Kep-uck and Dups

Hi Everybody! Sorry it's been so long since I wrote last. We were on vacation and then we got a new addition to the family so I've been a bit busy. Let me first tell you about my vacation. Mommy and Daddy drove me down to Kiawah Island where my Grammie and Poppy rented a house for a week. My Uncle Ben and the Greats were there too! (The Greats are my great-grandmas) We had an awesome time. At first, I was a bit afraid of the ocean ("osa"). But by the second day, I was up to my waist and rolling around in the sand. I never did like to put my feet in the sand when we first got there each morning...but I got used to it a few minutes later.

The island was incredibly beautiful and Mommy's main goal while there was to see an alligator. She saw tons!!! Mostly on her runs with Daddy, but I'll get to that in a minute. The houses on this island were insanely huge and ridiculously expensive. I wish you could all see the monstrous houses there. Insane. I got to ride in a cool trailer attached to the bikes they rented...so instead of driving the mile to beach each day, I just sat in my own trailer. It was great...UNTIL...on the third day. Mommy was getting me out of my trailer and the bike flipped over causing the trailer "connector" to crush my Mommy's foot. She let out a big yelp and she did actually cry too. Luckily, Poppy saw it from the porch and he ran over to help get me rinsed off and into the house. Mommy's foot turned a neat shade of eggplant purple and blew up pretty good too. She didn't want to get x-rays even though it looked and felt broken. It stinks that she had to take a bunch of days off from running just when she was getting back into racing shape. But she ran yesterday and is slowly coming back....SLOWLY.

I am such a huge fan of kep-uck these days. I love adding it (ketchup) to all my favorite foods and I even asked for it the other day when Mommy forgot to get it out of the fridge. It counts as a vegetable, right? Mommy hopes so. : ) I also like to get dups as treats. Dups or dips is the word I use for "chips" but it's still hard for me to say it.

At the beach, I got to eat kettle corn out of bag that my Nonny was holding...and my GG read me lots of books and let me eat the raisins out of her Raisin Bran cereal. How nice is that! I think my Uncle Ben is sleeping a lot these days since the trip. He played a lot with me and I know that he got pretty tired, pretty quickly. Grammie and Poppy were so fun. I got prizes for the beach and spent so much time with them. They took me to fun events around the island and cuddled me as much as I'd let them! I can tell they love me a lot.

My Grandma and Grandpa are coming to visit me this weekend. I can't wait!!! I am gonna show off how smart I am and all the sign language things I've been learning. They will be amazed. : ) We're gonna eat mac-n-cheese peepa at Cici's! Hooray!

Love, TJ the tannest pale little man ever