one need do is throw in the odd “mmm hmmm” or nod of the head. 

A Sunday in October

Lillian’s hanging out with her grandparents, and her aunt Holly was in from Los Angeles, and catching a flight back this morning: but first she made a massive breakfast of eggs and bacon and sausage and lox and bagels and bruschetta and so forth. Then we piled in the car and ran her to the airport.

When we got back, Yia-Yia and Lillian engaged in a cutthroat game of Go Fish, and Lillian told us tales of her school and demonstrated some of the exercises she’s learned in P.E.: she’s got jumping jacks down cold, while her push ups might best be described as “impressionistic”.

It’s been a pretty good Sunday so far!