Last weekend was a busy one for Troy. Saturday morning he attended the 3rd birthday party for his BFFs Nikolas & Valentina. Crafts, games, cakes, socializing with other 2 year olds, you can see from the pictures on Flickr he had a wonderful time. Knowing that whenever we leave Nikolas & Valentina’s house that Troy cries, the moment there was a crowd at the door at the end of the party I scooped him up and we went straight for the car. As I sat him in his carseat I noticed that the twins were standing right next to us. Troy was in a very good mood as we drove off and quickly fell asleep. One hour later when he opened his eyes he started crying for Nikolas & Valentina.He probably thought we were all going somewhere together and was sooooo disappointed! We rested at a 7-11 where he went straight to the slurppie machine and got a coke & cherry slurppie.
Our destination was Maryland, so we stocked up on chips, cookies & fruit. The next 2 hours went by quickly, we watched motorcyles and trucks and listened to musc. Marjorie, Sibel, & Pauletter greeted us and we had a wonderful dinner together.Troy cuddled with Sibel on the couch. Sunday morning Paulette prepared a wonderful breakfast for us, then we got ready for Katie’s baby shower–the main event of our weekend visit. It was an awsome event and Troy was on his best behavior. The pictures say it all. We spent Monday with JoJo who took a day off work to be with us. On Jojo’s refrigerator there are many pictures of Troy. In one of them he kept asking “Daddy saklaniyor?” pointing to a building (actually an ancient Mayan ruin) in the background. So now I know to send Jojo a picture of Atil for her fridge!
As soon as we entered our house in VA he called out “Dede!” Then told me “Dede Istanbulda.” In Maryland Troy asked alot of “nerede” questions for the people I always tell him are in Maryland but we did not see: Dost nerede? Kelley nerede? Max nerede? Followed by “Istanbulda?” So he knows there is a place called Istanbul, a place called Maryland, a place called Virginia Beach. I thought this was a great intellectual development until tonight when he asked “Komur nerede? Istanbulda?” But then he smiled and we knew he was exaggerating!
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WOW! You guys did so much last weekend. The photos are great, thanks for posting them. And our funny little guy is writing his own jokes already! His “Komur” joke is hilarious I think.