I Started This Blog Post on Sunday Morning, Early....

But didn't get to finish it.  
I'm taking Ada and John home today.
It's been quite a week.  

Cousins.

Ann and I couldn't get over the energy generated when these four got together.

Admittedly, they exhausted us and we had to take breaks from that combo all along.

Ada would wake up asking if she was going to see Ellie and Luke that day.

And there was no leaving Andrew out of the action.

and all week John worked on

maneuvering my back steps, alone.

Fat Toes.  I love baby feet!

Ann took them to the park and to the splash park

on two different days.  

While I kept John and Abigail.

Here is where I was interrupted.

Today is a new post.

After the interruption, yesterday, I greeted Ada and John who were waking up.

From there we did "breakfast", completed packing and dressing and preparing for the road trip home.

I drove them home to McDonough.

From McDonough I drove to Tallassee, AL, by way of I-85, getting off at the Auburn exit and

driving through town, College St, to get to Co Rd. 14 which takes me to Tallassee.

Beth and Jamie Baldwin have created their home there on the land

where Beth grew up.  She loves South Alabama the way I do.

It's home.

Her oldest daughter, Hope, lives here across the country road from Beth.

It's all a very well planned, country, South Alabama, pastoral paradise.

They all enjoy hard work very much and do most everything by themselves.

They budget, they deal in bargains, they give, give, give and work, work, work,

and those are some images of  the results.

I've returned to Scottsboro today.

I have a cold, which Ada gave to me.

That's okay.  I never have colds.

I'm having to shift gears, having been the caregiver to Ada and John for 7 days.

Go back to Grandmother with no Grandchildren living in the house.

It's a major shift in gears - a welcomed one - yet...... 

there's the missing them and the knowing they're where they belong.

When I drove up to Laura Beth's and Scott's house yesterday, 

I almost couldn't stop the car fast enough.

They were rushing out to the car to retrieve their girl and boy.  

The reunion was very endearing.

I loved it.

Images from the week.

My sweet Georgia grandchildren.

Ada and John

I don't get a chance to post weekly photos of my grandchildren in McDonough, GA (south of Atlanta)

I'm going to link you up with Laura Beth's post.

There's been a potty crisis since Christmas - as in "FEAR" - and today the walls came tumbling down.

Ada's promised reward all along has been a makeup set which she picked out at some place.

With every "you-know-what" success, she was promised an hour of playing with the makeup.

Today she was able to have the makeup set a whole lot!

take a look:

http://adaupdates2.blogspot.com/2011/01/shouting-hallelujah.html

What Laura Beth didn't tell about in her post (I know because she texted or called with every victory, per my encouragement.  I wanted to hear!) is that at the most successful moment on the potty, her almost 1 year old John came WALKING into the bathroom.  He's taken 5 steps that I know of - perhaps a few more here and there - but Laura Beth said that it was as if he wanted to have a momentous event also - to share the glory and applause.  That is vintage human nature, isn't it???  So in walked John, to the bathroom - and the applause went from Ada's success to John's achievement.  All on the floor of a bathroom.  Isn't that the life of a mother????  A classic moment.

Here's John, but not walking.  It's a blog post following his pediatric checkup:

http://adaupdates2.blogspot.com/2011/01/johns-nine-month-appointment-at-11.html

That's all for this post.  So thrilled for LB (who had the same fears when she was 3 and we prayed the same prayers in 1985 that she's been praying in 2010-11)