Well, we're buttoning things up here. The movers are coming in less than a week to pack us up (eek!) and we still have to take a quick trip down to Archie's parents house to drop off his Jeep and trailer. Since there are somewhat iffy rules when you live in a subdivision like the one we're moving into, we're just going to leave them at his parents' place for the time being.
We had a great time over the weekend on one last hoorah with our friends back in New England. As usual Portsmouth played a great host to our group of delinquents :) I am really going to miss those guys even more now. It was bad enough being a 6 hour drive away, but now we are going to be a plane ride away, and you can't just do that whenever.
One nice part of the weekend was that Mommy & Daddy spent the first night away from Rachel. Archie's mom came up and spent the night with her while we had fun (well, she was here for about 4 days, but the important part was her being here while we were gone the one night). It was a little tough on us, but apparently Rachel was unphased, which is GREAT! Plus, she got to have some last minute time with Grandma before moving away.
I did have some sad news before the party started this weekend. My Uncle Doug had a stroke on Thursday. My mother flew out to California to be with her family. Apparently he was in a vegetative state that he wouldn't ever likely recover from, so the family gave permission to take him off of the life support. He died about 15 minutes later. I know that he is in a better place now as he was going through so much turmoil these last many years. I just wish I could be there with my grandmother and mother and aunt to help comfort them.
On a lighter note, Rachel has been amazing me more and more each day. One of her latest things is she now repeats things (somewhat). Like animal noises. As we are reading I ask her what certain animals say. Most of the ones I do she finds hilarious, and some she attempts. Now if you ask her WHAT a cow is (not what it says, just what is it), she says MOOOOO (or her version of it, which sounds almost like a nasal foghorn sound). She also likes to do the monkey noise (ooo ooo eee eee, and the like). Nothing about the doggy, kitty cat, horse, pig, sheep or chicken. OH! She has SORT OF done a duck sound (quack quack), as she loves rubber duckies.
We had a great time over the weekend on one last hoorah with our friends back in New England. As usual Portsmouth played a great host to our group of delinquents :) I am really going to miss those guys even more now. It was bad enough being a 6 hour drive away, but now we are going to be a plane ride away, and you can't just do that whenever.
One nice part of the weekend was that Mommy & Daddy spent the first night away from Rachel. Archie's mom came up and spent the night with her while we had fun (well, she was here for about 4 days, but the important part was her being here while we were gone the one night). It was a little tough on us, but apparently Rachel was unphased, which is GREAT! Plus, she got to have some last minute time with Grandma before moving away.
I did have some sad news before the party started this weekend. My Uncle Doug had a stroke on Thursday. My mother flew out to California to be with her family. Apparently he was in a vegetative state that he wouldn't ever likely recover from, so the family gave permission to take him off of the life support. He died about 15 minutes later. I know that he is in a better place now as he was going through so much turmoil these last many years. I just wish I could be there with my grandmother and mother and aunt to help comfort them.
On a lighter note, Rachel has been amazing me more and more each day. One of her latest things is she now repeats things (somewhat). Like animal noises. As we are reading I ask her what certain animals say. Most of the ones I do she finds hilarious, and some she attempts. Now if you ask her WHAT a cow is (not what it says, just what is it), she says MOOOOO (or her version of it, which sounds almost like a nasal foghorn sound). She also likes to do the monkey noise (ooo ooo eee eee, and the like). Nothing about the doggy, kitty cat, horse, pig, sheep or chicken. OH! She has SORT OF done a duck sound (quack quack), as she loves rubber duckies.
