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It was so exciting, taking Rei to Six Flas for the first time. I still remember his momma’s first trip there, and his aunt Junie’s. I told Chrissy that I would be a little old lady walking around Six Flags with Rei’s kid’s for their first trip too.

He loved every minute of it. I knew he would, He is his momma’s boy after all. This is a picture of his first ride on the merry-go-round. he was giggling and ooh-ing and ahh-ing the whole ride. He loved it. I am lookng forward to many more trips to six flags with him. I

I can’t believe that I’ve not written about my weekend with Rei. I have been pretty busy this week, but I really wanted to write about it, because it was special, and I want to be able to read back on it later.

I took Chrissy to the airport on Saturday morning, and thus begun our weekend with Rei. He is pretty attached to his momma, so I was a little aprehensive about how he would do. I knew that he would be OK during the day, but it was at night that I was worried about. I should not have worried, he was such a little angel and he had so much fun hanging out with his mimi, papa and his missy (that is what he calls Tonya, his missy, it’s cute). June was over for the weekend as well and he loved all the attention he got from his aunt buoy too.

I let him sleep with me each of the nights, and he LOVED that. He loves trying to sneek upstairs to our bedroom, so it was such a treat for him to be able to spend whole nights in there. He is so cute to sleep with, he reminds me so much of Juney. He lays just like her and moves around like she did. He LOVES to cuddle and he would wake up in the middle of the night and whimper until you placed a hand on him. Once you did that, he would scootch over and cuddle up to you and fall back to sleep.

Sunday, we spent the day/evening at my mom and dad’s. My brother, SIL and the kids came out and we BBQd.. well sorta… we tried to BBQ but the grill started on fire (thank goodness for Tonya’s quick thinking in getting it out, that could have been a disaster) so we ended up cooking inside. The kids all had a blast playing together outside though. It was a beautiful day and we really enjoyed it. Rei went nuts over the bushel of peaches my grandfather had out. That boy can eat peaches like there is no tomorrow. My mom and gram were cracking up watching him. I ended up having to leave around 7:30ish to give him a bath, he was filthy. He was also so tired and fell asleep before we could get him up in bed. I went to bed with him, hehe, and had fun cuddling him.

It was cute on Monday morning, he woke up and I still had my eyes closed but I could hear him grunting so I looked to see wht he was doing. He had the TV remote in his hand and was pointing it at the TV pushing buttons and was getting mad cause it would not go on. I reached over and turned it on and he was so excited. He loves his cartoons in the morning!

I left him with Tonny when I went to pick Chrissy up from the airport and the look on his face when wwe got home and he saw her was priceless. He missed his mommy. But he enjoyed his weekend with us very much. Stephen says that part of it is that it was not a change for him. He was still in his home, with his toys, and his stuff and with people he sees every day. He loves us, and comes running whenever we get home from work, and so it was not a hardship for him. I know that he will not remember it, but I certainly will remember our special weekend with him. I just know that the next 8 months are going to fly by and when they move back to Virginia when Ian gets home, I am going to be heartbroken. I mean, it’s the way of life… but for now, I love having him.

I know that it will be just as hard on Sherry though. She came over on Monday too, and made us all a wonderful dinner and got to hang out with Chrissy and Rei all day. It was a great weekend all the way around.

This has been the longest week, and I am SO glad that it is Friday. I am really looking forward to the long weekend. We are watching Rei all weekend because Chrissy is going to Virginia to spend the weekend with Ian (did I mention that they are back together?). He leaves for a 8 month deployment next week, and she wanted to spend some time with him before he left. I am glad that she is getting this opportunity (did I mention how thrilled we all are that they are back together?). It will be fun spending that time with Rei too, he is such a good baby. I borrowed my mom’s bike stroller so that we can take Rei for bike rides, and if it’s nice out, I may take him over to Six Flags for a couple of hours. It will be his first time, but we have season passes so even if he doesn’t handle it well, we can just leave.

June is coming over for the weekend as well, and I am really looking forward to hearing all of her *high school* stories. She started high school this week, gosh where does the time go? I still look at her and picture her as a little little girl. Chrissy too though. Life just keeps moving and changing, all the time. Sometimes I just want to say… wait, stop.. I am not ready, lol.

The past couple of weeks, we (Chrissy, Tonya and I) have been making Jam. It all started because my grandparents gave us a half a bushell of peaches and after making peach cobbler, eating a bunch and freezing some, we still had tons, so we decided to make peach jam. It turned out AWESOME, so we made raspberry.. then raspberry peach, lol.. then blueberry and finally blackberry. It has been so yummy too.

Well, at christmas last year, Jen made us all hot pepper jelly and it was really so yummy (I never expected that I would like that, but I totally did) and the other day my grandpa gave us a ton of hot peppers, so we decided we would make hot pepper jelly. Yesterday Chrissy decided to go ahead and chop up the hot peppers and get them ready. No problem, right? Well, not so right. She didn’t wear gloves (oops) and so her fingers have been on fire for the past 24 hours. I feel so bad for her. We’ve tried everything including soaking her hands in milk but nothing is helping. We even called the poison control center today and they said that they get this question a lot, and to soak her hands in maalox. It’s starting to feel better now, but I bet she will never want to chop hot peppers again. We will all laugh about this later though (okay, I am laughing already!).

And the moral of this story? If you have the need to cut up hot peppers, wear gloves and be sure to have some maalox in the house… oh and if you can get someone else to cut the peppers up for you, all the better, giggle.

I’ve really been wanting to blog more about my cardmaking/scrapbooking for those friends who really are into that, but I’ve not wanted this blog to become about that, if that makes sense. So I started a new blog, Inky Smudges, which will be solely for crafty stuff. Feel free to stop by if/when you want. I’ve added the link to my blogroll here as well. Obviously, it is an empty canvas right now, but I hope that it will grow with time. We’ll see how it goes. And that does NOT mean that I will be posting any less here… maybe it will help me post more, since I will feel guilty about posting there if I’ve let this one slide. So maybe that is just an extra benefit.

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We picked up Rei’s pictures today, they are so beautiful. We also got some others that I have to scan, and can’t wait to share. They are period-type pictures and turned out so awesome. They did not give those to us on CD though, so I will have to scan them. We have a better scanner at work so I am going to wait and do it on Monday. Or maybe I will run to Walgreens, hmmmm.

It is the sound of silence, and it’s been a long time since I’ve heard it. The house is empty and quiet, Scott and Sharon picked up the kids last night, Sherry picked up June and her friend Victoria (who had been staying for the past 10 days) and even Rei left for a couple of days. He is spending some time with his dad, who is in for a visit before he leaves on a 7 month deployment. It was strange waking up for work this morning and not finding kids sprawled out all over the place. It will take a little bit to get used to it. I missed giving them all hugs and kisses before I went to bed last night too. It was nice to have them there. They really are all such great kids too. I have to say, Scott and Sharon certainly raise them right.

I think that Chrissy is planning on going out today too, to get out of the house and do something. She was such a big help over the past days with the kids, and with Rei gone for a few days, I am glad she is planning on doing something. It will be so good for her. But boy, we won’t know what to do with ourselves when we get home from work today. Well, after we put our house back together that is, hehe.