Bonus points if you can name that popular children's movie...
Anyway.
As you well know by now, Haley loves to visit her Grandparents. She decided shortly after they left - when they were here for Christmas - that she wanted to go to their house. She drove us crazy about it, like she does, for several weeks and then she didn't.
I don't really know why, but we had a reprieve.
Last week she really enjoyed talking to them on the phone. It has become a ritual. My husband either calls them or they call him every Thursday. On those occasions he brings a phone to Haley and puts it on speaker and she joins in the conversation. She usually just listens and giggles, but occasionally she speaks.
Actually what she does during most of the call is she runs and finds me or her Big Sis and excitedly tells us that Grandma and Grandpa are on the phone. We say something like; "That's cool Haley, go and talk to them." or "I know Haley, it is exciting! Go back in the other room and talk to them."
The next day during breakfast she tells me all about the Call. She recites what they talked about.
"Call. Grandma and Grandpa. Heather. Tree Farm."
Last week she excitedly talked about the Call every day afterward. Then she wanted me to write something on the calendar that we keep on the refrigerator. I don't know if she wanted me to write the next time that they were going to call, or something else.
It started ramping up. I came to realize that she was remembering that back in January I might have pointed to the February calendar and talked about visiting Grandma and Grandpa.
I have been avoiding the actual conversation.
I have been reluctant to tell her that we are planning to go up there. I almost broke down the other night. I figured that the way she was nagging me might be worse than what she would do if she knew we were actually going. I was getting the vibe from her Father and her Big Sis that I shouldn't say anything though.
She was focusing on the Call so I focused on it too. I told her that she would be able to talk to them on Thursday, even though they probably weren't planning on calling because they will be seeing us on Friday.
That seemed to satisfy her.
Then I tried to decide how I would tell her that we were actually going to Grandma and Grandpa's house. I didn't have it on the calendar, so I thought maybe I should put it on there. Should I do it while she was in school, or should I do it when she got home so that she would see me do it?
Then I had this idea. Let's get Grandma and Grandpa in on it.
I asked my husband to email them and have them call us last night, instead of Thursday night. I wanted them to ask Haley if she would like to come up to their house. I thought it might be fun for her to get an actual invitation.
So that is what they did. They called us. Haley got to talk to them (a day early) which she was excited about. She really wanted to talk to them when we were getting in the car to go to her Confirmation Class. So it was nice that when we got home and walked in the door we could hear that Dad was talking to them.
They asked Haley about church and then they talked about Heather and then they told her that they were lonely and they wanted to know if she would come up and visit them at their house. She said "yeah." She was smiling. She was thrilled. She was relatively quiet though. I hope they weren't offended.
After she hung up she threw her arms up in the air and screamed "Grandpa's House! Yay!" She gave me a double high five, or ten, as it were and she yelled "WOOOO!" Then we went over to the calendar and I wrote Grandpa and Grandma's across Friday and Saturday. She yelled "WOOOO!" again and ran out of the room and up the stairs to her sister's room. She told her "Grandpa and Grandma's house." and then she came back downstairs and told me again. She said "WOOOO!" several more times followed by high tens(?)
So I think she is excited.
I did finally convince her to go to bed and then this morning she started packing.
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