While waiting for the rest of the family to join us, Toni and I took the kids into the Jack Wolfstein store in Ktown. Where they "hiked" around wearing kid backpacks and then decided that the handicap ramp (which was carpeted) was a "slide". Obviously. I mean, who am I to call it a ramp, right? ;o)
You can check out the rest of their antics on my facebook album.
We visited the bakery pretty much first thing after everyone woke up from a nap yesterday. Zave (or, "Boy", as Lily calls him) approves of Germany's culinary offerings :o)
Everyone's recovering from our early morning airport adventure yesterday. It was pretty uneventful, just early ;o) We're so excited to have Cassie and Zave here. Mostly, I'm so excited to have Cassie here to keep me company while the man sleeps and works and does all that man stuff. We have lots of fun outings planned for this week.
Step One: Blow up Aunt Cassie's ball pit. Fill with balls. Watch the children be greatly amused for almost an hour while you take pictures and video and hear laughter and get the chili ready for dinner and finish glazing the cookies. ("You" being all four of the adults in the room, PS!)
Step Two: Top off tummies full of chili with a few yummy cookies.
Step Three: Toss a bunch of fantastic presents at a very excited birthday girl. "A tutu skirt! Stickers! Stamps! A STROLLER!"
Step Four: Get them very tuckered out with all the fun. Put them to bed. Smile at the good time they had :o) Zave leaned over to Cassie during their pre-bed snuggle and said "Birthday."
Step Five: Be amazed at how fast two years have flown by. Amazed. Then run upstairs and hug that little booger till all the giggles escape from her sweet baby-girl-body and then tell her how much you love her.
I have recently acquired a whole container of cookie cutters... pretty much every kind you could think of (thanks for the gift MIL!) so we decided to do some fun birthday cookies to celebrate LJ being almost two!
All of our little duckies enjoyed the post-dinner treat :o)
I've mentioned it before, and I'll mention it again (and again and again and again)...
I'm so glad these three are so close in age. That they get to grow up together. That every family gathering is such an adventure in their eyes. That they'll get to laugh together when they're older about how there was always a camera flashing in their faces :o)
This one is probably my favorite of this "series" ;o)
I really wanted to be witty and try to caption each of these... but for the sake of time you'll have to just imagine what these munchkins were "saying" to each other as we tried to pose them together :o)
Cass and Zave left to go home this afternoon. Something lame about needing to work for a living. Pshhht. It's okay, though... they'll meet up with us for a bit in Cape Cod, too.
Gotta run to get Double Trouble ready for our trip with Aunt Steph to go visit Aunt Bethany at college in Rochester.
This was the best from our cousin photo shoot today... we don't seem to have great luck with these. But that's okay :o) It's still fun to try. And to see how they grow between visits!
We've had so much fun the past three days. Tomorrow we leave Uncle Mike behind and drag Cassie and Zave up to visit Grandma Rawleigh and Co. in Corning. (Note: Zave is technically related to the Aiduk side, but they're considered family by my family because Cass lived with us before Jesse and I got married... make sense? Good.)
Cousin Zave has the coolest toys... things that a Momma of two girls would never think to have around (mental note for future toy-purchases!).
Speaking of the Momma of two girls... she should go to bed now. Since the past two nights her girls have been up for multiple hours in the eeeeeearly morning. Zzzzz ;o)
