Quiet House... Again

Our daughter, Tiffany and her family left on Sunday and it feels like the air is a little empty in the house.  There's a certain energy that is gone.  I still hear KC's voice chattering away.  "Could you please come play with me?"

Our days have been very busy and we have a lot of catching up to do.  We're still working on our Japan Trip Album.  When I showed it to KC with all the speech bubbles, she asked me to do the same for the album I'll be doing about their visit.  She even told me some things she wanted put in such as "Where's Grandpa?"

KC and her grandpa at Dole Pineapple Plantation

I have a lot of memories to put into her album.  The speech bubble above her head will read, "Let's ride the pineapple train, grandpa!" This is from the Dole Pineapple Plantation.

The night before they left, my brother, Dennis came for dinner.  KC had a great time showing him the photos she'd taken with the camera that grandpa let her use.      We were all astounded at how quickly she learned to use the telephoto, take a photo, review, and delete.  The speech bubble here over Dennis' head could read, "Oh wow!  You take as many photos as your grandmother."

Our last day was spent playing house with KC.  Grandpa has endless patience eating KC's cooking.  No sooner was she done cooking breakfast when she'd start lunch in case she might lose her captive diners.

 And yes, we did take one LAST trip to Mountain Magic Shave Ice at Waikele between Sports Authority and Old Navy.  Interestingly, KC shared a shave ice with her mom and then proceeded to also "share" with me finishing my melona flavored treat also.  This is the first time I've seen her able to eat so much.  She's definitely growing up!

I gave her a bath and Grandpa read her a final story before we drove them to the airport.  At dinner, KC turned to Art and me sadly saying, "I'm going to miss you."

"We'll miss you, too," we told her.  "However, we'll be coming to see you in fall.  Won't that be a lot of fun?"

"And we can Skype!" she laughed.

I found it interesting that like her mother, when it was time to say goodbye, KC didn't want to meet our eyes.  Before leaving the house she gave Aachan (my mom) a sweet hug and said, "Sayonara!"

Art and I will be spending our days now catching up on chores around the house and just keeping busy.  Ed, our son-in-law has just told us that he has upgraded our flight to Illinois to First Class with his miles.  Yahoo!  We can hardly wait.