Amanda woke up this morning to see Milly staring at her from crib. She wasn’t sure if Milly could actually see that far, but she was looking in our direction from between the slats of the crib. And she woke up at 8:00, instead of earlier than usual, which is a first for this trip. It might be a first for being away from home.
Uncle Roy came in last night and hadn’t gotten a chance to see Milly, but he did get to this morning.
Mom made a breakfast of eggs, biscuits and bacon. It was yummers.
Elmo, one of my parents’ dogs, was found injured this morning. Amanda called Banfield, who said that they could look at her but if her leg was broken or anything like that they’d end up passing her off to the emergency vet, so Dad, Josh and I carried her out to the car and Mom took her to the vet. The shame of it is that my mom had gotten a later flight to Rochester for today to be around the family more, and she ended up leaving us for a chunk of time and not being able to see anybody off.
Erin called when we were almost back home and told me that Elmo’s knee had been blown out, and that it was likely just from running around. I think surgery was mentioned, but the best option seems to be to just let it heal.
Amanda, Milly and I left after Milly’s lunchtime feeding. After loading up the car just about to capacity we took off back to Wilmington. Aside from Erin, who was taking Mom back to the airport later, we were the last to leave. I wish we got to see my parents more. I’ve got to say, everybody did a good job of splitting time with the babies. I can’t wait for Addie and Milly to get to the age where they can really play and interact.
The drive home seemed to go by pretty fast. Amanda and I chatted a lot, but honestly I couldn’t really tell you what we talked about now. It was just… pleasant. Milly continued her record of traveling well.
After we got home and unloaded the car I went back out to pick up MarioKart for the Wii, but it was sold out at Best Buy, where I have a gift card (thanks, Dain!). I decided to go ahead and look at GameStop across the street. They didn’t have it either, but I considered buying a few used games because they had them on a buy two get one free special. I didn’t end up getting anything though- I’ve got enough games to play.
After I got home and we got Milly to bed Amanda and I played a good bit of Wii Fit. Hopefully we’ll keep up with it and it will do us both some good. After Amanda went to bed I played a bit of Wario Land Shake it!, which is a fun little side-scroller.
Tomorrow marks the return to work. I’ve already got plenty to do, from the number of emails that I’ve read over the past couple days. I thought about going ahead and getting started on some of it, but I decided I owe myself a little time.
Zach Dotsey