Brothers

We had Hunter and Colton this weekend. We met Becca and Clint at Baybrook Mall for the hand off Friday afternoon. They spent some energy walking around the mall, after being cooped in their car for three hours. We picked up the movie Marmaduke at Walmart and stopped to pick up a pizza on the way home. After baths, we watched the movie and ate pizza.

Saturday morning I searched the computer to see what kind of fun stuff I could find for us to spend a Saturday doing. We had a choice of a dinosaur exhibit at the zoo, Imax theatre, or train museum in Galveston. I showed the boys each website and let them choose. We decided on the dinosaurs. I fixed drinks, crackers and peanut butter, oranges, and bananas. While I was dressing the boys, the bottom fell out of the sky and the rain came pouring out. Odie pulled the radar up and said it should pass shortly, so we waited...and waited...and waited. Finally after about an hour (Do you know how long an hour is to little boys?), we bundled the boys up and shuffled them through the rain to the truck. According to the radar, it wasn't raining in Houston.

The rain wasn't letting up, so we decided to stop in Pearland and eat lunch at Gringo's. After lunch it was still raining, so we headed to Bass Pro to wait until the weather cleared up some. All my grand babies love Bass Pro. We spent over an hour looking at the fish, shooting the guns, pretending 1 minute naps in the tents that were set up, driving the boats, riding the elevator, checked out all the different stuffed animals, and petted a stuffed deer snuggled up next to a fence on the second floor. We came out to face more rain. Odie and I realized the dinosaur exhibit wasn't happening today.

I got out the iPhone to check what movies were out that the boys might want to see. We checked out the movie Alpha and Omega. We went to the Brazos Mall to see the movie. I got both boys some popcorn, sprite, and candy. I just got Odie a coke figuring we could share with the boys. About the third time that Odie reached over to get some of Colton's popcorn, Colton moved his popcorn away from Pawpaw and informed him that this popcorn was his and Pawpaw could get his own popcorn. This was a great movie that I will be adding to my kid's movie collection when it comes out on dvd.

We finished the movie and headed out in (you guessed it) the rain. Hunter had been promised a trip to Tokyo, so we headed there for dinner. It was Colton's first time to get to eat there. There was another couple at the table, and I made sure they had no problem sharing their table with a couple of little boys. The other couple got a kick out of the boy's reactions and a good time was had by all. We all tried catching rice with our mouths, watched an onion volcano that turned into an onion train, watched eggs roll, and fingers on fire. The food was as wonderful as always and way more than we could possibly eat. Colton was falling asleep as we drove home. There were baths to be had. I cuddled up in bed with the boys to read as they watched the movie Robots. Colton made it through about 20 minutes before he was out. Hunter and I lay there talking and catching up on school.

He shyly told me he has a girl friend that is very pretty. Her name is Kara. I asked what his least favorite thing at school was. He said he hated when he got a sad face. Every day at the end of the day you either get a happy face or a sad face. He had shown me his folder, when we were changing vehicles. He actually only had a couple of sad faces. He loves school, his teacher, riding the bus, and learning. Hunter can be very head strong, but he really wants to please and learn.

Sunday morning we stopped for breakfast at IHOP before heading out to Mainland Mall to pass the boys back to their parents. It was such a short fast paced weekend, but this Grammy loved it very much.

I don't live close enough to any of my Grand Babies to see them on a daily basis. I hope that grandparents that are that fortunate realize how lucky they are. I consider myself lucky, though, because I don't live more than 4 hours away from any of them. I only get them a day or two a month, so I try to pack as much fun in the short time I get to share with them.

This is one blessed Grammy!

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