More visitors!- June.

We couldn't resist opening up our house to visitors again when our good friends from North Carolina wanted to come see us!

I was so happy to see Miss Becky. I even got jealous every time Audrey touched her. Doesn't she know Miss Becky belongs to me?

Audrey's hair is getting long and she still outweighs me by 4 pounds and a good 2 inches even though she is 4 months younger than me.

Henry and Gracie were glad to be back together, even though they fought the whole time and have both reached a very melodramatic age. Henry would stand by Grace and grace would scream "Henry's pushing me." Seeing that this bothered Grace, Henry would do other things to bother her, like put a foot on her. "Henry's kicking me!"

But despite the squabbles, we think they were glad to see each other.


Proving again that they are the coolest family we know, they brought Henry a kid-sized accordion for his birthday. We all had fun playing on it and mama has vowed to learn how to play the "Merry Christmas Polka" before Christmas. With the accordion and the guitar, we're that much closer to forming a family band and getting on Big Joe's Polka Show.

We watched Jungle Book on Saturday night while we all changed into our jammies. Check out this enormous diaper! Four adults and there's no one to take care of the kids?

On Sunday morning, we all hung around and cuddled.

I've overcome my fear of the rock and roll snowman that plays a killer version of "Deck the Halls." To celebrate, I performed my craziest dance yet.
These two guys look like they stayed up too late playing Rock Band.

Gravity got the best of Mister Andy, so I joined him for a pretend sleepover.

If we thought Henry's running commentary was bad, put Henry and Grace together and mama's head almost exploded. Luckily, the dads took all the kids to the park while mama whipped up a pumpkin-turkey-cranberry sauce with pasta for lunch. (And she might have also gone to Planet Smoothie with Miss Becky- they had a coupon!)

The dads had tickets to the Clemson-South Carolina game, so they dropped us kids off and left. The babies went down for naps, while Grace and Henry actually played quietly! It was wonderful! Then they both got to pick out a video to watch. Thanks to the wonder of Netflix streaming through the PlayStation on our TV, the possibilities are almost limitless. It's almost like having cable TV with a Tivo. Grace picked Dora, which Henry didn't like. And Henry picked Mighty Machines- a show that is entirely videos of construction equipment. Grace immediately rolled her eyes and called it the worst. So much for quiet time.

Thanks so much for coming down to visit us, Grace and Audrey!