Family Blog ~ H.D. Edition

Meet Hyatt. Sometimes called H.D. (which I like to think is short for "Heavy Duty" but really its not). There are a lot of wee little ones in my family that I could write about, but for today, I want to write about Hyatt.

Hyatt will soon be celebrating his third birthday. He's growing like a weed. He was the first in a series of wee ones in a long time. Well...maybe not the first, but he was the first that lives close by, in fact, he lives just up the road from me.

Hyatt likes to come down to the house and feed my chickens. He likes for his Aunt Ida to ride him on the four-wheeler while mimicing "Woody Woodpecker" and he likes to fight with me. No real fighting though...because he could easily kick my butt!

He likes "ludlows" too. He always wants a ludlow when he stops by the house, so we try to keep a steady supply for him. What is a ludlow, you ask? Well, that is what H.D. calls popcycles. From this day forward I promise to always call them ludlows though.

Hyatt also likes to call me "Apooh". In the beginning it sounded a bit like "Abu" but I can only assume he decided I no longer reminded him of the monkey in the "Aladin" cartoon, so he changed it to "Apooh". That's fine by me. I've been "Apie" for a great many years and as much as I love my Apie nickname, I can handle another nickname as well.

Hyatt is still pretty little, so its hard to write about all the things he's doing or what he intends to accomplish, but I wanted to add a little light hearted fun to my family blogs and introduce one of the younger set in my bloodline.

Did I mention he is the Karaoke King?

We put 'em to work young in the Nunn family.

The other day I ran into Hyatt and his Mom at the local dollar store. H.D. proceeded to try to scare me with a Halloween spider...then talked me into buying two of them (which our dog Rosie, promptly stole one of them from my bag when I got home, so I guess now that one is her's) and some suckers (but I gave the suckers back to him before I left). There is an advantage to having a kid like him around...he can always tell you what you need, even when you don't know you need it.

Apparently, Hyatt is a little upset with me for moving to Richmond. His Mom said he wants to come down the road and hunt for me and gets sad when he discovers that I'm no longer there. Rest assured though, I will eventually get some ludlows for my apartment and then he can come up and visit any time he likes and eat all the ludlows (and play with my cats) as much as he wants.

Heavy Duty is always welcome at Apooh's crib. :-)