Archie's

Last week we made the long trek to visit Archie.  Archie is my Dad's mom, and the kids' great grandmother.  She is 92 years old. 

I was incredibly nervous about how the kids would do on a 6.5 hour drive.  As it turned out there was a ridiculous 20 mile stretch of construction which coupled with enough potty breaks for a newly potty trained red head we all know and love made for 9.5 hour drive. 

The kids did AWESOME!  I am not sure Pappy...recently renamed Pap (by that same red head) would agree with my assessment, but all in all, they did really well.  Brian has entered the "are we there yet?" stage and of course there were the many, many potty breaks, but there were no tears and minimal complaining, so I would say they did pretty great!

In addition to Archie, we got to see (great) Aunt Beth, (great) Aunt Sarah and Uncle Mike, my cousins Andrew and Matt and my mom's cousins Tom and Ann.  The kids adjusted so well and interacted with everyone as if they see them all time...which isn't the case at all, it had been just over two years. 

We spent quite a bit of time at a local park and the kids had a BLAST playing with Andrew.  He was so great with them and they ate it up! 

The ride home was much shorter (THANK THE LORD) and the kids did well.  Lilah fell asleep not far from home, so we had to deal with one potty accident, but one isn't bad.  We even drove under the Blue Angels performing!  Brian was super intrigued!

To say that Archie enjoyed Lilah would be the understatement of the century.

Brian and Archie got along too.  He is showing her a story he wrote in the car.

He is attempting to show off his missing tooth in this picture.

Mom's cousin Ann reading a story to the kiddos.  They adored her!

 

Pappy couldn't figure out how yogurt got all over his pants!

Had to do this for Cynthia :)

Doesn't she look ginormous in this pic?

Lilah kissing Archie's rear.

Archie's reaction to the rear kissing.