Vacation update

Well, we have survived. Actually we're doing great! Good food, good people, not too hot. The girls have been good. We've watched a lot shows lately because it has been raining for the past 3 days, but they're doing good.

Dave showed Kate and Mary how to play a Playstation Scooby-Doo game and they're hooked. I think this has been the first time that Kate could actually play a game by herself and have some success so she's pretty excited about it. She gives John a play by play update everyday when he calls. Hopefully he'll have some time to play with them when he comes back because I keep telling them that Dad will show them when he comes if they ask me how to do something(I'm not really a computer game person although I have played with them a little).

Ruth has decided that if she can't find her dad, Dave is a pretty good substitute. Every day when he comes home from work, she hunts him down and makes him carry her around for about an hour. It's very cute. I went up to go to bed the other night and she was talking in her sleep, saying, "Da da!" really sadly. I think she thinks we lost him. It was sad and really cute at the same time. She definitely misses him and hopefully will be glad to see him when he returns.

I had the girls pick up all their stuff all over the house today and put it back in their backpacks that we brought with us. Emma took this as a sign that we were going home and came down wearing Ruth's backpack and pulling hers and saying, "I'm ready to go!" It took a little explaining until she understood that we had a while before we were leaving and we were just cleaning up. She is having fun but she enjoyed looking at John's pictures of home tonight.

Friday we went to the children's museum. It lived up to all expectations. The girls all played happily for almost 4 hours without a single fit or breakdown. It definitely was worth the money. They dressed up and tried on the cultures of South Africa, Mexico, Vietnam, and Holland. They fished to their hearts content and then dressed like fishmongers and sold the fish to each other. They played with a giant kitchen set and picked their own food in the garden. They helped build a house and played with puppets and all kinds of games. They're already clamoring to go back. I'd have super cute pictures but as usual I forgot my camera. Bummer!(All of the above activities were plastic replicas by the way)

Anyway life is good in Buffalo. The girls are having fun and so am I.