Or better known as....
Leaving on a Jet Plane part 5!!
We have done it again, another trip to that wonderfully hot and humid state known as Florida. We saddled up the troops and piled in the plane, all before the sun was up. However, if you asked the troops, the sun needed to be helped up by "tickling it awake." ("Sun comes up and we wake up. Sun goes down and moon comes out, time to sleep.") This time, things were a little slower than in the past as Great-Grandma was a little under the weather. However, it did not stop the Dynamic Duo from feeding her crispy noodles and sliced almonds from Wendy's, not to mention the daily trashing of her humble abode.
This trip, we managed to do it all. A few days before we left for Florida, we had watched an episode of Jon & Kate plus Ei8ht where the family went to a beach. Of course, I immediately got the quick, "Mommy, I wanna go to the beach!" as soon as the episode started up, and we were able to do this fun little sidetrip during our visit. Alyssa and I went "surfing" in the ocean while Aron decided he would rather collect shells, sand, and coconuts. (Yes, I said a coconut. It washed up on the shore and was carried to our towel.) At the end of the day, Mommy was as red as a lobster, and the A-Team was exhausted. But the fun did not stop as the following days brought playtime at the mall with the large breakfast foods, a flat tire with half a day waiting on repairs, and a visit to the splash pad. Similar to the trip down, the trip home was uneventful with Alyssa snoring during takeoff from the Tampa Bay airport until shortly before landing at C-bus.
Now comes the hard part.... PRE-SCHOOL!!! Yes, you read it correctly. The A-Team is now enrolled in a part-time school program, and I will be seeing a sight that I did not think I would see for another year. See, Mommy was planning to take her time to research the schooling options available to her for the 2009-2010 school year, not to mention working on perfecting that dreaded potty thing but ended up enrolling Aron and Alyssa in a partial day school as well as returning to work. Many things tend to happen fast for us, such as the entire instant family. I guess what takes some families a few years to obtain we like to do in about two minutes, or in about three days. :-) At least we tend to need the same things for both of the them at the same time, and it is a form of organized chaos that I would never trade for anything. :-)
