Saturday: Meemaw and Pawpaw are here!
I will do my best to post a day-to-day recap of Meemaw and Pawpaw's visit for all the interested parties, though I apologize if I may lag a bit -- we have been biz-zay and it will take the entirety of my Venti black iced tea to get me through all the pictures I need to post from the last four days.
Anywho, it all started on Saturday. Meemaw and Pawpaw's day began even earlier than ours -- they couldn't sleep for their excitement and began the drive from Indiana at 5 a.m. Despite their early start, we here in Delaware had few hours to kill until their arrival. The local orchard does U-Pick blackberries and raspberries on Saturdays for now, so I took the boys and we picked us a whole heap of juicy-fresh berries. They should have weighed Isaac before we went in:
I should have guessed that, for my picky eater, berries are tasty at the orchard, but less so at home. I think it's the appeal of getting to throw them on the ground when he's done, or rather, when he's taken one bite and another berry tempts his palate.
Meemaw and Pawpaw arrived at around 4 that afternoon, and after a long and tiresome drive were greeted at the door by a shrieking, vibrating Isaac who was so excited to see them that he could only speak in tongues for fifteen minutes. I was a little worried about how Jacob would take to them. I just started letting the babysitter hold him this past week and, according to him, she will definitely take some getting used to. I figured Jacob would be similarly fussy and intolerant of being held by Meemaw and Pawpaw, but that just is not so. He is all smiles and giggles and gooing for them, and even reaches to be held by them when they turn his way. For Meemaw and Pawpaw, then, I think the reception alone here at Casa de O'Neal was worth the drive.
This was the first time Meemaw and Pawpaw have seen our "new house," so we gave them the grand tour of the grounds, including Isaac's newly discovered "forest" under the dogwood tree in the back-a-yard.
And, after Pawpaw treated us to Applebees, we took them straight to our park.
Then it was home to play with the new bath toys and to read the new bedtime stories Meemaw brought, and all too soon our first day was over. Ah, but a whole week of days remained...
Anywho, it all started on Saturday. Meemaw and Pawpaw's day began even earlier than ours -- they couldn't sleep for their excitement and began the drive from Indiana at 5 a.m. Despite their early start, we here in Delaware had few hours to kill until their arrival. The local orchard does U-Pick blackberries and raspberries on Saturdays for now, so I took the boys and we picked us a whole heap of juicy-fresh berries. They should have weighed Isaac before we went in:
I should have guessed that, for my picky eater, berries are tasty at the orchard, but less so at home. I think it's the appeal of getting to throw them on the ground when he's done, or rather, when he's taken one bite and another berry tempts his palate.
Meemaw and Pawpaw arrived at around 4 that afternoon, and after a long and tiresome drive were greeted at the door by a shrieking, vibrating Isaac who was so excited to see them that he could only speak in tongues for fifteen minutes. I was a little worried about how Jacob would take to them. I just started letting the babysitter hold him this past week and, according to him, she will definitely take some getting used to. I figured Jacob would be similarly fussy and intolerant of being held by Meemaw and Pawpaw, but that just is not so. He is all smiles and giggles and gooing for them, and even reaches to be held by them when they turn his way. For Meemaw and Pawpaw, then, I think the reception alone here at Casa de O'Neal was worth the drive.
This was the first time Meemaw and Pawpaw have seen our "new house," so we gave them the grand tour of the grounds, including Isaac's newly discovered "forest" under the dogwood tree in the back-a-yard.
And, after Pawpaw treated us to Applebees, we took them straight to our park.
Then it was home to play with the new bath toys and to read the new bedtime stories Meemaw brought, and all too soon our first day was over. Ah, but a whole week of days remained...
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