It's good to be home!

We finally pulled up at the rental house a little after 6 this evening, tired, and sore, and happy to be back. We were met at the door by Kian, the most energetic 4 year old I have ever met. He shushed us, saying "you have to be quiet, he's sleeping!" Sure enough, Ryan was curled up on one of the couches in the living room, but I doubt he was getting much sleep with Kian around. We went into the living room and met Mel, Kian's mom, and she told us that he has been bursting with excitement for Jesse and Rianna to get here all day. Despite his previous warnings, he ran into the living room to share the breaking news with Ryan that Jesse and Rianna were here and Rianna was wearing a pink shirt. Apparently that was big news! He and I hit it off pretty quickly, mainly because I allowed him to turn me into a quadopus (I couldn't be an octopus because I have only four limbs) over and over again. Jody got home, said "you're not black!" and told Jesse that he'd been replaced.
When the guys went to get stuff for dinner, Kian and I started playing hide and seek. I told him I would show him the best hiding place, and he exclaimed "oh, do you mean in wreck-it's room? I don't go in there!" He also refuses to set foot in "Jesse's room" or "Jesse's bathroom" for fear Jesse will get mad at him. Anyway, I locked him in a closet for a while, and then he said it was my turn. When I was a child, my father used to play hide and seek with us. He would hide, and as we were searching for him we would find him suddenly lying on the couch. He insisted that if we looked right at him and didn't see him, then he would become invisible, so he would go sit on the couch...honestly, I'm not sure how that was even logical, but we believed it, and Kian is just as gullible as I was. He would stand around the corner and count to five, while I ran around into the bedroom and hid. He spent a good deal of time rooting around the closet, before going and telling Nicole that he believed I had died. When he was gone I ran in and sat on the pile of pillows in the closet, and the look on his face when he came back to look again, following Nicole's advice, was absolutely priceless! The game continued for a while, and now he is absolutely convinced that if I sit on that pile of pillows, I am able to become invisible.
When Jesse got back, Kian began playing hide and seek with him, which kept us all entertained for quite a while. Jesse even climbed out the bathroom window and into the garage, and Ryan put Kian in the dryer.
Currently, Ryan is playing on the leap frog with Kian, and Jody is finishing up the ribs for dinner. Life in this house is definitely more lively with Kian here, and it's good to be home. Dinner's ready, so I guess that's all for now.