Just Write {86}

It’s not that long of a trip, just a little over a half an hour. All three of them are so tired and the complaints and needs start right away. I’m thirsty, I have to go to the bathroom, Asher interrupted me! 

I’m turned a little sideways in the front passenger seat and talking over Elsie to the boys in the back. They want to know why their older cousin pinches his nose closed when he sneezes. They keep acting it out for me, to be sure I know what they mean. We start to laugh a lot and I glance at Elsie to see her head bobbing and her eye lids dropping. She tries hard to stay a part of the short road trip levity, but sleep wins and her head is bowed too far forward. I take a change of clothes from the diaper bag and try to squeeze them between the side of the seat and her head. She wakes up for a second to scowl and fuss and then her eye lids are too heavy again.

The boys are now talking about their schedules at school. Miles is saying things like “then lunch, then recess, then math, then Spanish…”

and when it’s Asher’s turn he says, Play. Circle rug. Table. Book….No….Look at the teacher….Book….Jackets….No wait….Listen to the book. Jackets. Home.

We are laughing from the front seat and then have to explain that we’re not laughing AT him….he’s just so cute and it makes us so happy. He’s okay with this answer. It doesn’t matter really anyway because this is the best day of his life. He lost his first tooth and it is so tiny and when they all came in at once when he was five months old it was so horrible. He wasn’t going to be five going on six and waiting for the tooth fairy this fast.

Elsie was still asleep when we got home and the boys jumped out past her and I waited outside, watching her.

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