Frith O’Steen

Decker sings all day long. His favorites are “Rudolph” and “Jingle Bells”. But being a multicultural kid, he also sings that classic for the ages, “I had a little dreidl”. Here’s his version: “Oh dreidl, dreidl, dreidl/I made it out of clay/And when it’s dry I’ll play with you”. (It’s cute in person, trust me).

The countdown to Christmas has begun. He continues to ask me when it will time to open the presents. And then goes back to report the results to his baby brother. The two of them have been pretty good together, considering they’ve been stuck inside quite a bit with various bugs and rainy days. Sutter’s quite mobile, so he tries to do EVERYTHING that Decker does, and most of the time Decker is a good sport about it. Last night they started squabbling over a toy phone and the next thing we knew, they were playing ‘follow the leader’ in an impromptu game, running circles around the couch, with Decker as the ‘leader’, pulling on the phone receiver, and Sutter bringing up the rear, grabbing onto the pull string and laughing his head off.

And Sutter has a new game - if you wink at him, he blinks his eyes very deliberately back at you and then grins - such a flirt. Very cute.

Until again, faithful readers…