Mom's Chickeny Birthday

Big Ern was sad to learn that his grandparents were going home soon but he was happy to spend some more time with them.

I picked up a few of Mom's favorites to celebrate her birthday. During my childhood birthday parties the menu was often fried chicken and ice cream cake because those were her favorites. That made it easy to decide what to get this time, anyway.

A fun thing about Xbox Game Pass is it helps you to discover lots of little indie games that you might never have noticed otherwise.

Ernin' Around Bellevue

Big Ern spent some more quality time with his grandparents today.

Ern was really giving her an examination today.

We had some junk food at the Bellevue Square Mall foodcourt. A funny problem that Ernie had is that he can eat something in his fist down to a nub but then he can't get to the last bit.

Bellevue Downtown Park skate rink being dismantled.

Ern is lucky to have a nice family.

Meet Mustache

Ernie spent more time with his visiting grandparents today. I hadn't expected the amount of joy that Ern would bring to others' lives. Even strangers on the street seem to get a kick out of his presence.

Ernie was pretty excited about pulling Tom's mustache. If it's not the first Ernie has ever seen it's definitely the first he's touched.

G-Units

Ern's Grandma and Grandpa came to visit him all the way from Springfield, Illinois.

Ernie's interpretation of a kiss is to get really close to you with his mouth open.

Late Christmas Goodies

Ern was traveling the world during Christmas so it took Santa a little extra time to find him. 

He got some good stuff from Grandpa Evan and Grandma Andrea.

He got a couple of good bath toys. We had to help him open the presents but he was very excited about it.

I've been sad lately that his hair is changing color.  It was darker like mine but blonder hair has been coming in underneath.

We had to rush to the tubby so we could check out our new gadgets. This this is actually impressive, it has a little water pump inside and is like a faucet.

Our fancy man French baker friend Renaud hooked us up with a french style King cake. It isn't hot purple and covered with sugar but...

it did have a cool little toy to hide inside.

There were a few flavors and I chose pistachio.