Several Soll-family members went down like a bunch of Dominos, this Spring break: Aubs with her tonsils and a longer-than-anticipated road back to her girlie voice; Hunter and Chloe inflicted with some bizarre virus that delayed their arrival; an ailing Great Grandmother; and ultimately, two daddies... Christian with weird fevers and Bri with calamari-related food poisoning, we think. Jeesh. I suggest that we go back to the days of old and rent a condo on the Gulf, where germs seem to be non-existent???
Yesterday, we finally met Christian to gather our distant, germy-but-adorable Grands for a shorter-than-anticipated stay. Hey, we'll take what we can get! Furthermore, we're notorious for cramming a lot into a day.
And so....
And so....
We'd already had a diner breakfast of pancakes and bacon, when we hit the Goshen florist for a quick errand. Check out the time on the steeple clock... the kids allowed me a minute to snap the pretty view, but they were happy to arrive "home" to an official start of playtime.
After an active workout and a "late night" till 9:00 p.m. (musical kids love IDOL), they were quick to fall asleep and rarin' to go again, this morning. To digress... one of Joe's and my favorite things to do when Brian and Christian were growing up was to pretend we were asleep, as we listened to their morning exchanges. They'd go into their bathroom with the double sinks, only to engage in really neat exchanges that we could hear through shared walls. Precious. And so, I let the KidGrands do their 6:00 a.m. artwork, as I secretly listened. Hunter usually supervises this part of the day, but in a role reversal, Chloe knew exactly what the drawing was to depict:
"This is a tank of water, Hunter, and the waterfall is here. It's under the sea,
and the octopus is like the Nemo one," etc., etc.
and the octopus is like the Nemo one," etc., etc.
"That's a really good idea, Chloe, and it's okay for this one to be for G'ma and G'pa; we'll do another one
for Mommy and Daddy," responded Big Bro, as he added his hot air balloon, turtle, and lovin'.
for Mommy and Daddy," responded Big Bro, as he added his hot air balloon, turtle, and lovin'.
Top Of The Mornin' to y'all. Back to the laughter in the house, our first twenty-four hours successful.
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