Tuesday, March 7, 2017

While Jason was in Keezletown, the girls...

...enjoyed five days at the Mountain House in West Virginia with Grandma and Grandpa Myers!

After initially being a little scared of horsey, by the end she was mounting and dismounting by herself (and not so impressed when Alida decided to take a turn). 

We were joined in WV by Alida's opossum (Maggie) and doll (Ashley). Terah was impressed with the stairs (if  she left the room and it got quiet, it was a good time to go check on her whereabouts - very possibly heading up the stairs). 

We called the small snow we enjoyed "Kali's snow" as she has been yearning for snow and missed the larger snow that Alida enjoyed during her week in WV. While it didn't last long and wasn't deep, it provided hours of enjoyment!

A snow walk (or ride for Alida) to the labyrinth was enjoyed by all. 

Games, games, and more games were played! The marble racer was a bit hit. And, of course, WV state parks monopoly was Alida's favorite (what she was thankful one evening at dinner when we all said something we were thankful for).

Kali wanted to make a snowball that would last until we left. She was successful! 

Kali didn't even want to take the week off cooking, but made a delicious dinner for us to enjoy in WV!

Time with Grandpa often ignited the giggles, especially this stint involving "Da," Terah's new baby opossum.

We ventured to Canaan Valley to go hiking and I didn't even bring the pack for Terah. She wanted to be held a little but mostly wanted to be a hiker too!

The highlight of my week was having more time to enjoy hanging with this trio!

There was just enough snow left on the ground along the trail for snowball fights and throwing snowballs into the river. Thankfully we got through our hike with only snowballs falling in the water - all children and adults were dry!

Terah was so interested in everything - the rocks, the snow, the water...I love how much our girls love the outdoors!

Three generations!

Terah was impressed with Kali's snowball!

I benefited greatly from two grandparents who were happy to read stories, play games and otherwise entertain and be entertained by the girls. 

On the last day we hiked up Mom and Dad's land to their little pond in a drizzly rain. Again we enjoyed the water adventure with no one falling or jumping in - Terah was pretty interested in taking a dip!

Kali and Alida enjoyed exploring some rocks and Kali even found a new kind of red fungus that Mom and Dad had never seen on their place. 

I'm still adjusting to the fact that we really don't have a baby anymore. She's a tried and true little girl - complete with a new skill of "arguing" with us when she disagrees with something we say or are proposing we/she do. It's kind of cute!
It was really a lovely time away (other than missing Jason!). What is not pictured is that I got to work on some projects that I've been wanting to work on, was able to keep up with work stuff during Terah's naps and in the early mornings, got our taxes done AND I read a novel in 24 hours (if you are reading this blog and have not yet read small great things by Jodi Picoult, please do, and let's talk about it - could not be more pertinent for our times). That's about as close to a vacation as I'm going to get at this stage of family life! I didn't manage to get a nap or get a full night's sleep, but that might have just spoiled me a bit too much!

We arrived home late morning and are getting settled back in. The biggest news following our arrival home is that I went upstairs to get something from the freezer to find the girls out on the concrete pad in the rain AND Alida riding her bike! Yep, she learned to ride her two wheeler this afternoon and now is tearing around on it like a pro. As she was riding around, she commented to Jason, "Every day some different change happens to the world, isn't it?" Kids...they are incredible!

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