As many of you know Brylee spent the week with T-ma & Poppy recently. Since we knew it would be some time before we had the chance to play & have a good time we centered everything & everyday around her. Here are a few things we did that week: Saturday: Went to Ham & Eggs to have breakfast with Jennifer & Cary before they started on their long road trip. After the tearful goodbyes we started to get thing ready for the day. Sarah (a friend's daughter from the fire dept. Sarah is very special to us & we love her!) came over to bring us our Girl Scout Cookies. She played with Brylee & even read a book to her. She was wonderful with Brylee & she enjoyed the time. We went shopping for some cooler clothes since she had winter clothes but we are in Texas & the weather was going to be in the 70's most of the week. We played at the Vista Ridge play area & the a couple older girls wanted to play with her. We stopped to play in the Mom's Lounge, for just a minute. Since this area had no one in it & she could enjoy herself. Went to the grocery store. Read with Poppy. Sunday: Enjoyed breakfast & tried to feed self. Of course we shared our orange juice with her. Played with Giggles on the computer. Went to the Grapevine Mall & played on the interactive screen. The interactive screen had scenes of balloons, cocoa with marshmallows, peacocks plus 4 more. This took up about 20 minutes as we entered the mall & as we left. We went to Build a Bear where she did not care about a stuffed animal but wanted to run out in the mall & be free. Now once we picked a bear & started the process she was okay except the stuffing of the bear. The special reason for going to Build a Bear is so Bryan & I could record a special message for her. The message was "Go Brylee, Go Brylee, Go Brylee, T-ma loves you!" then Bryan recorded "Remember Poppy loves you too!" We wanted a special outfit for it & found the best one, a Stars Player uniform. Perfect. We had the chance to Skype with her mommy & daddy that evening. Monday: Poppy & I took her to her last Mother Goose Time at the library. Not only was it due to the move but the class is for up to 15 months old & she just turned 15 months old. We went to the mall & played in the play area for a little while.
Playing around the house & chasing each other around the house. Tuesday: We, including Poppy, went to the big girl class of Toddler Time. She was not impressed with it because there was no parachute time. But she did try to participate the best she could. We ran an errand to Tom Thumb to pick up the Turkey steaks & she got an Elmo "boon" Amy dropped by to deliver more Girl Scout cookies & to see Brylee 1 last time before she moved to Maine. Went to Fry's to pick up some monitor screens for Poppy's Corporate office. Ran around the house with a picture of Chester. I had to take it away from her a few days later when she started eating the paper.
Was playing Giggles & sneezed this time she hit the table across the bridge of her nose. BIG OUCH!!!!!! Poppy & T-ma taught her the Super Chicken song & yes she is still going around saying it. Wednesday: Went to the Play Area @ Vista Ridge Mall. Ate spaghetti be herself. A little messy but she ate & feed herself. Played with the instruments that we have in the Study. Lots of singing & dancing going on. Thursday: This was a quite day. Played with her jewelry & a lot of Valley girl talk going on. Reading of books. Playing with Giggles. Chasing and being chased around the house.
On Friday I woke up @ 1:45 going through a check list in my head, did I have everything for Brylee packed? Did I pack everything I needed? Do I have the animals cared for while we are gone? So I finally got up @ 2:15 & Brylee got up at 2:30. So we started getting everything around & a good friend Jeff came @ 5:30 to drive us to the airport so we could take Brylee to her new home. The week was the best I have had in years. I LOVED reading to Brylee. To play with the jewelry & talk "Valley Girl" with her. Chasing her & she chasing me around the house. Bryan & I teaching her Super Chicken theme & 123 UGH! Getting the instruments down & enjoying the time to play, sing & dance.I did notice that she began to get clingy earlier in the week. This could be good or bad.
I had always hoped & dreamed that being a grandmother would be a lot like this. I want all of Brylee's visits either living close or far away to be just like this....FUN!!!. Looking forward to our next visit!!
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