Ellis Giles

Wednesday night we all went to play at Mission Burritos which has become a favorite for Alden when we are in Houston during the week.  I gave Alden his Halloween costume which is a space suit with a helmet.  He loved it!  He wanted to sleep in it too.  To get him to take it [...]

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On Wednesday this week, I met MH, Alden, Meredith, and Grand D. at Mission Burrito for dinner.  Alden was playing hard on the playset and slide and wanted me to come into his “house”.  I said hi and would after I ate (and eventually went down the slide there at Mission Burrito too!).  One little [...]

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On Friday the 30th Mary-Helen, Alden, Meredith and I had a lazy morning and made breakfast.  We met up with Grand D. and went down to the Houston Museum of Natural Science.  We met at the Houston house and then went from there.
We saw the Hubble 3-D Imax film, it was great!  Alden got a [...]

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Superbowl Sunday!  After going to see Sesame Street Live, Alden and I headed back to the house for the SuperBowl party.  We were hosting in our new kitchen!  When we arrived Oscar was just finishing up installing the stove.  We tested it and it worked!  Just in time to put the food in the oven.  [...]

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Thursday MH picked me up and we went home.  She had found a Thomas the Train Halloween costume for Alden, and gave it to him when we got home.  It has a plastic pail for the candy that looks like Thomas too!  Alden kept wanting to take the pail apart, it comes apart in half [...]

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On Thursday Alden and I played some in the morning.  We got some good time in.  Alden likes to type on my computer and say the letters.  He also wants to start “Filing papers”  Though they usually turn into a mess.  :-)  I left to go into a meeting Thursday afternoon.
Friday I made it home [...]

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Alden said he wanted to go to the county fair, and was walking around saying, “go to county fair”.   After a quick nap, we cheked where to go to the fair.  Unfortunately, when we checked how to get there, yesterday was the last day.  Shucks!  So, we started saying “go to the lake!”  And Alden [...]

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This weekend we moved Cas to a new Apartment.  I met up at the storage shed Cas got in Brenham and helped load.  After filling up four vehicles, we stopped for lunch at Chili’s to fuel up before heading into Houston.  We looked for Alden’s coloring of a Chili Pepper, but they had not hung [...]

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On Thursday, Alden, Grand D., and I saddled up and trekked to Burton to visit the Cadillac Museum.  It was a very nice drive.  We passed the thousands of antique shops that were all closed.  Darn, we were looking forward to buying that Armoir circa 1960.
When we made it to the museum it was closed!  [...]

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Alden went to story time on Wednesday with Grand D.  A photographer for the Brenham Banner came by and took his picture with Miss Lou-Lou and said Alden might be on the front of the paper.  Grandma Rowlett called Thursday afternoon and said guess who’s on the front page?  Alden!  Famous at only 2 years old!
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