Happy Friday!
1. When I woke up Carter this morning and asked him what we should do today, he said, "NanaPe" in a tone that said "duh, Mom!". It was pretty sweet and really told me just how excited he was to have them home.
2. I took the little lads in my life for lunch with mom, dad, brother Curtis and Jerry. The food was good and the company was even better.
3. After lunch, the boys and I came back to my parents' place to hang out for the rest of the day. Pe and Carter played cars for a while before Carter's nap. We also stayed for supper. It was just a nice relaxing day. And being at my parents' house reminds me of that saying, "home is where your mom is." It really is :)
As the day wore on and the hours passed with just the boys and I at mom and dad's, Carter's obsession with "NanaPe" became kind of funny and we realized that when he says "NanaPe" he's only talking to/calling for my dad! He knows that my mom is his Nana/Nan and he'll call her that, but today, every time he called for my dad, he said "NanaPe", which is totally hilarious. I don't know why he's morphed the two titles for my dad, but it cracked us up all evening.
As it got closer to home time I kept warning Carter that we were getting ready to go home soon and quickly he was very open about his intention NOT to leave his NanaPe behind. My Dad told him he could stay over at Nana and Pe's house if he wanted and Carter snapped that offer right up. We asked him if he wanted to go with Mum and sleep at home or if he wanted to stay at Nan and Pe's and he very pointedly said Nan and Pe's. I laughed, and said yeah let's wait and see what his answer is when I'm getting my boots on. Well, 15 minutes or so later, I'm packing up bags, getting ready to go and getting Grayson's car seat prepped to load his cute butt into it and Carter, realizing that I'm packing up to leave for home walks just behind my dad, hugs his leg and says "bye mom." And just like that, I'm not his favourite person anymore.
This was the first time that he's invited himself over to stay at my parents'. Any other time he's stayed, he's always been given the choice of staying or coming home, or we have made date night plans and had him sleep over night there. And he's fine with that and will pick staying there on occasion over coming home, but tonight was the first time that, like such a big kid, he just made it clear that he wanted to sleep over at his grandparents. It was a night I've always dreamed about for him - not because I don't want him home, but because as a kid, one of my favourite things was staying at my grandparents' house. I absolutely loved it. And I want that for my kids. And Carter telling me that he's staying at "NanaPe's" just re-affirmed for me how much he loves them, how loved he is by them, how much fun he has there, and how at home he feels there.
It just makes my heart happy for him. Such a lucky, loved little boy :)
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