Visiting- Juner.

Bank home in Ohio, we spent most of our week visiting our friends and family.

We spent a morning with Great Grandma Wagner. Henry and mama spent some time outside "plowing" her driveway with the little bulldozer, while I played inside with Grandma's toy cowboys and Indians. then she made us a delicious lunch. Thanks for having us!

That afternoon, mama's friend Megan came over with her new baby Lilly. She's not so new anymore and certainly isn't little. Nor was the surprise she had waiting for mama when she lifted her out of her car seat. Let's just say it took three adults and a load of laundry to clean her up.

Mama had a good time cuddling a little girl who couldn't get away from her.

When Lilly got fussy, papa got out the singing snowman and dog. It kept Lilly entertained for quite some time.

There was one thing Lilly loved- Henry. Especially when he jumped all over her and practically kicked her off a chair. She thought that was hysterical.

I made sure she was bundled up and gave her a bunch of kisses before she left.

On Thursday morning, we got another special visit- this one from baby Lorelai.

Lorelai is only 6 weeks old, so she didn't even wake up the entire time she was at our house. Not even when I poked her eyes and Henry insisted on piling coats and blankets on top of her so she wouldn't get cold.

Henry and papa spent the rest of the morning in the barn testing out the remote control helicopter we got from the Tallers. We were banned from playing with it in the house after we started knocking the texture off the ceiling int he living room. (Nice boots, papa.)

Before we left, the Seibert kids came over to play. Tessa decided to eat a LOT of pizza.

Seibert/Meyer party-June.

It is very slow to upload pictures at Grandma Cooper's, so we'll continue to be very far behind on our blogging. But here's the one's we got uploaded tonight.

Tessa spent most of Christmas with her very favorite person- Grandpa!

We were lucky enough to get some snow and mama and Henry headed outside for 90 minutes of fun, despite the fact that we no longer own any appropriate snow gear. Henry didn't even notice and mama just layered on everything Grandma had. Grandpa has all of Uncle Kevin's big metal toy trucks out in the barn and Henry spent the whole time plowing the snow with a bulldozer and moving snow between dump trucks. He only came in when a snowball fight was initiated and he got hit in the face.

Uncle Jim spent some time playing with our little camera and got this action shot? Is anyone holding on to Tessa?

A nice shot of Aunt Jenni and Uncle Jim (Uncle Kevin, you're so weird!).

On Monday, we had family pictures taken (though they are already out of date). The kids were so good that Aunt Jenni took them all to McDonald's for Happy Meals and to play in the playground. We didn't get any pictures because all the kids spent the whole time in the top of the playground.

Mama got this video of me dancing, which has been my favorite thing to do this whole vacation. It really brings the house down.
On Monday night, Uncle Kevin and Aunt Elizabeth played host to the annual Seibert/Meyer party. If you're not familiar, Grandma and Grandpa Seibert were friends with Jeff and Jane Meyer when they were young. Between the two couples, they had 9 kids. Add 6 spouses and 13 kids (and 1 on the way) and you've got a party. There were only 4 people missing from the party. Here's 10 of the kids, from youngest to oldest- Tessa, me, Andy, Heidi, Oliver, Annalise, Henry, Natalie, Evie, and Cole.

Henry loved being with the older kids and was very happy to be included in the 4 and 5 year old secret tent club.

Evie did a great job supervising the meyhem in the basement.

Andy playedd it safe and stuck to this hamper.

Annalise got a picture of mama taking a picture. And Jack shows off some daredevil moves. He's 4 months younger than me and only about 18 pounds, but certainly proved himself my equal. More than once, I tried to take something from him, only to find that he wasn't going to give anything up without a fight.

We didn't have many more pictures of the party because the kids spent all evening downstairs while the adults tried to spend most of their time upstairs catching up with old friends.

Mama did get this video of me dancing with Miss Jane, who was nice enough to continue helping me jump for a long time after we started.