Frankly, when Kasey asked if I was available to take three-year-old Jayvyn for a day, I was frightened.  He's one of those children who does the silliest things to make adults laugh, but he's also a child who is very dramatic if he doesn't get what he wants.  What was I going to do with him for an entire day?

Turns out, the answer was at Linden Hills in Minneapolis, Minnesota where we started the day by crawling on rocks at the shore of Lake Harriet.  We collected feathers and threw dandelions into the lake.

From there we took a break at Dunn Brothers where Jayvyn helped roast coffee beans.  He loves grinding coffee in an antique grinder I have at my place.  One time, when we were in the grocery store, he saw rows of whole beans in their plastic dispensers and he yelled, "Hey!  How do you work these things?  Can I have a quarter?"  Hmmm.  Coffee beans dispensed like gumballs.  Now, there's an idea.

We headed back to Lake Harriet and caught a ride on the trolley, then went back to my place for lunch and  to watch the movie, Bambi, which he was sure he wasn't going to like, but did.

Toward the end the day we entertained ourselves by throwing those helicopter-like seeds from the balcony and watching them twirl and spin to the ground.  We polished off the evening with a light supper at Houlihan's, where he wore his cloth napkin like a cape on his back, then came home and fell asleep to the movie, Shrek.  That's our boy!