Back to normal

My sister and nephews left Thursday morning. I actually managed to not bawl my head off the night before as I said goodbye. I DID stop by again on my way to work though! I snuggled on Griff and hugged my sis goodbye, but Koen wasn't up yet. That was probably a good thing because he is more sensitive and I wouldn't want to upset him with a quick hello and goodbye. Here are a few of the playhouse pics that I promised. Tobin did such a great job with this little house that it had to make the journey back to AL. Koen would carry all of his important things in there (brown bear, pink bear, lion, squirrel...) and then want me to tickle him like crazy! If I tried to leave the playhouse, he would physically try to push me back in! It was great fun! Koen and Griffin even had some peek-a-boo style interaction.

>
Tobin is going hunting again , so we had "date night" tonight. We got Pasta Express take-out and he drove us to a park near our house. He had blankets all ready in the truck and we had a little picnic. We planned to do our normal "listen to music-get a frappuccino-I read scrapbook mags-he reads hunting mags" thing at Borders, but we ended up at Bass Pro. Go figure...LOL. It was a nice quiet evening together until he bought a turkey call and practiced all the way home!!!




I spent every evening at my mom's for two weeks playing with them. I won't see them again until Thanksgiving Break. Mom drove down with them and returns this Sunday. Someone always flies down there and journeys back and forth with Mel. It would be difficult to do with two boys in car seats on a 12 hour ride! There is always a DVD to switch out, diapers to change, snacks or juice requests to meet, and so on.
I am in withdrawal mode for now, but I will get used to their absence soon, I guess.