My week in Tucson

 There was a day when we were at the Airbnb that I was afraid that I might need to go back home with the guys instead of staying an extra week at Rebeca's house.  The reason was that her dog Spot just didn't seem to like me and would growl and bare his teeth sometimes.  It was scary!  But both Rebeca and Jason promised that they would keep Spot either in another room or outside.  The really wanted me to stay the extra week.

After the guys left on Saturday, I decided my strategy with Spot would be to not look at him at all whenever he was around me.  That had seemed to work a few times before.  Then, that evening, I was doing something with Scotty in my room and I didn't know it, but Spot was next to me, sniffing my leg. My first thought was oh no!  But I ignored him, and after that, we got along very well!  Thank goodness!!

The whole week was a busy but fun one.  The days consisted of taking Scotty to school, coming back to the house to have breakfast and get some things done, then going out to either Safeway, Target or Costco.  The mornings passed fast and before I knew it, the time to leave to pick up Scotty from school always came quickly.  On Wednesday, after picking him up, we did our usual tradition of going to Ace to pick out a toy.  Scotty picked out a dragon he had been wanting, and picked two cars for me to take to Leo.

He was happy this day because he had been able to recite all 50 states to his teacher and got this flag!

I miss picking this boy up from school.  I usually waited in a line of cars for 30 minutes for him.  At first I thought I would not like being so long in that line, but it was a good time to text people, or read the paper, or catch up on Twitter.  The time usually passed quicker than I thought it would.

Then once home, we'd have a good 4 hours until it was time to fix dinner and Rebeca would get home.  We usually played games, worked on his Kiwico boxes, played outside, did drawings and lots of other fun stuff.

This boy right here is the very reason I would drive for 2 days by myself - just to see him.  I can't believe how he has grown.