TT's House Now!

TT and Sam share their special place with me for the first time

Yesterday I picked Sam up from daycare and strapped him into his car seat and he asked where we were going.

"Home," I said as I lowered myself into my seat. "Our house."

"Nooooooooooo!" he said. "I want TT's house."

"We're going to our house. Mommy's house. Sammy's house."

"I want TT's house. I miss TT," he said, kicking the back of the passenger seat.

"TT lives far away. It would take us all night to get there."

"Then drive faster Mommy. I want TT's house NOW!"

Sam and TT laugh while making apple pies.

It's really no surprise that his first day back to his routine after a weekend with TT might be a little disappointing. After all, during his two days with TT he fed ducks and geese at the Wildlife Santuary, rode a train and a merry-go-round with Mommy at Bay Beach Amusement park, drove a racecar and a purple train and a green boat, flew up and down in an airplane with a fantastic gun at the front, took a trip to Wal-mart (and came home to tell Mommy about the big mess the diggers had made in the parking lot. "Bad, messy diggers!"), ate steak and blueberries and lime popsicles, played guitar and danced to his new Wiggles CD, blew big bubbles in the backyard, picked flowers from the neighbors garden, made an apple pie with TT and helped Mommy and TT vacuum and dust. (Yes, we let him hold and spray the windex bottle.)

It rained almost all weekend, but none of us cared. We all had a great time. As we were getting ready to leave on Sunday TT sighed and pointed out that she hadn't planted her basil in pots yet, and I said that I didn't dig up any of the perennials I had planned to. "Well we didn't accomplish much this weekend, did we?" she said. And I told her that we all had a lot of fun together, and that was all that was important.

Sam is an old pro at feeding the geese at the Wildlife Sanctuary.

All done!

Riding the train at Bay Beach

DRIVING a train at Bay Beach

Mommy wasn't sure he would like the up and down of the airplane, but Sam saw the guns and insisted.

Driving a boat

"I want orange ladybug, Mommy!"

Sam puts the finishing touches on his little apple pie.