The Daily Hailey

Driving home today, Dekker and I had this beauty of a conversation:

Dekker, is it smelly in here.
Yup!
What does it smell like?
Smells like…. strawberries.
Hmmm. I don’t think so. I think it smells more stinky.
Uh… no.
Ya, I think it does. What does stinky smell like?
Detter!

At least he knows! The nerve of a kid to poop on a travel day. Such is life. The drive was otherwise uneventful. We were all feeling quite tired, and I’ll be the first to admit, I was one of the whiners. I love a good road trip, and the trip was a definite success! But upon arriving home, I flopped down on the bed and barely lifted my head until it was time to get the kids to bed.

Kidlets were happy to be home for sure, and played their fair share in the living room before becoming very sad when the dreaded (and much anticipated) 8:00pm came.

All this said, I am sleepy and want a bath. So I leave you with pictures of our trip!! They are mostly of my children and food. Enjoy! I sure did.

For the first time ever, we could NOT keep Dekker out of the water! Not even long enough to get him into swim stuff!

Swimming with Uncle Stefan aka Stefit.

Hahaha! Conveniently censored picture 🙂 I’m pretty sure Dekker is pouring a watering can over his little man parts, lol!

Lounging Laela

While visiting with some of our dear friends, their seven year old son befriended Dekker. He had the BEST Dekker radar we’ve ever seen, and gave him tons of space, ever so slowly engaging him. By the time we left, Nick had showed Dekker his room and all of his toys, read to him, and played trucks with him. It melted my heart to hear them conversing and sharing. Best. Kids. Ever.

The kind of snacks we were fed day in and day out. The fanciest kind of crackers and cheese ever. Who would have ever put jalapeño cheese and strawberry jam together?!

Auntie Caity keeping Laela company during her lunch

These two 🙂 I adore them. Check out Dekker’s tongue and Laela’s toes. They did great together.

She looks sooo much like my mom here!! See it, mom? She has grandma Jeanne written all over her!

Considerably less fancy but equally as delicious food. Pretzelman, why aren’t you here with me always?!

Hahaha, lunch with Caity 🙂 Deliciously bad food.

Dekker was completely enamoured with “Puppy Maybe” and by the end, he wanted to see her close up. He never did work up the courage to touch her, but her threw her ball a few times and watched her lick Laela.

On the way home!!! While everyone was still happy, lol! YAY!

As I mentioned earlier, I just wanted to lay in bed upon getting home. While I was being a big baby, Dekker came over and climbed into bed with me. I took advantage of the photo opportunity, obviously, and just after this, Deks leaned over, gave me a kiss, and then left. Cute little boy lifted my mood. I knew he was extra tired too, but if he could pull out some smiles, so could I!

Even knowing I should have a good attitude, we did arrive home to no hot water, so thats a bit of a bummer 🙁 Hopefully the water heater resets in enough time for me to have my long awaited bubble bath!!

Sleep deep, all! Until next time.