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.