Ian's First Out of Town Overnighter

Grammy and Papaw have entered the world of 5th wheels. Papaw will be building a house in Midland over the next few months so my sister and brother in law have graciously allowed us to park our 5th wheel trailer at their land and beside the barn that Monty built a few years ago. It is way cooler than an RV park and has lots of stuff for a little guy to do so when Papaw had to go to Midland this week, I decided that I would see if Ian's mommy & daddy would let him ride to Midland with Grammy and spend the night. They told me it would be fine so after Ian's speech class Friday morning, I met Beau at Ridgmar Mall and picked up the boy and we headed to Midland. Our first stop was Pizza Inn at Abilene where we met up with Uncle Cole and had some pizza, then we were back on the road to see Papaw. Ian looked at books, counted on his fingers, pulled off his shoes and socks and we listened to "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" about 25 times. He never fussed about the long ride and was as good as could be.

We finally got to the barn, outside of Stanton, and we turned the little guy lose to run wild for awhile.




He played on the tractor first and of course I didn't have my camera handy, we walked back up to the barn opened the doors to the barn and found the roller coaster which provided tons of fun. We went back to the trailer and cut up an apple for Kit, the horse, and Ian wasn't the least bit afraid of him. He was so gentle with Ian and was very careful to take the apple from him with just his lips, no teeth, thank goodness. Cousins arrived along with my sister and her daughter Jenni. Then it was time to go for a ride on the wagon and then stomp a few gopher holes and build a sand castle with the dirt. Boys just love dirt and notice how clean Kiersten stayed.

It was time to go in and get a bath and eat supper and get in bed and we were a little worried about Ian sleeping so we thought we would let him lay in bed and watch a video. Since he had run so much and only slept about an hour while we were driving we thought he would fall asleep quickly. We were going to let him watch until he fell asleep but he kept commenting on the video saying, "Oh no! Grammy! Oh no!" We decided we would turn it off and 3 nightmares later at 1:20am we all finally slept.

Saturday we went in to Midland to eat at Taco Villa (yumm!) let Ian play at Martha's house then headed to Weatherford again. He was worn completely out but when we got home we had one more surprise for him. My friend's grandchildren had outgrown their battery operated truck and she graciously passed it down to my grandchildren. Ian had his first driving lesson and loved his truck! He is such a little blessing to us, we had a blast and I am pretty sure he did also. I am so thankful for the opportunity we had to spend one of our first 5th wheel trips with this precious boy.