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Scout - at 15 months and 1 week - has finally learned to open doors.  Ours are the levers, not the knobs, and he has mastered the trade.  When he finally figured it out this morning, he was so proud of himself that he repeated it about four more times.  What a bummer, because that was the best way to sequester him.

Micah was away on a business trip all last week, and was so excited to get home Saturday night.  When Scout was already sleeping, he was so bummed to have to wait until Sunday to see him, but he definitely made up for lost time.  We set up a blanket on the grass, and just hung out all afternoon.  The cutest part was when Scout kept crawling into his bike trailer because he wanted Micah to take him on a ride.  Micah promised him that they would go first thing in the morning.  After playing with him a ton, I set up a little popcorn party for them that night.  Scout ate about 3/4 of the bowl, and loved hanging out just like his daddy. Then first thing this morning, at 6:00 (about 3 hours before he usually wakes), Micah had him up, in warm clothes and on an hour run with him.  Scout came back as happy as a clam!

My husband kept trying to convince me that I should pick my beautiful watermelon that was growing in my garden.  Because he is the gardening KIA (that is an acronym for Know-It-All that I use more times than I would like), he told me that it was a mini watermelon, and was probably ruined by now because I have waited so long to pick it.  So I reluctantly picked, because the guy is so stinking convincing…..and low and behold…….I picked too early!  All of my precious months of gardening and waiting patiently….gone to waste!  I do give him a bit of credit though.  He was kind of basing it off of my corn all going bad because I waited too long….AND it was only early by a week or two.  Still somewhat edible - but not great.  But the beauty of the whole episode is that we made a deal.  If it wasn’t good because of a premature picking, he had to eat the whole thing.  Meanwhile, it is cut in half and sitting in our fridge to cool down, because the watermelon KIA knows exactly how to prepare the perfectly delicious watermelon.

Side note: Look at the “fruit” of my labors…….how cute is the mini red bell pepper!

Scout is such the show off lately.  He is constantly doing push ups and hand stands (he just runs and slaps his hands to the ground like Skylar) to make people laugh.  Whenever he hears music, or someone tells him to dance, he does a dance with his eyes closed and gypsy arm movements.  He thinks it looks just like the one Jake and Cade do, but I would say it is a little different, and definitely funnier.  Anytime we laugh at something he does, he repeats it a dozen times.  And when Cade walks into walls and pretends to be hurt (but really he just slaps the wall with his hand, and then screams out in pain) Scout thinks it is hilarious, and then copies Cade.  The only problem is that Scout is really walking into walls, and banging his head.  His latest thing is asking for more crackers, while he is in his carseat, then he pretends to eat them, but actually hides them under his rear.  Trilby sayd he is saving his food because he doesn’t know when he will be fed next.  But it is really just because he knows I think it is funny.  He keeps us laughing all day, and is the ultimate ham.  His day isn’t great until he has an audience of at least 10 people.

My mom, Tristen, Scout and I spent the afternoon shopping in Solano Beach.   Afterward we headed to the Brockbank’s house to hang out for a bit.  WHile there, Scout said two sentences…..his first two!  We were outside playing when he was looking for a rubber duck we were throwing.  When he couldn’t find it, he lifted his hands in the air and said, “where duckie?”  How stinking cute is that!  We were celebrating his first sentence for an hour.  Then just two hours after that, my mom -his current favorite person in the world- left the room.  When she left, Scout said, “Nana, bye bye.” 

Scout, you are turning into such a big and handsome boy!