Got Ice Cream? - Leif in Japan - May 1982 - Age 7

Who doesn't like ice cream? Leif always did, from that very first ice cream cone back in Manhattan, Kansas that I posted months ago, to the love of Haagen Dazs Butter Pecan that he asked us to bring to him after he had his motor cycle accident. He could eat a whole pint at a sitting if he let himself, though that wasn't a good idea for his weight.

But back in Japan when he was seven years old there was no worry about that. He could just enjoy slurping it up.

Leif's First Ice Cream Cone - June 1976

Sometimes, happiness is as simple as an ice cream cone, at least for awhile, and at least when you're a child. These photos are of Leif eating his first ice cream cone, in our back yard at the old stone house in Kansas. It was a hot June day, like it was here today, and we had a picnic out under the oak trees.

Leif loved the ice cream cone! What a little cutie he was, at about 17 months of age.