Yesterday Dotty, Memaw, and I left at about 9:30am to head to Colleyville to visit my Grandparents (Dotty's Great Grandparents). On the way down to see Mother and Peepaw (as Dotty calls them) Dotty was an angel for the entire 2 hour trip. (I am still amazed that parents ever traveled with small children in the days before DVD players.) While Memaw and I visited, Dotty and the "Wiggles" had a grand time rehearsing all the nursery rhymes ever known to man (some of them are quite pointless but Dotty seems to get a kick out of them...and of course as I drift off to sleep each night it is the really dumb ones that seem to run through my head on an unending "repeat" mode).
We got to Colleyville in great time and like most young children it took a while for Dotty to warm up to her new audience but luckily Memaw had packed a small suitcase (and i am not joking on that one) full of toys and books for Dotty to play with so Mother and Peepaw could at least "watch" Dotty interact with something. My Uncle Donny and cousin Matt came over to eat chicken spaghetti (my favorite) with us. It was so nice to see them although the visit was short because Donny needed to get back to work. Later, Mother, Memaw, Dotty and I went out to see Mother's flowers and Dotty played with all the butterflies.
Memaw and I then took Dotty to a park close to Mother and Peepaw's house. It was filled with all sorts of "blue" fun things to play on and we let Dotty run, swing, slide, and play until she was just exhausted. Nap Time!!! We then decided it was a good time to hit the road to head to McKinney where we were going to meet Tony who would take me and Dotty back with him to Byers so Memaw could spend the weekend with Mother and Peepaw.
Dotty slept the whole way to McKinney and woke up to another park that we had found. It was next to a beautiful lake and had all sorts of ducks, geese, and birds flocking around looking for food. Dotty loved feeding the birds but in an effort to get close to a grumpy duck she and Memaw had to make a run for it to not get a "duck kiss" (as we told Dotty). Times like those make me wish I had my video camera...I might could have been a winner on America's Funniest Home Videos!
Soon it was time to meet Tony who took me and Dotty to yet another park that had three sets of slides and swings and a water area with sprinklers all in it. Dotty LOVED this park and would probably liked to have talked to a real estate agent about a house nearby but we only had a hour to spare there.
We then took Dotty to a softball park at McKinney Boyd (home of the "red" Lady Broncos) to watch Robert's Gunter team play in an Area game against S&S. Gunter won 5 to 4 and Dotty had a good time playing with a little girl named Lilly who was decked out in a Gunter Tigers cheerleading uniform.
After what was a long day Dotty, Tony, and I headed back to Byers. Dotty was a really good girl and a real joy to have. She made it until just outside of Byers until she fell asleep and thanks to a 10 minute nap I heard today that she was up until 1am!!!
With all the parks we visited I was reminded of how wonderful it was to swing and slide and just play! I thought back to the days when my biggest concern was getting a "good" swing and saving the one beside me for my friend to swing on. I am so glad I get to relive some of those wonderful memories as I pushed Dotty "higher" in the warm sunshine.
To quote Dotty..."We had a wonderful day!"
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