A Week Sans Dada

 Andrew had an industrial trade show to be at last week.  He had to be there the whole stinkin' time.  He left last Saturday night and got home Saturday by noonish shortly before Charlotte's birthday party. Sheesh! It was super important for him to be there and he did a lot of great stuff while he was there but boy, did we miss him. 

 Our first day as a temporary party of 3 was Sunday.  We went to Columbian Park Zoo. Watch out for that wallabee! Or should I say, "Watch out for those two kids!"

 We spent $4 for a train ride.  Pretty soon we'll be charged for a lot more things since Charlotte will be 3! We have to enjoy it while we can!

 We spent a lot of time on the playground. 

 It was such a beautiful day!

 Enjoy our day? We certainly did!

 My two little lemurs in the sun.

 Here are the lemurs on a tractor.


I took a bunch of Boomerangs of the kids that day and compiled them into a repeating video on Instagram.  It won't repeat on youtube unless you just hit play over and over again.  You are more than welcome to do that.  But hey, how great is that song for that video?? 

It was a wonderful day.  It was a great way to start the week. 

 We had a lot of really random moments during the week. Tommy came up to my room while Charlotte was napping. He had put on his entire Captain America costume and was standing at my door saluting.  One of my favorite moments of the week.

 He also got a new mattress this week too.  I was putting Charlotte to bed and I came to his room to find him completely asleep with lights so bright.  I couldn't believe it.  Must be a good mattress!! He has never done that.  He also slept for 11.5 hours for the first few nights in that mattress.  Maybe the problem was that his old mattress was so bad.  Yikes!

 The kids did so great all week.  The renovations are done at school and now they are in their actual classrooms again.  They hardly look back when I drop them off.  They are so happy to have classrooms with windows again!  I sent this picture to Andrew and he said it looks like a moody album cover picture.  Ha!

 On Wednesday we celebrated the life of my grandfather Delos Anthony Keiper. We drove to Renssy and met Andrew who came home from Chicago.  We attended the funeral and spent a lot of time with the family.  It was a nice day and it was great to see Andrew even if for a short time.  My aunt took this adorable picture of Charlotte playing at my parents house after the events of the day.

 By the end of the week, the kids started to get tired. 

 And a teensy bit moody. :)

 But they kept up good faces!

 We watched both versions of The Jungle Book the last two nights.  First the people version and then the cartoon.

Saturday morning before Charlotte's party, we had to make one last trip to the store as a temporary party of 3.  Of course we went in our jammies.  There's no other way to do Meijer at 9 in the morning!
We survived our week without Dada. But we are so glad to have him home after his very busy week!