We went to Newton yesterday after not seeing the grands for about 5 weeks—too long! When we pulled in the driveway I saw the back of Eleanor announcing our arrival to her mom, so excited. Henry ran and threw his little arms around me.
The kids loved their st Patrick’s day gifts, TY lambs named Mary for the boys and an Elsa for Eleanor. She loved it! She said Thank you, dammaw repeatedly, hugged Elsa and said, I love her. The boys discovered their lamb has the same birthday as Henry.
I played with Eleanor most of the day because Scott came along. We did slide down the nugget slide on the stairs and played a whole family game of monopoly discover. We piled in the cars to go bowling and ended up at Brahms having ice cream as there were no lanes available. Leah and I went shopping downtown just the two of us.
Eleanor and I played with the dollhouse, she had the rabbits talk to each other, put the baby in the mamas arms in the rocking chair, and set up a picnic for them in the front of the house. We changed her dress several times and danced to Let it Go. We also went for a little walk, just the two of us. She fell at one point and cried hard and let me hold her. I actually got a lot of little snuggles and hugs from both Eleanor and Henry. Eleanor said I love you to me repeatedly.
Henry cried when we were getting ready to leave and said he was sad grandma was leaving. I was feeling sad too. it’s so crazy to love people so so much.
Here is the only picture I took: Henry pretending to drive taken through the windshield.
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