Trip to Mema's Yesterday

Yesterday morning, Mimi and Dustin came over to Collin's house to load up in the car for the 2-hour ride to Mema's house. It was MLK day so school was closed and it had been too long since the last time we saw her. Dustin and Mimi were great at entertaining Collin on the way there and that was a HUGE help to Mommy. When we arrived, Samatha, Collin's 5-year old cousin, ran out to greet Collin. Apparently, she had been excited about seeing Collin for the last 3 days and could not wait to see him. Samantha and her two older brothers, Brian and Joey, live with their mom at Mema's house. Dustin was happy that his older cousins were there and even more happy that they had a Wii to play with. It took about 15 minutes for Collin to warm up to Samantha's enthusiasm, but once he did, they were inseparable. He followed her around and wanted to do everything she did including eat when she did and climb on all of the furniture if she did. When she had to go potty, he followed her in there and did not understand what she meant by she needed her privacy. He stood there anyway. They played outside for a little while with the balls, climbed on some of the farm equipment and pet the donkeys. He was not fond of the big dogs but did eventually pet them later in the day. That's HUGE since he typically screams whenever he sees a dog (cat, bird....no matter the size).

Later in the afternoon, Samatha came running back to her room where most of us were to tell us that someone was there. To our surprise, Lisa and Timmy showed up. We were all happy to see them, especially Collin.

We ended up staying at Mema's for about 7 hours before heading home. Collin did not take a nap so I expected that he would sleep most of the way home, which he did. He stayed up for about an hour after getting home and then went to bed with no problem. He slept until his usual time of past 7am. Whew! I was hoping he would not wake up too early. I needed some rest too.