Meanwhile, back in Austin...

Guest post from Hazel:

 While Mom and Mitchell were in Boston, Dad, Turner and I were having a blast too!  Thursday we woke up really early to take Mom and Mitchell to the airport. Then Dad took us to my old school for the day since he had to work. I hadn't been there in months, so it was great to see all of my old friends again.  I saw my teacher who is now nine months pregnant.  Dad thought the baby might pop out while I was there on Thursday but it didn't.  Turner ran to his old teacher like he had never been gone!

Thursday night Dad made us a really yummy dinner and read lots of books to us.  We went to bed without any fuss.  Everything was a lot calmer with fewer of us in the house.

Megan and Ryan at Kiddie Acres

Friday was a real treat.  Dad took the day off work to spend the whole day with us.  We did lots of fun stuff. Dad finally brought us to the gym so we could see where he goes to work out. Turner and I were pretty impressed. They had lots of exercise equipment, and even a kids club just for us. We stayed there and had a lot of fun. Then we came home for a yummy lunch and nap. 

Dad had to wake us up from our nap, because Friday afternoon we got to hang out with our friends Megan and Ryan. Yup, Dad had 4 kids to watch! Dad took us to the most fun place ever - Kiddie Acres. Turns out that during the middle of the day during the week it's not that busy at Kiddie Acres. We were the only ones there, so we had our own personal attendant who followed us around and turned on whatever ride we wanted.  Each of us took turns picking what ride we wanted to go on next. We rode on every single ride they had, most of them twice! My favorite thing was riding on the ponies.

Giddy up!

We dropped off Megan and Ryan and came home for more yummy dinner and a bath. Dad was once again surprised at how easily we went to bed.

Turner really liked this horse

Saturday was super awesome. In the morning, we headed over to the school playground to meet up with all of the kids from Mitch's kindergarten group. Even though Mitch wasn't there, all of the kids and parents were happy to see us. We were having a great time, but we had to leave early to go to a picnic!

This is for you Bubbe! (a UF alum)

The picnic was downtown, and it was made up of a bunch of the SEC school alums in Austin. We met our friend Dylan and his Dad down there and hung out with all of the Kentucky alums.  Papa was a Kentucky alumni, which makes all of us honorary Kentucky alums. The picnic was so fun. They had a bounce house, a Rudy's barbecue, and games, and cookies. The Florida group even brought a big alligator that we got our picture taken with.

We were exhausted after the picnic and took a long nap.  We spent Saturday afternoon with Dad running errands.

Sunday was even more fun. We met up with Megan and Ryan and their parents to go swimming at their pool.  Their neighborhood pool has three different pools.  One is a giant kiddie pool that Turner really loved.  Another one has fountains and is shallow enough for me to run around in.  And they also have a big pool that we could practice swimming in. Megan and Ryan's dad took cool pictures of me under water.

We had to leave swimming early so we could get a nap ahead of our wild afternoon and evening activities.  Our friend Will had a birthday party at Soccer Zone. It was a lot of fun - we played soccer, ran around, saw a bunch of our friends there, and had cupcakes with soccer-ball icing on them.  After the party, we came home and played with Dad for a while. Then we went to Freebird's for dinner.  It was a great day.

Unfortunately, the weekend came to an end, and Monday it was time for Dad to head back to work. He dropped us off at the school we now attend two mornings a week. We had a good day there.  When Dad came to pick us up, we didn't want to leave! Instead of heading home, Dad took us over to Rita's to have a delicious Italian Ice snack, and then headed home for dinner and sleep.

Tuesday, Dad had to work again so we spent another great day at our old school.  We were expecting to see Mom and Mitchell Tuesday night, but it didn't quite work out that way.  So we saw them the next morning. As soon as we woke up, we climbed into bed and snuggled her. 

We are certainly happy to have all of our family back, but we had a great time with Dad. And Dad was floored at how much easier we are to handle when its just the two of us.