In the morning, while Mama and Dada were getting ready, Xander started his day in a good mood with is friend Scout.
It helped that Mama hid Scout in her backpack for most of this trip so when he was on meltdown overload before our visit with Great Uncle Rick, Scout could calm him down a bit... see, happiness!
After working out some scheduling kinks, Mama and Dada took Xander to go meet his Great Uncle Rick - his Mama's Mama's Brother.
Rick lives in an assisted living facility for the mentally retarded. He has lived in similar facilities for most of his life. We don't get to visit Rick that often since he lives so far away, but we were pretty sure he'd be excited to see us and to meet Xander. When we got to his house, Rick was just getting back from an activity and it was chow time, so we joined him in the dining room.
Then Xander wanted a snack too, so he had some milk.
Mmmmm! Milk!
Later, while Xander was discovering the ceiling fan and shaking his head around, Great Uncle Rick saw him and burst out laughing. It was probably the highlight of the visit, tied with some great hugs we all got from Rick.
Here's Xander, beaming with excitement that he found the ceiling fan, and it was on and spinning fast!
We weren't able to stay with Great Uncle Rick for much of the day, but we were able to visit with him, give him some paper and pens (he's always asking for those item) and by the end of the visit he was calling for Xander when he would run out of the room. We made some great memories and hope Great Uncle Rick had as much fun visiting with us as we did with him!
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