Rachel met me in Franklin today so we went to Pucketts for lunch.

The sister-in-law also came to visit recently over spring break.

I got off work early on that Friday so we went to the Franklin Park.

Rachel dyed her hair with Henna while Anna was here.

And here are some random pics of a cute little boy.

Lately I have been working on several sewing projects. Allen loves to watch me sew. He wants to help as well, but is very limited in what he can do safely. Whenever I sit down at the machine he brings a stool up and watches everything I do. Sometimes he even sits on my lap. Anyway, the other day I finished my seam and had sit back to examine my work. When I looked up this is what I saw.

That kid never misses a beat.

What do you get when you mix Chocolate and Allen? See Below:

And I see we have a great musician on our hands:

Looking at his notebook on his newly finished quilt (finally).

Playing in the tent with Laurel.

Allen likes to stack the pieces to his rocking moon game.

And of course the cuisenaire rods are a lot of fun.

So we kept trying to warn Allen about the dangers of all things hot… specifically things like stoves, irons etc. And you have to understand, Allen is now just tall enough to reach up to the ironing board and touch things like irons!

Well anyway, Rachel was doing something with the iron, she turned her back, and curiosity got the best of the little critter. The iron being hot and all, he got disinterested fairly quickly… but not before he incurred a blister on his middle finger. He was pretty miserable most of the rest of the evening.

The next day, anytime he saw the iron on the ironing board, he was constantly informing us that the iron was “hhhhaaaahhhhhh” (it’s hard to get the pronunciation right on a blog post, it’s basically drawing out the word and forgetting to add the T at the end). As if we didn’t know and hadn’t warned him…

I’m sure no one will mind, he’s got to be the cutest little boy on the planet.