A Trip to Tucson
Greetings to everyone.
After spending the morning hours with Aunt Kathy (who had to return to work Friday), we left for Tucson to visit Rebecca's mom, Xavier's Grandma Penny.
Dave and Penny retired to Tucson last year and have been working hard to reclaim some of their two acres from the cacti-filled desert surrounding their house.
Xavier was helpful in this endeavor and assisted Grandma Penny in putting up another planting box.
Xavier was quite helpful. Watching Grandma shovel dirt, he ran to find a spade of his own. Returning promptly, he went full-throttle into shoveling dirt into the holes of the cinder block. When the holes were full, he proceeded to shovel the dirt back out.
Once the work was complete, he sped off to find more holes to fill in. He ended up throwing dirt clods into the spillways; he liked watching the dirt explode on impact.
Grandpa Dave thought Xavier might like a treat, so he fired up his tractor and offered Xavier a place to ride with him around the yard. Xavier did not like the noise and chose to cling tightly to Daddy instead of riding around the property.
He was re-introduced to his cousin Trista, whom he met this past June in Arkansas. They played hard. Though he worked and played hard, it still came as a surprise that Xavier fell asleep against Mommy's arm while we ate lunch. He hasn't done that in a very long time.