Greek Bear

Alex's parents have friends who live in Greece -- a whole family of folks they go over and visit every so often. It all started with one of the family daughters (Athina) being Markita and Michael's student. Anyway, Athina got this awesome bear for Jack. She has two babies, so she knows what they like. :) It has a string in the back that you pull to get a music-box lullaby playing.

He thought the pull-string was really interesting.

"Did you see this awesome bear??"

Even the bear's gift bag was a fun toy. :)

This is his face when he's saying "B-b-b-bb-bb-b-b-b," which means "Gosh, I am just so interested and happy right now -- mostly very interested!"

What a great present!

Also, there was some quiche.... :)

I didn't get to try the quiche because I was pretty well overdoing it on dairy while we were there, but one can only assume it was delicious. (It looked really yummy and it all disappeared!)

More from Mizzou!

Uncle Eric has my sweet tooth, so we banded together and made a delicious Nutella cake.

Jack ended up with a spoon of his own, at some point. You can't see it, but he was having a great time whacking things and biting the spoon. (AKA "cooking".) :)
I'm not sure where Jack got to.... probably off with Granny or Grampa
...and then it was down to Eric to finish the cake. :) I'm pretty sure I was in and out still, but the cake took a while and Jack didn't really have the attention span for it.

Starting the Missouri blogging

We've been in Missouri since Tuesday, so it's about time I got on the blog and posted some things! I have been accidentally stockpiling photos, so I'm probably going to do some time-delay stuff. Stay tuned throughout the week!

Here are some pictures of Jack with the grandparents!