The Weekend

The girls went to Wytheville this weekend while Lee and I went to see Rilo Kiley in Asheville. This is probably the last time they'll stay in Wytheville while Mom and Dad actually live there, so they were excited. Dad picked them up Friday afternoon, and they made it to Wytheville in time to go to dinner at their favorite Wytheville restaurant - Applebee's. Neither child was actually interested in talking to me while they were there, but Jenny did force herself to speak to me on the phone a couple times.

Their biggest excitement while they were there was going to see the new Disney movie that stars The Rock. Jenny is just calling the movie The Rock, instead of its actual title. Dad said they were very excited when he told them the movie choices and that was one. When they got back here on Sunday, I asked Reagan about it, and she told me the little girl in it was named "In." I thought that sounded wrong, and Dad couldn't remember what her name was, so we called Jenny in to find out what the girl's name was - it was "Peyton." So I guess Reagan got part of it.

Reagan was also happy because she got to sleep with Boo-boo. Mom told me that Reagan apparently woke up a couple times in the night to wake Mom up and ask for her water. She's so much fun to sleep with! Jenny and Dad were "downstairs," as the girls call the living room there. I mentioned to the girls that Mom and Dad's house in Wytheville doesn't have a downstairs, and Reagan just said, "Oh yeah. Just a hall." Mom said that both of them repeatedly referred to the living room as downstairs the whole time.

I asked Reagan if she missed us while she was gone. She had a long pause before saying, "Um . . . kind of." Then she said, "Well, I didn't really miss you, but I love you." Isn't she sweet?

After all that Wytheville fun, Dad brought the girls back early yesterday morning so we could go to the Dixie Classic Fair here. For the first time, it was just going to be me and the girls. Charlotte, Justin, Nicole - if you read this, I liked it much better when we all went together and I got to ride rides!

I told Jenny we could bring a friend since I had an extra ticket, so we picked up her friend Isabella on the way so that Jenny would have somebody to ride rides with her. The difficult part was that Isabella is taller than 48 inches, and Jenny is not quite 48 inches, so there was a lot that Isabella wanted to ride, but Jenny couldn't. Isabella had already been to the fair, so I was able to convince her to just ride things that Jenny could ride. They even went on one that Jenny was allowed to ride that flipped over several times, so Jenny went upside down. She's never scared of anything, so she was fine.

The other tough part this year was that I expected Reagan to ride the ferris wheel and nothing else, as usual. I tried to leave her at home, but she told me that she was already dressed for the fair, so she wanted to go. After the ferris wheel, she actually wanted to ride everything, so she kept getting mad that she wasn't tall enough to ride many of the rides. So then I had to talk Jenny and Isabella down to riding a couple things with Reagan.

Overall, they had a good time, but I have to admit that I was tired. I spent almost 4 hours at the fair as the only adult with 3 kids, and by the time we left, I was carrying 3 goldfish in bags, 2 little fish tanks, a large bag of kettle corn, a dolphin that Jenny had won, a snake that Isabella had won around my shoulders, and a smoothie that one of them couldn't carry because it was too cold - and trying to manage to hold Reagan's hand at the same time. It was definitely time to go home!