We had a fun family outing tonight & again, like other random times, I thought of you & how I can't wait for you to get here & be a part of our daily lives!!
It turns out that since we thought you were going to be from Ghana, we expected to know who you are by now... & even expected to have visited you at least once this summer, so we didn't make any summer vacation plans this year. Now that things have changed, we're capitalizing on family time in different ways... like a family fun trip to the car wash....What? You're wondering how that can be fun??
Because son, this?? This is quality time in action....
This is the kind of fun you have to look forward to when you have your own children. Because it turns out that when you have kids, the very idea of having a clean van sounds exhilarating! And when you get here, it will be even more fun - because you'll not just be adding to the mess of the van, you'll be adding to the fun the kids had discovering lost toys under the seat, a couple fortunes from old Chinese cookies & chasing each other around the car wash parking lot.
Until one of them had to pee.... and nope, it wasn't baby girl (which would have been much easier being that she's still in diapers). Instead it was your other sister... so things pretty much weren't as fun for her after that. After that, she just sat on the car seat out on the parking lot with her legs crossed.
Which really is another thing I should mention: When you come to join our family, the kids will have to teach you their fun trick of not going to the bathroom at home. You'll have to talk to them about what their schedule is, but somehow they have it worked out where at least one always needs to go about 15-30 minutes after we leave the house. So you'll have to work on figuring that out with them, but then we'll just add that to the list of fun things to do as a family when we are out & about.
Another thing the kids thought was fun at the car wash is the vacuuming hose. Despite the fact that the carpet in the car is way dirtier than the carpet at our house, the suction of the car wash vacuum is a lot less than the vacuum at home. So your baby sister thought it was a riot to put her fingers inside. (Turns out mom didn't think it was quite as much fun picking all the grass, hair, & morsels of old, leftover food off the carpet & feeding it into the hose.)
Dad thought it was fun to do a quick wipe down of the plastic with some antibacterial wipes in the van. At least, he said he had done it... I'm sure he just thought the dried Cheerios & green sticky popsicle were part of the plastic of the van since it had been there so long...
So, yeah, you're missing out on some fun times.
But somehow I have a feeling when you get here things are going to get a lot more fun!
And don't worry - tomorrow afternoon we'll wonder when the last time the van got cleaned was anyway, so you know... more fun family car-wash times are in the future!
