Got up and on the road by 9 a.m. Not much happening at this stage of our drive
home except for the side trip to Waddy, Ky, to see the new kid on the block.
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Made it to Marshal’s about 12:30, laden with
lots of diapers and wipes. Our welcome
to the world present for little Charlie....and her parents. Also brought a couple boxes of Little Debbie
snack cakes for her older brothers and sister.
It’s fun to be the grandparents. 😊
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The Kentucky Bakkers were sitting out on
their porch when we arrived...all but Shelby and Susan (Callie’s mom). They were upstairs trying to take a nap. Charlie was soundly sleeping in her momma’s
arms when we got there. Then she slept
in Grampa’s arms and then in Gramma’s arms.
There was some stretching, baby noises and repositioning but she kept
sleeping. Even through the pictures with
her noisy brothers and sister.
Grampa pushed the boys on the backyard
swings as only Grampa can do...he’s definitely the preferred swing pusher. Shelby is infatuated with her
little sister...for now. When she saw me holding Charlie, she climbed up on the
porch swing to sit beside us and just rested her hand on her sister’s
back. Like she was the one taking care
of the baby. And when I asked Clayton if
we could take Charlie home with us, his answer was a very emphatic “No, that’s
our baby from my momma’s tummy. You
can’t take her.” Dylan really didn’t say
much about Charlie...he was more interested in playing. So it seems that the older siblings don’t
mind the addition of the rookie.
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I realize that the first couple of weeks of
a baby’s life there’s a lot of facial changes happening. I could see that Charlie already looked different
than those initial “She’s here!” pictures of three days ago. So there are things I want to note here about
her right now because they could be different in a week: #1. Her cheeks are not
nearly as big as her first picture made them look, #2. As I was holding her I
saw a real resemblance to her cousin Grady, #3. She has a good amount of dark
hair, and #4. She has tiny flat to her head ears and big hands. She is perfect in every way!!
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| Clayton had to see what Dylan was doing |
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Left Marshal’s about 4 p.m. to head
north. Not going to make it all the way
home tonight...we’re hoping to make it as far as my mom’s in Ludington. Might be a midnight arrival, though....and if
we can’t make it all that way, we’ll grab a room.
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Ran into rain in Indianapolis...up to this
point the weather has been sunny and warm...in the mid-70’s in Waddy, KY, when
we left. At 8 p.m. it’s rainy and
chilly...down to 47o.
Wherever we wake up in the morning I’ll be putting my jeans on, I’m
sure. And socks...can’t forget the
socks.
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We’ve seen many construction sites along the
way but I haven’t been able to catch sight of any names on the traffic
cones. Still a curiosity thing for
me.
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I’ve been fielding work calls the whole time
we’ve been gone, telling people to give me a call back in April. So now they are. Almost time to start paying the price for
taking a month off. 😐
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It’s 9 p.m. and we’re in a hotel room in
Peru, Indiana...at least I think that’s where we are. First we ran into an hour long stop-n-go slow
down between Louisville and Indy...then there was the rain north of Indy...then
it started raining harder as darkness fell.
Just not great driving conditions in general...and even worse when you’re
road weary. Since we wouldn’t get to my
mom’s until well after midnight we decided to give ourselves a break and just
get a room. We can stop to see my mom
tomorrow.
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According to the map we made less than 400 miles
today...but we got to see the KY WonderKids so it’s all good.
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