fun with Granddaddy

The highlight of today was a visit to Granddaddy (along with Uncle Michael, Caedmon, and Mirella). We all enjoyed chatting with Granddaddy and he enjoyed visiting with all his great grandkids, watching them play, and reading them books. It was a day full of smiles and laughter, hugs, and joy. Hard to beat that.

We lunched at Chick-Fil-A and turned the kids loose in the indoor playground, and when it was time to go, Dennis burst into BIG tears. He gave hugs to his cousins (reluctantly, because giving hugs means they have to go, so he usually resists), and when we got a mile down the interstate, he started crying big time, wails, tears, snot, the works! He whimpered sadly "I didn't want Caedmon and Mirella to go!". He had a hard time pulling himself together, but he managed. We took him to Dick's Sporting Goods where he learned a new fun trick: going up the Down escalator (hilarious, sure, and fun, but I was afraid he'd hurt himself, so I found that I had to go part way up the down escalator as well). Back in the car, he remembered that his Daddy had bought him some Peeps this morning after his doctor's appointment (we are waiting on some test results on that score, but he seems fine), and had packed them in his lunch box and sent them along with us. He asked for some, and I complied, and soon we heard from the back seat "hey, this Peep can't see anything!" and I looked back to see that he'd eaten the eyes off of it. We all laughed, and soon we heard "and THIS Peep can't think" and it was because he'd eaten the top of the head ("where his brain is"), and then one couldn't talk... It was Peep torment day! And it was a LONG day. Dennis barely made it through church and asked "hey, why don't we put our pajamas on?" as soon as we walked in the door. I read him the excerpts of his choice from the Lego catalog and the Transformer story of his choice, and he fell asleep quickly and easily. What a wonderful day!