Bevan, Bessica, and Biss!

(Jenn)

We had a special treat last weekend: a visit from our best New Jersey friends Evan, Jessica, and Chris! Evan and Henry have been missing each other terribly since we moved, and we were dying to get them together. It was so fun to be together again and for them to meet Ellis! While they were here, I realized that Evan and Henry really are meant to be best friends. They got along so well and just played happily together the whole time! I've never met another kid who was so willing to play cars, make silly faces, and make up crazy words with Henry for hours on end. The adults had a great time visiting because the boys were so occupied with each other -- we really hardly had to watch them at all!

I think the boys would have been happy just staying home playing with cars the whole time, but we did a few fun things to keep ourselves busy. On Friday we hit the children's museum, where we spent most of our time playing with the (you guessed it) trucks and trains. The boys both bought a toy train from the gift shop, which provided hours of entertainment for the rest of the weekend! On Saturday we went to the Watertown Family Network's "Touch the Trucks." It was a dream-event for Henry and Evan both: an open parking lot filled with all sorts of trucks, from fire trucks to dump trucks to school busses. The kids were allowed to touch them, climb in them, and learn all about them. Can you think of a better idea?

So Henry's favorite quirky habit right now (aside from burping, which is still going strong) is changing the first letter of a word to another letter and then laughing at the result (he'll sit at the dinner table for hours talking about his landwich, luice, and logurt!). It's pretty funny stuff. Trust me. Last weekend was no exception, and this fun game continued until I'm afraid it drove everyone nuts. We spent the entire car ride home from the restaurant on Friday listening to Henry go through all of our names with EVERY letter of the alphabet numerous times: Bommy, Baddy, Bellis, Benry, Bessica, Biss, and Bevan! Wommy, Waddy, Wellis, Wenry, Wessica, Wiss, and Wevan! Tommy, Taddy, Tellis, Tenry, Tessica, Tiss, and Tevan! Occasionally it got really exciting: Sommy, Saddy, Sellis, Senry, Sessica, Siss, and Sevan! Seven? That's a number! The best part of this game is when you end up with names that are real words. The highlight was when we got "Hellis" and "Hevan" both in one round.

The game continued pretty much nonstop for the rest of the weekend. Bessica, Biss, and Bevan endured it pretty well, and they still stayed until Sunday like they planned, to my relief! If only they could be here now . . . they could hear how much Henry misses them. On he goes, including Ressica, Riss, and Revan in all of our topics of conversation.

Ah, this too shall pass.