Loving Mommyhood and Life: North Carolina

As I stated in my last post, we drove to North Carolina this weekend to visit some friends that moved there a few years ago. Mike and Leeann are great friends and they have a wonderful little girl, Lane, who is almost 2. We left Wednesday night and stayed halfway. The kids did great on the trip up (about 4.5 hours) and everyone slept pretty good in the hotel room once we got settled. Jack slept with me. He woke up about 6:30 and kept whispering stuff to me until about 8. We got up, ate breakfast in the hotel and hit the road! We made it there about 3 o'clock with a few stops and lunch. We waited for Mike to get home from work and headed to Red Robin - yummmm! Jack got a balloon which made his night, and then headed back their house to get settled in. Before the kids went to bed, we did a little dancing and playing in the living room.

Mid-Dance Hugging

"Shout" - Great Song

On Friday, Mike had to work, so Leeann and Lane took us to Marbles Kids Museum. All the stuff is kid-friendly and they had a great time there. You can dress up as different people, shop at a grocery store, play life size chess, climb a pirate ship, etc. I think Jack would have played with the train table for hours. We had to drag him away. Craig was a great sport without another adult male there.

We came home after a quick bite to eat and the kids napped. That afternoon we hung around the house and the kids played outside for a bit before dinner. They also have a dog, Jake. We were telling Jack on the way up about Jake and he wanted to see Jake when we got there. You can't miss him, he is 120 lbs and quite tall, but the sweetest dog in the world.