Saturday, January 06, 2007

Jeff and Kennie Pepper

Jeff is 6 years and Kennie Pepper is 6 months. They love each other. Jeff is much more mellow, Kennie is FULL of pepper energy. They snuggle, they have stealth wrestling events, they are painfully cute on their own, but together it is almost too much.

Mamo got Jeff a really nifty soft sherpa case to fly in. He got familiar during a few trips to Muscatine, IA to visit Neil's parents. We take Jeff everywhere. He came on our 5 week road trip from NY to OR and camped with us. I can't imagine not having him, but Neil and my mom have made a serious case for leaving him with her in Milwaukee until we are ready. I got really teary, but I know it is best for him. He's got all his favorite spots in her little home and he and Kennie do love each other. And the caretaking that we thought was so firmly set up, doesn't seem to be going how we'd thought. A tipi no one has ever lived in the winter, that is not set up, that was not used out here by the Native Americans - for an unknown length of time...