Spending time with Cassie

You may remember that although our granddaughter Cassie likes to come over, and says she's staying overnight, it hasn't gone well in the past, and we've ended up taking her home.
She was going to be staying with us when her new brother was born and since Andrew would be staying at the hospital, there wasn't going to be the option of going home.  We were all worried about how that was going to go, and Heather and Andrew kept talking to her to remind her that she had to stay.  

Here she is on the first evening.  She had lots of fun playing, but as bedtime got closer we started hearing "I miss Papa and Mama".  We reminded her they were at the hospital and couldn't come home yet.

Here's Bob with her in the rocking chair, reading a book before bed. She cried a little but then went to bed and only woke up once.  She went right back to sleep when I checked on her.

We found out she's wide eyed and talkative in the morning.  I love hearing that cheery little voice first thing!
She slept well the other nights, just a few tears before bedtime and we all told her how proud we were of her.

Here's some photos of things we did while she was with us.

She loves playing in our family room downstairs and getting out the Matryoshka dolls. We have a playhouse and lots of kitchen toys down there. She takes our orders and serves us with a smile!

We visited the ponies down the road and fed them apples.

We used an idea from Jenny the Pirate and went on an adventure walk.  We put packing tape around her arm, sticky side out and she collected pretty things she found to put on it.  

One morning she surprised us by dressing herself.  She wasn't at all worried about putting on pajamas from different sets and tennis shoes with them!

We played on Grandpa and Grandma's "playground"

We went to the Dollar Store and she picked out slime, but this slime had a ball in it that lit up.  Here she is playing with it, and the light up ball is by her Mr Ted.  She kept saying "How cool is that?"  Best $1.25 I ever spent!

One morning she decided I needed to take her picture with about every stuffed animal she could find in the house.  :)

She did some bike riding...

and some porch sitting, but not too long because she doesn't really believe in sitting!

She found flowers in the yard for her mom, but we knew they wouldn't make it home so I tried to get a picture, but she kept closing her eyes!

Before we knew it, it was time to go back home.  I had her sitting on our bathroom counter to get ready and I thought she looked so cute sitting there with the bear so I snapped this photo.

She was happy to be home with her family and we were tired out!  But we had such fun and we think our house is a little too quiet now.