Magic Bus Bound

The girl child continued her birthday celebration last weekend. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and brought with them an uncle and aunt. Another uncle and his better half joined the celebration as well cousins from a rather large city about three hours east of here which features a rodeo and a football team who will hopefully cease playing like an expansion team by the end of its first decade.

Pictures from the past two weekends should be coming once Picasa and I learn to get along. Hopefully later today (i.e., the man who snores next to me comes home from work and can help yet again).

When our guests departed on Sunday, the kiddo made it clear that she wanted to ride "The Magic Bus." Her grandparents own a motor home, and they had driven it down for the weekend. Why "The Magic Bus"? The coach has four slides which expand the width of the interior when parked, and the kiddo had christened the vehicle with this particular nickname when the slides were adjusted while she was lounging inside. When she deemed that the RV would be known as "The Magic Bus" this past Christmas, we were pretty impressed at her reasoning as she was three at the time.

So, Grandma and Grandpa strapped her in, and she took her first long trip in "The Magic Bus." Since arriving at her destination, she has accompanied both Grandpa and Grandma to their places of employment and visited the local zoo, Target, McDonald's and On the Border. She called Mom and Dad to let us know that she was enjoying creating a dinosaur on the Light Bright (if it's the one left over from my childhood, I am impressed by the longevity).

We get her back tomorrow night and cannot wait to see her again. We'll see how she feels about the "Real World" after parties two weekends in a row plus a week long trip to Grandma's and Grandpa's. My guess? She will not mind going back to school and Kids' Club (the child care center at the gym she enjoys).


One last thing to leave you with - What she has told me when I dropped her off at Kids' Club: "You go work out, Mommy. I'm going to have fun."

So true, kid. So true.