Home From Grandma’s

Cooper adores going to his grandparent’s house. He can hardly wait to get there and typically gives me a quick wave when it’s time for me to go.

He likes to stay two nights and no more. That’s his max time he will happily be away from home.

At grandma’s he gets spoiled rotten and treated like a little prince. There is ice cream and swimming and snuggles and endless episodes of Family Feud.

Today he came home. He always struggles transitioning too and from. He wants to be home. He’s happy to be home. But his mind and body get anxious and frustrated. Like they are stuck in between. It often makes going hard. The knowing struggles are waiting.

Thankfully his anxiety was fixed with a nap today. And 300 DVDs that he has been taking out of the cases for what we can only imagine to be weeks. He likes to hold them in a big huge stack. They make him happy. They make me sweat a bit when he carries them around but that’s okay. Who watches DVDs anymore anyways.

When he woke up from his nap he put on his favorite shirt…his brand new baseball jersey for this year’s baseball season. And his hot dog pants.

He was happy. He was home. All of him.

He just snuggled his baby sister for the second time in her three weeks of life. He even showed her his DVD pile. She wasn’t all that impressed yet. But she will be someday. I promised him.

They just need time together. To figure each other out.

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