Road trip

Care Bear had a fun road trip this weekend. We dropped Dada off in Toledo on Monday morning after having stayed the night at the hotel with him. It was neat to be back in Perrysburg, a hop-skip-jump from our apartment there. Our dialogue with Carrie Sunday night went like this:

Do you want to go swimming?
*nod*
Do you know what swimming even is?
*nod*
Do you want to go play in the big, big tubby?
*nod*
So we get her all ready, blow up the floatie toy, etc. and go to the pool. While Dada hunts for towels, she sits in a pool chair, surveying the millions of kids & chaperones in the family pool.
Do you want to go swimming?
*shakes head*
What?! You don't want to play with all the other kids?
*shakes head*
You don't want to play in the big, big tubby and go swimming?
*shakes head*
Well, we're going!
So we hop in and she complains the whole time, more quietly towards the end. Didn't want anything to do with her floatie, wouldn't let go of me... looked like a koala bear on a tree. We get back out and she holds on to the pool chair and shivers all over. So pitiful!

So we left Dada there to his presentations and poker games while we road tripped to Butler, PA to stay with my parents. They babysat so that I got to meet up with Mary Alice at the Grove City outlets for the usual Monday meeting ;) Yippie! It was sooooooo good to see you, MAS. Sorry I missed you, Amy. Hope you had a super birthday! 29 and holding from here on out! ;)

Tuesday brought Nana and Pap Pap over (my mom's parents- they live in New Castle, PA) and that evening Andrew (my brother) and Megan (his sweet fiancee) made an appearance. We had LOTS of pizza. O=D Was really good to see so much family in one trip. Everyone had a good time w/ Carrie and her dominoes and blocks. She's quite the entertainer.

The roads got icky Wednesday, so Lisa and Bob couldn't visit until Thursday night. Carrie and Bob sniffed lots of tea bags (my parents have a plethora of different teas!) and she opened my birthday present from my Lisa. She had a great time taking the nail polishes out of the box, arranging them onto the coffee table, replacing them into the box, and repeating the above steps. I think Bob really got a kick out of her. =D

We left first thing Friday morning to head back to Toledo and collect Dada. We had lunch at the OI cafeteria and, of course, she had to run some laps around the room and socialize. I bet they'll talk about her all next week. The cafeteria ladies especially were pleased with her! We had lunch w/ our good friend Theresa who was a project engineer there w/ Scott. She's since moved to California and then to the Winston-Salem plant. She's a busy girl! She was amazed to see Carrie and to see how much our Care Bear can DO now. She is such a climber- checking out chairs and couches and anything remotely stable (and sometimes not!)

We got home last night around 7 CST and popped her into the tub. She slept great in her own bed (so did we!) and is running all over the house today, (she's in the vertical blinds right now), and causing chaos ;)

Enough talking- I know what you really want to see are the pictures ;) Let me go load 'em up! Have a snuggly weekend! It's chilly out there!