nancy and green-mama

cope's great aunt nancy and great grandmother came to visit last weekend. we went to dale's essenhaus, this cute little burger joint/beirgarten in walburg, tx, just up the road. cope could of course care less about the genuine texas music and people two-stepping, but LOVED all the rocks and the playscape. we even got greenmama on a zip line! not bad for being 80 years old.

cope did great with "nancy" but grandmama turned into "green-mama", which, needless to say, grandmama didn't mind a bit. there was a little bit of spoiling going on, with nancy bringing him a supergenius talking elmo and then a trip to target with new "base-bock" toys (that's sand box in cope speak), and a slew of new thomas trains. his favorite was "bill-ben", two twin trains named bill and ben. cope doesn't make the distinction between them, he just calls them both bill-ben. i wasn't sure if he was going to give up the box to be scanned by the lady working, but he eventually handed it over for 2.5 seconds. it was a great visit and cope really enjoyed spending time with his family.