Visiting Cousins

Wander's cousin lives about an hour's drive from our home. We get together with them whenever Wander's parents visit us. The six of us fit nicely in my MomMobile. Wander drives and his dad is in the front passenger seat because they both need the leg room. The middle row has Grandma and Glitter. Then Sparkle and I are in the "way back," because Sparkle's booster seat is easy to move, and I'm still flexible enough to climb into the back.




Wander's cousin has a big house in the middle of nowhere, with lots of room for guests, which is good because, several of his siblings and their families were visiting them from across the country. I think that there were close to 20 people in the house, almost of whom had the same last name. Sparkle and Glitter were the youngest by far - the next cousin is in high school. However, Sparkle still managed to get in the thick of things. Glitter preferred to hang out on the fringes. She would creep up to the crowd of "big kids" until one of them saw her and then she would scream with excitement at getting caught while running back to cling to me until she felt brave enough to repeat the process.



On the drive back late at night we saw well over a dozen deer roaming Wander's cousin's neighborhood. Most of them were in small groups of 2-3, but there was one large group. Deer are smaller than I thought. Then I had to ask Wander to stop pointing out the deer and Christmas lights because Sparkle and Wander were so tired and needed to sleep. They kept sitting up and peering out whenever Wander pointed something out, and then got cranky if the deer bounded away before they caught a glimpse.