Visiting with Dad and Edith

From Modesto, we drove west to Milpitas, where my dad and Edith live. It's fortunately only about an hour's drive. When we arrived, we met one of Edith's sons, Darby, and his two daughters. They had come to visit on the same day, so the girls had instant playmates. It was amazing to me because Darby's daughters mirrored mine to the "T." His younger daughter was slight and shy and his older daughter had a larger frame with a HUGE personality. The four girls got along famously.

Dad and Nick.

Dad and Edith live in a seniors' mobile home park, so it's a very quiet neighborhood until the weekend when everyone's grandchildren come to visit. That's when the pool area becomes the playground for lots of families. We spent the majority of the day at the pool. Edith and Cecilia brought over a lovely barbeque lunch and we made the kids get out of the pool long enough to eat.

Nick never did master the art of napping in his porta-crib : ( But he did have his longest nap of the whole vacation while we were visiting Dad and Edith...he napped for 90 minutes while I held him, and then another 90 minutes while Dad held him!

Around 5:00, Jordyn decided that she was done, so Edith took her home to get her cleaned off and dressed. Dad and I decided that we'd let Patience swim until she collapsed just to see how long she would last. She had been in the pool since 1 with only a short break to eat. At 6, she finally trudged up the stairs and said she was tired. We took her back home and she joined Jordyn in Edith's jetted tub.

Spa day for the girls!


Nick loves the fish tank!

After getting bathed and dressed, Edith took the girls to the Walgreen's where she works and said what every kid dreams of hearing, "Choose anything you want! Just put it in this basket!" And then proceeded to take them down the candy aisle, the toy aisle, the ice cream freezer. Five bags later, we went back to their home and once again loaded up the van for another drive, this time back to Moss Beach for another visit with Grandma and Papa.

Goodbye photo with my parents and the kids... unfortunately Nick had just expired : (