Friday...

Let me start by saying, TGIF.
I'm so ready for the weekend.

Sadly, I must come in tomorrow (yes, on a Saturday), for a staff meeting w/ the weekend staffers. Yummy. Looking forward to it. Counting down the hours....

Baby Gage spent the night at Linda's last night for date night.
We went to Joe's Crab Shack, and then back to the casa. No biggie.

But...I'm missing that boy!
It's so funny how he gets tickled at random things...
Like this: Thursday morning, I woke him up to go to Linda's for the day. I said, "You want to go see Memaw?" & he'd smiiiiiile. Then I would say, "You want to go see Sadie?" (that's their dog...a collie) He would LAUGH & LAUGH. It was so cute!
He seems to love Sadie more than Eddie. Sadie's smaller, never barks, never licks him...she was abused & then adopted my Memaw & Papa, so she's really really shy. But---Gage will go right up to her & try to pull her nose off. She moves around, but never snips, or barks, or anything. She's such a good dog!

Gage is working on more words...
"uh-oh" is relatively new.
"oof"...he loves making this noise, particularly in the morning when he first wakes up. Not really sure what it means, but it generally indicates that he's in a good mood.
"cah" ....that's his primitive version of "car". He'll point & look at the road when a car goes by.

He has also really mastered the task of walking. I am by no means saying that he's always stable on his feet all of the time...but it has become his preferred mode of travel. Well, that and Mom carrying him. I guess really--he prefers to be carried, but if not, he'd rather walk than crawl.

His latest trick: climbing.
I do not like this phase.
He can climb UP...but has yet to figure out getting DOWN.
He will push his toys to the edge of the couch, pile them up, and then climb up the toy-pile, until he can get up onto the couch. Now getting down---he just crawls right off the edge until he falls to the floor, and MomMom picks up a startled, crying, ball of baby, who can't figure out what just happened. Yes, I almost had a heart attack.
While on our little trip, he took the box that the pampers came in (we buy the big boxes of diapers...) and he turned it upside down. Then, he climbed on top of it, and was perched on all fours on top of this empty box that could collapse at just any minute.
Then---the cabin had low window sills. He tried soooo hard to climb onto the window sill that was only about 2 inches deep. He'd get one leg up, then he'd try to get the other one up...but he'd have to put the first one down to get the 2nd one up...he just couldnt figure out that he didnt fit up there. It was pretty amusing to watch....

I'm ready to go home & see my buddy!!!

Movie Reviews:
"Love Actually": actually, we didnt watch more than 20 minutes of it. It sucked.
"The Greatest Game Ever Played": we both really enjoyed this one. Good movie.