You might remember this little girl from such posts as "Luke's BFF" and "Luke's BFF part 2" and "disney world" . Well, about a year and a half ago the she moved to San Antonio and broke Luke's heart. I figured since they were only 3 that they would miss each other for a while but then just forget. Over the summer Lezlie has been asking us to come visit because Aiden really wanted to see Luke for her birthday. She told all her friends, "there will be a boy at my birthday party that you don't know, his name is Lukey". (She always calls him Lukey) When their family goes on a trip Aiden brings a picture of Luke with her and then when they get to their hotel room or whatever - she pulls it out and puts it up in her room. And Lezlie texted me the drawing she drew at school. The name of it is "Me and Lukee getting married"
Well, we missed Aiden's birthday but we found cheap flights for Sept close to Lezlie's birthday and decided to take a trip to Texas. I told Luke we were going to see Aiden and I've never seen him so excited. We counted down the days taking links off a chain and it was finally time! I was really curious how Luke would actually act with Aiden once we got there. I just wondered if it could live up to the hype. But he really did just completely enjoy his time with her. When she was in school one morning, Luke was sort of pouty and ornery to me but then when she came home he just lit up and had this sparkle in his eye like the world was right again. I've never seen anything like it.
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| airport reunion |
This sleeping arrangement was Aiden's idea. She said, "but only if you
won't miss your mommy too much." They stayed up partying every night
until about 10:30. One night we went in to lay down the law and they each
had a Book of Mormon reader and we stood and listened for a minute and
they were talking about Heavenly Father and planets. When we asked them
what they were doing Aiden said "we are excited about learning the
gospel so we are reading these books!" Later I texted that to Joey and he said it sounded like a clever ruse. :)
There were some other people happy to reunite as well....
It was so
fun for me to see Addie and how much she had changed. She can sign! And
she's potty trained! She is good at making all her wants and wishes known. And she has developed a new love: ROCKS. Lezlie and Aaron made her a
"rockbox" outside so she can play to her hearts content.
We were sitting in the splash zone but Lezlie, Addie, Maryanne, Lucy and I moved back. But Luke and Aiden wanted to stay to get splashed and they got soaked! Luke kept saying (excitedly screaming) "that whale splashed me! that whale splashed me!"
Lezlie kept us hydrated with all day with fancy refill drinks... which made somebody really happy
As a good-bye present, Aiden gave Luke her Shamu stuffed animal that he had been sleeping with. It was so generous and he loved it so much. On the way home he kept saying, "will Aiden miss me?" "what if Aiden forgets to miss me?!" He sighed and said, "Aiden is my beautifulest friend. Beautifuler than all the friends in Tennessee."
We will you miss you Terry family! Thank you for hosting us and lending us some of your zest for life.
1 comment:
That sure looks like it was a lot of fun. I wish you would have brought me along.
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