home again, home again, jiggity-jig

We are safe and sound in good ol Tampa. We walked out into the parking lot and inhaled the official stinky swamp smell. AHHHHH... Our trip was really great(albiet extremely short and hard to say goodbye). Goodbyes are so difficult cause you just want to squeeze whatever time you have left from your visit. After we parted ways from Peggy and Rick, we went and found the least congested part of the southwest terminal so that I could feed Abe and Trey could burn off some energy. His run is hilarious. Watching him want to go as fast as he could last night, it reminded me of the "fast-walking" competetion at the olympics. Both of his feet are not off the ground at the same time yet. Once we got on the plane, both of the boys were so visibly tired and luckily Abe went right to sleep. Trey, however, did not. He watched Elmo and Einstein half of the time and then, when his heavy little lids could not resist gravity any longer, fell asleep during the last 5 mintues. Great, huh? It's so nice for him to be awakened by the jolt and screeching tires of the plane landing....it's jarring enough when you are awake and ready for it! I'm going to put some pictures from our trip to Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and some other random shots from the visiting. Abe seems to have gained a months worth of developmental changes over this past weekend. I guess he just needs to be mentally stimulated like a flower needs water. Speaking of him, I hear some talking upstairs....naptime is over for him and playtime is over for me.