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A fun visit with my seestor’s family

Saturday, instead of my going up to my sister and brother-in-law’s home, they all drove down to see me for a few hours!

Take home message of this post: It was really, really great!

Some details:
The 50 min drive here apparently went well. My older niece (M) was apparently playing with my younger niece (S) by doing raspberries for about 20 minutes.

When they arrived, I heard something slam (must’ve been front doors of their vehicle), and I peeked out my window and saw that they had really arrived! I went outside, and when M saw me, she RAN at me with this HUGE smile on her face! I squatted down and she lunged into my arms; right before I lost my balance, I was able to put a hand on the ground behind me to keep from toppling over. It was really terrific. S also smiled at me with a big grin when she noticed me.

When we got to the pool at my apartment complex, we realized there was no one else there! Perfect!

A couple of sort of funny things about my pool are 1) I’d actually never been swimming in it and 2) once we were in it, it seemed a lot bigger than it did when I had just walked around it on an earlier visit.

We realized pretty quickly that M LOVES this pool. There is a ledge that goes all around one side of it that is a perfect height for her to bounce around on. S also LOVES the zero entry section. She crawled around with this huge smile on her face. She also had this huge grin when Texas Seestor carried her around in the water. The challenge with S is that she is so adventurous and curious that she leans forward suddenly and dumps her face into the water. Which is a bit of an eek moment! Oddly, she seems to know to hold her breath already.

So we all swam around, splashed, played with squirt toys, and dunked ourselves in the waterfall.

It was a whole lot of good, Texas, hot weather fun.

We went out to supper to a tex-mex restaurant that had yummy, homemade, puffy tortillas. During supper, M kept asking if we’d be going back to my apartment. We were wanting to make sure that they didn’t leave much later than 7:00ish so that they could get home in time for her bedtime, so we kept telling her “yes, for a little while.” She seemed okay with that. Once we realized there would be enough time, I told her that we could play playdough for a while too. I was feeling rather uncreative without the usual set of cookie cutters that we use at their house when playing playdough; I guess I’m going to have to get some cookie cutters! M didn’t care if I was creative or not creative, and we had a lot of fun.

I don’t have any pictures I can share with you for this visit, but I’ve got some others that I’ll post later from last weekend.

bye for now!