Whirlwind Weekend

Being Gavin and Madi's grandparent always feels urgent, I get this great idea of what I would love to do with Gavin and Madi, and then feel this urgency to do it immediately, as we never know what tomorrow holds. This weekend was actually a fruition of plans made a week ago. Now for most this is so mundane and common, but for us this is a miracle, to plan something for more than one day ahead and have it all fall into place. Madi, Pop-Pop and I got to spend "Madi" time together; at the movies, lunch and back to our house for "Dizzy Dinosaurs", " Go Fish", Playing House and painting our finger and toe nails. We ended our day making blueberry muffins for Sunday brunch.

Today, Adam and the kids arrived first, with Karen to follow as she was out doing her new Photo Shooting, (a whole other blog to be done by a very proud mama). Since Gavi was in need of a nap as well as Daddy, they were able to do so. Which left Madi and I to do our thing. Madi and I spent some time looking at photo albums of pictures from when her Mommy was my little baby. This was so great, to watch face light up with amazement and to hear her own commentary on the pictures. We played our first game of Candy Land where she was able to follow the rules and play the game as it was made instead of her own inventions of the past. We have a closet that is filled with games and toys from when our girls were little. It is always a treat when we get to go into the closet and see if we can find a new toy or game that she is now old enough to play with. Today it was tiny, tiny legos, urghh, but the fun was in the dumping of them. We also attempted to watch KungFu Panda, which she has been asking to see since she saw the previews at her first movie she ever went to withMommy and Daddy. As we never got her there, we ran out to get it last night when we heard it was coming out on DVD. Guess what, it was too scary and she only could watch about 2 minutes of it. I don't blame her, from what we saw it was very odd for a kids movie, but then I thought "Finding Nemo" was atrocious for kids within the first three minutes, his mother and entire family is all wiped out. Anyway, everyone has left for the night all bundled in their PJ's. I got to hold Gavi for all of three minutes, but life is all good. Now it is just me and the silence as Jim is at the Eagles Game ( which is another whole post).