Knight of Americans

Look closely at the pilgrim in the Mayflower. No, it's not Joseph in his multi-colored coat- it's Landon! He made this Mayflower boat in school, using his amazing "crocodile cutting skills". Isn't it wonderful? He loves this boat and told me all about the Pilgrims coming across the ocean. I asked him how he knew all of this and he said "My teacher telled me." She also telled him that they came and met the Knight of Americans. Maura looked at him funny and he smacked his head with his hands and said "I mean Native Americans." Then he told us that the Pilgrims left their country because the King and Queen made bad decisions.

See my dog? I think she's beautiful and wonderful. She is getting old for her breed. When you get a puppy Great Dane and have to carry her up the stairs because her legs are too short you aren't really thinking about the fact that she will get huge and fiesty for a couple of years, stay huge but get lazy for a couple more years and then be an old dog....really soon. She has lots of white hair on her face now. She is the laziest thing with a beating heart that you have ever seen. In a good way, of course. She does do her job really, she pulls her weight around here, and that is to be our amazing dog- sit on our laps (ouch) and bark at nothing, eat and drink (but not things off the floor) and intimidate nice people that come to the door.





I came across a checkbook yesterday that had some Landon quips written on the back of it, apparently ones that I thought of while driving. They are from August.

He was explaining to me that jellyfish are the bumblebees of the ocean and stingrays are the hornets of the ocean. I thought that was quite a concept for him to put together but as I write it I wonder if it is a Spongebob element. Cute regardless.......

Also in August....At Aunt Holly's cottage he was looking at a painting of a mountain scene on a wall. He told his little cousin "Ryan, did you know that pictures are a shortcut to another place?" Seriously, I love that.