Rhiana and Kyle came to visit for 5 days to help us end our Christmas holiday celebration. Miss Elena was only in the house a short time when Gammy's bowls once again were discovered by another little one. Doesn't that look just say it all? "I'm too cute to be doing anything wrong here."
We had a great time together and once again spent more time at home enjoying visiting and cooking together. We even let the kids get away for a night out with a free babysitter and they hit the clubs in town for a change of pace. It was supposed to be a break -- well as much of a break as you can get with an eight month old around. She was a pure delight though and never lacked for someone to talk to her, play with her, or cuddle. Mister had such a good time taking pictures of her --- he did a complete photo shoot it seems like -- has probably 75 pictures of her and some are absolutely amazing shots. Choosing which ones to put in here was the hard part and I'm sure I picked too many, but I love them all.
We did find time to go out to dinner, shop at the mall (of course), and make a return trip up to the silos for a climbing repeat. It was great -- last time it was 100 degrees in the silo and they sweat themselves to death while loving every minute of it -- this time it was "see your breath" cold in there and the trip didn't last quite as long but we think they had a good time anyway.
I had gotten some Discovery Toys before Christmas and bought duplicates of some of them to have at the house for "visitors" and so soon they were all over the house, but the tables and Gammy's baskets and bowls were way more fun. There were times though when the toys were put to good use --- Rhiana and Kyle made competitions out of them which often times resulted in one person or the other having to do a physical punishment. Elena and I sat in the chair and watched her dad take his lumps.
Getting time to visit was the best though.
We had the chance to have some great talks and get to know each other even better. Feeding time was always good as we tried to keep it quiet and perhaps we could get a few minute nap out of Miss.
It wasn't always to be --- she sure is a little ball of fire.
Bath time turned out to be quite fun as well -- new toys and Mister always there taking pics --- he has a "pink sequence" that he is working at putting finishing touches on that is sooooo good. Here are just a few pictures from the "pink" ones. We are working on kissing.
Here's Miss in her "Elena" shirt --- see the giant E?
Watch the look here --- What's this?
Oh I think I like it.
Are there more of them?
As with all good things --- it has to end sooner or later. Our moments like this would have to wait for another day but the memories would last forever.
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