the education of henry

Saying Goodbye

2017-12-10

This week was a sad one for our family: we said goodbye to Great-grandma Dorothy, who died on Thursday. She was 95 years old. Daddy made a page with some of our favorite pictures of me and Dorothy, which you can find here. There is also a link to the page in the archive.

Even though we are sad and missing Dorothy, we still had a full week of school and things to do.

Lilei was with us Tuesday after school, and we went to the rec center. And Mommy had to deliver some of the Tiny Spoons holiday orders.

Doing some coloring at the desk.

Some of the cookie boxes Mommy delivered this week.

On Friday we went to see the Holiday Train! This year we stayed for the whole concert, and I sang along with some of the Christmas songs I learned in music class.

Waiting for the Holiday Train with Alex.

Here comes the Holiday Train!

Watching Terri Clark sing from the Holiday Train stage. She wore a Santa Claus cowboy hat.

The train is too big to get into one picture!

Me, standing by the engine.

The Holiday Train leaving the station.

Saturday morning we got up really early to drive up to Freya's house. We went to the Santa Lucia festival. There was some confusion about when it started, but everything worked out all right in the end.

Freya, Kara and Josh at the Santa Lucia festival.

Being silly with Freya.

Theo and Jenny (that's his mommy).

Daddy, Josh, and Matt trying to sing in Swedish.

Me and Daddy with Josh and Freya.

Mommy and Theo.

Me with Audrey and Freya.

Daddy holding Theo.

After the festival, Daddy and I rode the light rail with Josh and Freya so we would be out of the way while Mommy and Kara packed cookie boxes for the Tiny Spoons show on Sunday. We rode a bus, then the train, to the Mall. We went to the Crayola Experience, had some lunch, and played on a little truck for a while. Then we went back to the house for supper and we watched Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer.

Riding the light rail.

Me and Freya at the Crayola Experience.

Melting crayons.

Would you believe we played on this car for 45 minutes?

Checking out a robot.

Sunday morning I went to church with Josh and Freya so Mommy, Daddy, and Kara could set up for the show. Daddy came back before lunch and then we went on an adventure to the zoo. We saw the baby tiger, the wolves, and went to the bird show.

The Tiny Spoons table at the show this weekend.

Grandma Gail, her cousin Mary, and Aunt Nancy at the Tiny Spoons show.

The wolves were active.

The missing lynx - I couldn't collect all the stamps.

At the bird show.

Gandalf the Great!

The snowy owl.

And that was my week. Take care everyone - winter is finally here!