Weekend at Poppa and Nana's

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We spent last weekend at Poppa and Nana's since we haven't been there in a long while (since Thanksgiving!)

My mother recently had hip surgery so she wasn't very mobile, and Laila is still not allowed to do a lot of her usual physical activities since she's recovering from her surgery, so this was a very low-key visit. Nana read some books to Laila, Laila rode her tricycle around their house--still pushing off the floor, not pedaling, despite our attempts to teach her how to pedal--I went on a walk with Laila and Poppa, and we watched Frog and Toad. Since Nana couldn't prep a full dinner, we ordered Thai food the first night and ate that and Poppa barbecued some fish and hamburgers the second day. We mostly stayed in the whole weekend, and Laila didn't even throw any tantrums about not being able to go jump on the trampoline. It was nice and low-key.

The one external thing we did was visit shane.suydam and meaghan.figg, who now live only a couple blocks from my parents' house! They have twins and we arrived just when one of the twins was waking up from her nap (the other was already awake). They were a bit unsure of how to handle Laila, especially since they'll be turning two soon and Laila is almost five, but they got along well enough. For her part, Laila was very happy at two full rooms filled with toys and spent a bunch of time in the ball pit, though she did play directly with one of the twins too--there was a stacking toy with pieces that had from one to five holes in them and pins to put them on, and the twin handed pieces to Laila while Laila put them all on the pins. Then we ended with a bit of time in the backyard (though Laila sadly wasn't allowed to climb on the playset) before going back for barbecue and then going home.

Nana's restrictions end in May, just before Laila's. It'll be a long wait for both of them but hopefully they recover okay.