I made it back from my trip. I went down to Texas to visit my family over Thanksgiving and didn’t get back until yesterday. I thought that Mom had the kids but since there’s no post I can only assume that she put them in the refrigerator while she partied (I can just see her, 7 months pregnant, laying down the moves at the local disco …).
Anyway, I spent some time with Corwin and Charle’s uncles and his cousins. At one point the cousins, their mother and I were at Chuck E. Cheese. We had planned to do a bit of a hike but it had been raining on and off during the day so it was off to the corporate entertainment center.
One of the rides was a little car ride that had a camera attached to take a picture of the child while he was riding. Dawson, the youngest (4 years) cousin took a ride. His mother and I weren’t aware of the camera until after the ride was over. She picked it up and showed it to Dawson. She asked him “who’s that guy in the background?”. I commented “oh, just some weirdo” at which point Dawson, the light dawning in his eyes, turns, looks right at me and says “It’s yooooouuuu!”.
I talked to Corwin a couple of times while I was gone. He claimed that he didn’t miss me at all, not even after I brought home a present for him. Charles at least seemed happy to see me. To make a long day of travel even more enjoyable, every one was sick when I got back. Charles had a severe case of diareaha, Mom had a stomach flu and Corwin did some heavy barfing in the middle of the night. But everyone was basically recovered this morning, so it was just their way of welcoming me back.