Wednesday January 25, 2012

 

 

Lunch With Jesse

Today, January 25

 

 

Our lunch was in The Meadows room at Oregon Dairy.

 

 

It was the quarterly Sauder Family lunch. The January lunch is usually the smallest, and today was no different, but that didn’t diminish the good fellowship. There were five people in our car, and Cerwin was the only one who could drive: Cerwin reaching for a menu, his mother (next to him) is 94 and no longer drives, next to him is Jesse who is four, you can see my red coat (I am not permitted to drive until all my tests are back), and across the table from me is our brother-in-law Mel, who had a serious fall several weeks ago and has to wear a neck brace.

Mel’s wife, Velda, had a slight heart attack last week and had a stent placed in a blocked blood vessel. She wasn’t feeling quite strong enough to come along. 

 

 

It was good Jesse’s milk came early, because he thought it took long for his pancake to arrive.

 

 

We gave him a pen and turned his placemat upside down so he could use his drawing skills.

 

 

 

 

He wanted me to take a closeup of it.

 

 

 

 

Next he asked me to take pictures of him.

 

 

 

 

Oh, those beautiful eyes.

 

 

Then we went out to the buffet area to watch the overhead train.

 

 

 

 

Yes, my pancake arrived!

 

 

He ate the whole thing.

 

 

It is only fitting that a restaurant called Oregon Dairy has dairy decorations.

 

 

 

Holstein light cover

 

 

He belly is full of pancake, so he spent some time checking on what was happening outside the window.

 

 

 

 

He was the official cart pusher when we got groceries, so it was also his job to put the cart away.

 

 

He reminded us several times today that he is four-and-a-half years old (officially he still has two months until he reaches that milestone.)

We told him that he is ninety years younger that his great-grandma who was with us at lunch today as she is ninety-four-and-a-half.