Crazy Times

Things have been crazy around here lately. First the sad news, then to the happy news. My Grandpa Kelly passed away on Sept. 29th and my Great Grandpa Len passed away on Oct. 12th. Mom has been trying to explain it to me, but all I know is that I don’t get to see them anymore. Mom and Dad, Grandma Lola and Kristie were having a hard time for a while, but we are all trying to get back to normal now.
The happy news is that the sad things brought all of the people we never see into our lives for a while. Mom said it is a blessing to have such a good family and nice friends. We are lucky. I met some uncles that I haven’t seen since before I could crawl. One uncle was from Texas and one was all the way from Germany. Sometimes he would talk to me and I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but it sounded cool.
Then last week another whole group showed up when Great Grandpa passed away. Jyllian, Cohl and their Mom and Dad all stayed in our house with us. Jyllian and I had so much fun. I even shared my toys. We were silly together and I loved copying her. Mom wishes that I would have copied her eating habits.
Kristie, Mom and I were going to Wisconsin to see Great Grandma Lynn in the hospital and we had a cool adventure. I had just finished eating my chicken mcnuggets when 2 deer came in the road and the car hit one. The car broke and the deer got really sick. I was scared at first because of the screaming and the loud noises, but I quickly found out that there were a lot of cool things about this situation. We got to hang out on the side of the road and watch cars go by. A policeman came to help us and he had his lights on. He was really nice and he called a tow truck (that’s like Mater from Cars if you don’t know) to help us move the broken car. Since we couldn’t ride in the broken car Mom and I got to ride in the tow truck. How cool is that?!? It was awesome. Kristie got to ride in the police car, which is also very cool.
They gave us a ride to the hotel which was right by where we crashed. Then Cousin Tim came and picked us up so we could sleep at his house. He’s a fireman! It just gets better and better.
The next morning we got up and got a car from the airport. Weird, right? Don’t you go to the airport to ride on planes? No, we got a car. It was a nice car though. But I didn’t see any planes. Not so sure that was an airport. So we drove to see Great Grandma Lynn in the hospital. She was getting ready to leave with Uncle John and Aunt Karen. So we hugged and then got in the car again. When we got to her house she had a hospital in her house. Well, not really. But it had all of the same things in her living room that they have in the hospital. A cool bed, a rolling table, tanks and tubes, all of that stuff. And a nurse came over. Great Grandma Lynn was in a good mood and she looked fine to me. We stayed for a little while and then started driving. Again. Now we are going to the reservation in the youpee. Our hotel was connected a building with a bunch of games where people sit and push buttons for a long time. I wanted to play too, but Mom said I was not allowed. So we went to the restaurant. Jyllian was there, yay! We ran around with Maddie and I got to play a real video game with Maddie. We raced cars. She won, but I did pretty good. Later Mom and Kristie swam with me, Jyllian and Maddie. It was really fun. Mom and I went back to the room. I watched some Diego and went to sleep.
The next morning we went to another party where we all had to be quiet and listen. There was a man in the front talking to us. He was nice and all, but I got bored. It didn’t last too long and we got to look around a little bit. Mom said I did pretty good.
We had a lunch and then we got in the car again. We stopped to see Great Grandma Lynn one more time and played cars with her and continued on our way home.
The next day we all went to the zoo. Jyllian and I shared a cool stroller and we got to see SO many animals. We really are very lucky.
I was sad to see everyone go, but my birthday is VERY soon and that will be lots of fun. I am having a Diego party with my friends one day, and the next day I get to go to Chuck E Cheese’s with Grandpa Mike (it’s his birthday the day before mine!), Grandma Peggy, Uncle Mark, Aunt Kelly, Grandma Lola and maybe Aunt Kristie too. Oh yeah, Mom and Dad will be there too.
Like Mom told me, we are very lucky.