James' new nemesis

We went camping at Foy Lake for a couple of nights. The first night there, James tripped and his hands landed in the firepit. He had a pretty good burn on the palm and fingers of his left hand. After a lousy night's sleep, trying to keep an ice pack on his hand, he seemed fine the next day. However, he refused to go anywhere near the fire. If he wanted to go from one side to the other of our camping area he chose to go behind both the Suburban and the truck and come in the other side from the behind the chairs/people.

At one point, I was helping him get his supper and I put his plate on the table and got the cooler for him to sit on. I called him to me so I could get him eating and he cried,'No, Mom! Don't throw me in the fire!' I'm not sure what he thinks I was trying to do. Should I be insulted? I began to think he thought I was the wicked witch from Hansel and Gretel....:/

Later that evening we were sitting around the fire singing together and he wanted to be wrapped in his blanket and held. I told him to come to me and I held up his blanket so he could be wrapped. He accused me of trying to throw his blanket in the fire! 

I think he learned a valuable lesson about being careful with fire. But I hope he gets over the idea that I'm trying to throw people and things inTO the fire!

Curtis's new favorite

This is a French Butter dish or a 'butter bell'.
We first saw one at Aunt Michele's house and dad was intrigued by it.
We went to Bluff for Easter and while we were browsing in the visitor center/gift shop dad saw this on the shelf and decided to splurge on it.
We love real 'buttah' at our house and it needs to be at room temp for spreadability. So we used to put it on a small plate and kept it in the cupboard to keep it sort of clean and keep the cats out if it. Nothing like going to put some butter on your toast and seeing tongue grooves on the butter. Yuck!
Dad didn't like that it taking up so much space in the cupboard so decided he needed this tool. You put your butter in the top portion, put a bit if cold water in the bottom part and it keeps your butter at room temp and the water seals it for freshness. Pretty cool. (It holds 2+sticks of   butter!)