Great Grandpa Helms

Anne's fever finally broke and she had a long nap this afternoon. She is sleeping in her bed tonight and hopefully I will be able to sleep too but can't sleep yet. Jamie spent the afternoon at Grandma's house with the cousins while I ran errands - like picking up medicine for Anne and going to the bank. We brought Great Grandpa Helms over for a quick visit and dinner since we haven't seen him all week and we couldn't take Anne out anywhere yet.

He told us about his post office supervisor night job. And I asked him what his favorite toy was when he was little. He said he could only remember a rector set - where you build things with motors like a windmill. He said by age 12/13 he was hunting and fishing all the time. He used to be a member of several rifle associations and took his shotgun to school and hunted a lot. Different times back then. He looked at our blog and James "counted" all our digital pictures for 2009 - over 8000! Good grief I'm addicted.