Quick, before I get Sidetrack'd

Yesterday Little and I were walking down the driveway to get the mail.  As she stood at the end of the drive and I retrieved the mail she noticed her shadow (for the first time that I’m aware of).  She pointed at her shadow and said, “my picture!”

Later in the afternoon I was changing her diaper which had some, shall we say, colorful contents.  I asked, “what have you been eating?”.  She replied, “food.”  Well, duh, Mommy!

That girl makes me laugh!

Rewinding to Memorial Day weekend (uh, yeah, I’m a bit behind here)…

Matt and I talked about going to Nashville to spend Memorial Day weekend with family but decided we weren’t ready to tackle a road trip and multiple visits with a not quite six weeks old baby and an active 22 month old.  So, my family decided they would come visit us.

Saturday morning my parents, brother, and two nephews arrived to spend about 24 hours with us.  I was quite excited to see my brother and the boys; October was the last time I saw them for any length of time (we are separated by about an 8 hour drive).  And I think they were pretty excited to see Little and The Boy.

Soon after they arrived we headed out to eat ribs and then came home to visit and hang out.  The guys threw baseball in the backyard (my oldest nephew is big into baseball and quite good at it from what I hear), we passed around the baby, everyone played around with Little.  And with Matt, my brother, and the two boys in a house together, quite a bit of rough housing took place.

Saturday evening Matt and I were able to go out for dinner and coffee.  It was quite refreshing to step out of the hustle and bustle of our life with the kiddos and enjoy some time together.  Thanks to Daddy and Momma for keeping the little ones so we could celebrate our anniversary.

Saturday night all of our visitors piled into the living room on the couch, an air mattress, various pallets.  It was quite a site to behold; one big family slumber party.  When Little got up Sunday morning she decided it was her job to wake everyone else.  She didn’t have any trouble waking Grandmommie and Grandad, but the boys took a little more work.  She climbed up on the air mattress between them and started saying “wake up, wake up” until they roused and looked at her.  It was too cute watching her try to get the big boys out of bed to play.

It would have been nice to have a little more time together, but it was great to see everyone.  Little thoroughly enjoyed the attention of her uncle and cousins!  And now we are all looking forward to the next time we’ll be together, during our family vacation in the fall.

Events, my children, and the game conspired against me last week resulting in neglect of the blog, my naps, and most of my household chores.  As a result, I’m spending this week feeling a bit overwhelmed by what I need to do as I try to catch up.

There were several things that happened that I want to write about, so the next few days I hope to write some posts “rewinding” to last week.  But right now I’m off to lunch and nap.

Hope you are all having a great week!  Happy June!