family gatherings
Jun. 30th, 2005 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mamajoanI forgot to mention that my brother and sister-in-law are here. They arrived late last night from Arizona (even later than planned, due to the exciting weather) and are staying through next Wednesday, mainly to avoid flying too close to the holiday. We'll all be going to the Sox game on Saturday and then out to the cottage for our traditional July 4th celebrations, to return Tuesday night.
I saw them briefly this morning when I dropped Isaac off at my mom's house. They were asleep when we arrived (it was after all only 8am their time) but Isaac's cheery and not-at-all-quiet voice soon woke them. ;) Isaac was pretty flummoxed when they first came into the room, despite the fact that I had been trying to prepare him for a few days now by talking about Uncle Bart and so forth. Here Isaac was, cheerfully playing with his gramma's-house toys like always, when suddenly these two total strangers* walked in! His expression was priceless as he stared at them :) and when Bart sat down on the floor next to Isaac, he sort of slowly backed away. ;) LOL, not only was it a stranger, but Bart is rather large. Anyway, Isaac warmed up pretty quickly and started showing off his language skilz (it helped that he was REALLY engrossed in his train set, which he hadn't seen for quite a few days).
* they have met, but it was ages ago in toddler time, and I don't think he remembers at all.
Tonight I was thinking of seeing if everyone wanted to go over to the big field near our house, where the city is having its fireworks tonight (weather permitting). I'm a little worried that the fireworks might freak Isaac out; last year they definitely did, and we didn't even go to the field -- it's close enough that we could see and hear the fireworks from our back yard. I'm hoping that this year he'll be better with it since he understands more language and we can tell him it's okay and so forth. Anyway, the festivities don't even start till after 7pm, which is getting pretty close to bedtime, so we might skip it. They're also having a "Family Fun Day" on Saturday which we might go to instead.
I saw them briefly this morning when I dropped Isaac off at my mom's house. They were asleep when we arrived (it was after all only 8am their time) but Isaac's cheery and not-at-all-quiet voice soon woke them. ;) Isaac was pretty flummoxed when they first came into the room, despite the fact that I had been trying to prepare him for a few days now by talking about Uncle Bart and so forth. Here Isaac was, cheerfully playing with his gramma's-house toys like always, when suddenly these two total strangers* walked in! His expression was priceless as he stared at them :) and when Bart sat down on the floor next to Isaac, he sort of slowly backed away. ;) LOL, not only was it a stranger, but Bart is rather large. Anyway, Isaac warmed up pretty quickly and started showing off his language skilz (it helped that he was REALLY engrossed in his train set, which he hadn't seen for quite a few days).
* they have met, but it was ages ago in toddler time, and I don't think he remembers at all.
Tonight I was thinking of seeing if everyone wanted to go over to the big field near our house, where the city is having its fireworks tonight (weather permitting). I'm a little worried that the fireworks might freak Isaac out; last year they definitely did, and we didn't even go to the field -- it's close enough that we could see and hear the fireworks from our back yard. I'm hoping that this year he'll be better with it since he understands more language and we can tell him it's okay and so forth. Anyway, the festivities don't even start till after 7pm, which is getting pretty close to bedtime, so we might skip it. They're also having a "Family Fun Day" on Saturday which we might go to instead.
