A Denver day

it's Tuesday again. Denver's day.

 its gettin him out of the house and treating him to an afternoon of tadpole tales at the library and a yummy lunch of his personal choice. a special day for a special guy.
I've even been known to brush his teeth for the occasion.

the highlight of the day is a puppet named Bernie.

so now the library is not the "library" it's called "Bernie's house".

after story and dance, they get to create a craft, denver calls it "playing with paper",

and today they made a caterpillar.

and food of choice, was pancakes....for lunch.  or should I say brunch.

but today we wanted to surprise him. take him somewhere different. somewhere new. you know, stimulate the brain a little.

so i asked him. if he could do anything in the whole world today, what would it be, and he said he wanted to go somewhere where there are dinosaurs and bears, in which made

it a perfect day for a trip to the museum.
we didn't tell him where we we're going, but he new it would be an anventure. 

where he crawled around with the bears, and dug for dinosaur bones.

and all the hard work sure built up an appetite, and nothing sounds better than a piping hot pizza on a cold day, so they put on their aprons and got to work.

its pizza time at the parlor

when they asked what i wanted on my pizza, i said i wanted everything they had.
~on the double~

i could see they were getting busy in there, so i didn't complain about the wait.

and it was well worth waiting for.  it was the loveliest pizza i have ever been served. pizza made straight from the heart, topped with tender love and care.. never better.

then onward to the zoo.

Denver got to see all kinds of animals, and even one's he's never seen before.

my personal favorite was the bat exibit, it was the most dispicible, horrifying, utterly discusting display i've ever seen and I sincerely loved it. i could barely bring myself to part with them.

just breathe erica, it will be ok.

one foot after another. then repeat.

so denver got to see bears, dig dinosaur bones, play in water, work in a pizza parlor,

animal hospital and grocery store.

he drove a "digger" truck, a pick-up truck, and a recycling mobile.

he got bossy with sis one too many times, and even got thrown in the slammer.

just a little reminder as to who's the boss around here.

that oughtta teach him.

after he made bail, we stopped for some Twinkies and to rest a bit.

it sure would have been nice to take a small nap, but we forgot our pillow pets,

so with that, we called it a day.

who knows, next tuesday we may do it all over again.

and i can't wait.

~It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.  ~Frederick Douglass