April 10, 2011

Sunday:

This morning before we left Gigi and Papa's house, we died Easter eggs. Liam had a blast while he sat in my lap, stirring each egg in it's colored cup. He was so intent on watching them, and I think he was captivated by the white eggs immersing in colored water and coming out pink, green, yellow, orange and blue. He loved it. Of course, he was very neat and clean about it all, and I was the one to spill the blue color all over his and my leg. I'm glad he didn't get my clumsiness.




I think Liam has learned that even though we leave Gigi and Papa's house, we will see them again. There was no fit, just hugs, kisses and love before we shut the door and headed down the drive, as he said, "We see Gigi Papa again." I'm glad he's got this down, I know it saves him a lot of tears and no one's heart has to ache when the concept of 'goodbye' isn't understood.

He was so amazing all weekend. Even the ride home. He napped for a little over half the trip, then when we got outside of Waco, he woke, then we went to stop at the rest stop in Salado to use the bathroom. He was great about going potty, and then hopped back in his car seat, ate a granola bar, part of a banana and some apple, and by the time he was threw with all the snacking, we were home. I was sure to give him a whole bag of no-cry treats when we got home because he was so good and he because he helped up bring in all the stuff from the car and put it away.

Tonight he also had the enjoyment of banking coins that Gigi and Papa gave him. I told him to first put the quarters in Annabelle's bank, and all the rest, which was ten dollars worth of nickels, dimes, and pennies, in his bank. After the nickles and dimes and nickles and halfway through the pennies, he was done and lost interest for the evening. We put the rest of coins in a plastic egg for him to do another day. It was nice when bedtime rolled around to get back to brushing teeth and reading story in his bed. We read Squawk to the Moon Little Goose and said prayers, said our little pumpkin rhyme, kissed and hugged and then went to bed. He did get up to ask for the Yahtzee game Papa let him have, which silly me, I forgot to make sure it was with his entourage. He got up after that he got up to ask for his flash light, which was lost, so instead of going it a fit of 'I don't know where it is' or an all night search for it, Liam and I decided that Dog, Beeboo, and Yahtzee were enough. He is also still wearing his Spongebob Square Pants band-aid that he's had on his leg all day, and possibly since yesterday. Too funny.