Where's The Other Sock?: getting ready for a big family trip!

Tomorrow, Daddy and Alex are taking off by car towards North Carolina. They'll stop once, in Petersburg VA, and then finish the trip Thursday morning. After the drama that Miss Maya had in the car on the way to Massachusetts, we've decided it's better if Maya and Mommy fly - so we leave bright and early on Thursday morning, at 6 am, and our flight gets to NC at 9:30.

We are so excited to see great-grandmama and great-granddaddy (or, in Alex's words, Great-mommy and Great-daddy). He remembers them fondly from our trip last year, and he even remembers "I couldn't touch in the pool in the hotel." (He doesn't think he'll be able to touch this year either, but I think he will! He's a good deal taller!).

I am excited to see the grandparents! Last year we went to a great children's museum called Marble's in Raleigh and we hope to do that again!

Maya is chatting up a storm next to me as I type, so I turned the camera on her and she went to town!! It's kind of dark, but it's a good one.

Alex came to a meeting at church with me the other day and drew this picture while the grown-ups were talking. I asked him why the boy was sad and he said that he's inside of a whale. Yeah, I'd be sad too! The stuff around him is the inside of the whale, the little circles are the fish inside the whale, and the best part, is that little circle with the line, to the left of the sad person? That's the whale's "hangy ball!"