Baking with Grandma Laurie

The other day Grandma Laurie was in the kitchen busy making rolls. Her church, Trinity United Methodist in Clayton, NJ has started a soup ministry on Saturdays. Grandma makes the rolls. She was busy and I decided I should help. I climbed right up on the stool and demanded to be involved. She gave me some dough. I didn't like it at first, it was sticky. But after mom added some flour and put some flour on the counter I had some fun.

After she made little balls she put them on a tray. I, of course, also wanted to put some on a tray. Grandma would not let me put my dough balls on her tray (something about other people eating hers or germs or something...), but she gave me a tray to put mine on.

It is fun to help. Are you a good helper? Do you offer to help when you can? It is always more fun to work together than by ourselves.

I've got some news!

Well, I figure it's my job to keep all of you up to date on what is going on in the family, especially since I know mom and dad are pretty bad about keeping their blog updated. So, I don't know if they have told their blog readers this yet or not (you know, since I can't read yet or anything), but... there's a baby joining our family! 

I know, you're shocked, right? I was when I found out too. Honestly, I'm still not quite sure what to think. Mom and dad seem pretty excited, but I'm not so sure. 

It's a good thing I got to meet Adalynn Gormong and Ella Engebretson while we were gone though. At least now I know what a baby is anyway. When I first met Adalynn I wasn't so keen on the idea of my mom and dad holding someone else, that's my spot!

But after a few days I started warming up to the idea of having other little people around.

That doesn't mean, however, that I'm ready for a little sister yet. I know mom wants to have a little girl, but I would rather have a brother I can play with and I think dad agrees with me. It's only fair though, because when we get to Arua mom and dad will be working with the Coppedges, Uncle Billy and Aunt Jo, and they have two little girls, Elsie Jayne and Lucy. I don't want to be the only little boy--who know what they would do to me!

But I digress. I guess in the end, I'm more excited than not about having a baby brother or sister. Everything's better when you have a partner in crime, right?

So there you go, that's the big news in our family. I wanted you to hear it from me, someone you trust, before you heard it on the street.