Home Again, Home Again

The last night of our vacation was spent at my sister's house. Mom droped us off Friday morning since Eric had taken our van home with him when he left Tuesday. Mom was able to fit three carseats, two baby beds, a swing, our large suitcase, assorted things that acumulate while traveling as well as several bags of clothes she had to drop of for donation all in her car. Once we buckled the kids in and wedged ourselves into the front we were off. It is a little over an hour from mom and dad's to Rachel's and the kids did really well!

Once we arived at Rachel's and unloaded all our junk Micah ran right for the tractor. Rachel's little boy has a pedal tractor with a trailer that can be hooked up behind it. He hardly moved off that tractor the whole time we were there. There were a couple of times he got off the seat and climbed into the trailer but he spent a lot of time "driving". One of the times he was sitting in the trailer, there was no one sitting on the tractor and he wanted to be pulled so he reached his hand up to the tractor's rear wheel and started pushing it himself.


Here he tries to get uncle Abu to hook the trailer up so he can pull it. Abu spends the week with Rachel because she lives closer to where he goes to school. He typicaly heads home after school Friday but ended up spending a couple hours with us before leaving. He is going far, far away to college in the fall so he will not be home as much after this summer, I hope we get to see him as much as possible before he moves away.

Grace and R wore themselvs out running around taking toys away from eachother. Grace takes Micah's toys all the time at home so she felt like she should continue that by taking R's toys as well. Poor R, he does not have a sister that takes his things so he had a hard time defending himself. I think we are going to have to work on sharing! Rachel let them watch a couple episodes of a kid's show before bed and they could hardly stay awake to finish! We put them to bed a little after 7pm, partly because they were so tired but also because we needed a break from all the chaos!

I think Grace and Micah had a lot of fun and they are both talking about the people we saw and things we did last week. Micah asks for R's tractor or trailer at least once per day and Grace says something about either my mom or grandma every day. I'm glad we got to go spend time with some of my family. Now, Grace would like to say a few words about the fun she had:

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