Mondays

We had the best day. Every Monday Marci and I have a play date with the younger kids. We pick the girls up from school and head to one of our houses. We swap every week. The babies nap and the girls play. It has been great. This week her husband had to work and J is out of town so we decided to continue the play date into the night for dinner. I was going to pick Av up from school and head back to her house. But then I got a great idea. Why not have Av ride Jackson's bus home. The only weird part of it is that they go to 2 different schools. Their schools are so close to each other that the buses go to both schools. So the bus Jackson rides home picks up the Wilder kids first then the Dunn and then drops them all off at their homes. So why couldn't she just ride his bus home? I sent a note in her back pack and then called this am to make sure. I was slightly worried but Av was all for it. She is a very strong little girl. I explained to her that she would be on a bus with kids she didn't know other than Jackson when he got on. I wanted to make she sure knew what she was doing wo scaring her though. She was not scared. She was all for it and very excited. I would have been so scared at her age. When I called the school they were slightly taken back. A Wilder kid had never went home on a bus with a Dunn kid. But in reality it was not a big deal and with the note I had written they were all good with it. I felt better. The lady I talked to took down Jackson's name to tell the bus driver and said she would make a copy of my note for him as well. It worked perfectly and Jackson and Av got of the bus very happy. Come to find out one of the boys in Av's class rides that bus so she sat with him. Very fun. We had a great time playing. It was almost 60 here so we spent a lot of the night outside. E loved playing with Jackson. He is really going to look up to him. Pretty neat. Av and Jackson had a great time together as always too. They don't see each other enough these days but it never seems to matter. Guess that's a sign of a true friendship!!!