STOMP

Harrison and I went and we had front row seats (because they were free)!! Harrison, being a very dedicated percussionist, absolutely LOVED it. But he did say his favorite part was when I put in his ear plugs. He spent the 2nd half of the show with giant orange foam plugs sticking out of his ears.

Big woods and mud puddles and monster trucks

Harrison and I had a big day together.  He got to drive the lawn mower, and a golf cart, and ride in a big off-road utility vehicle, and go on a "treasure hunt" which means we looks for sticks and rocks and moss and deer tracks, and gather firewood, and even watch some of the IU basketball game.  This is Harrison next to what he refers to as both the golf cart and the monster truck.  He loves going out to the hunting grounds to drive it all over the place.  And he is surprisingly good at driving it.  He keeps it on the trails perfectly until he gets distracted by a stick on the ground or a stump to the side or a tree that looks like a fork.  He sits on my lap and steers and I handle the accelerator and brake...so we don't find ourselves upside down at the bottom of a ravine.  His favorite part is the various mud puddles in the trail, he steers right for them and we slosh through as he yelps with glee. 

And we always have to go way back to the very back of the property to find the old trailer full of junk.  Harrison thinks it's awesome.  Yes, those are bullet holes around his head.  Such is to be expected in the middle of the woods in Indiana. 

Big tank next to the trailer.  I told him it was full of chocolate syrup and that some day when he has kids of his own (and I have grand kids) we would bring some ice cream with us on the monster truck and have the biggest ice cream sundaes in the whole wide world.  He simply said 'wow'.  Then 'lets drive the monster truck some more.'

Judo baseball in the garage

Hit ball off of garage door, then judo-chop ball when it ricochets back at your face.

Dinner with the Hoosiers

The IU game last night was live on TV on the Internet. We determined that meant we had to use a computer to watch it. So the game sat with us in a high chair during dinner. Harrison thought this was AWESOME.