Patrick took Karla away to NYC for her birthday on Saturday and we got the fun job of babysitting. We prepared to be home bound - even skipped church since anyplace we went would require two cars. The kids had a blast and we loved having everyone. Katie and Annie were on different napping schedules so we didn't even have too much competeition from the babies for attention. Annie did not love when Katie used her high chair but once we lowered the chair so they could play she got over it. Papa called today looking for some playmates and so the boys ended up going down to the beach in the afternoon and since Annie came along for the ride and made it known who she wanted to go with (it was most definitely NOT me) Papa took her to the beach with him to see Grammy. She was beaming and I was going over in my head all the ways that I am actually a really fun Mom - even I couldn't convince myself that I was more fun than Papa so I'm letting it go! Pat and Karla are coming home soon and than we are all going to head down to visit the folks for a while!
Katie loved Annie's highchair - not that you could tell from this picture!
Bob and the girls hanging out!
I love my camera because it takes pictures in such quick succession - this was just a cute interaction with Ann in her booster seat at the table eating raisins - I am completely enamored with this baby!
And then we moved onto dinner where after painstakingly taking all of the corn off the cob we realized that somehow Annie could manage to get the corn in her mouth better when it was on the cob so we tried it that way. She had a blast and corn never looked so good to me!
Annie figuring out her corn on the cob!
She was like a wild animal with the corn - she could not get it in fast enough!
"Look Mommy, I'm eating corn on the cob." She was so proud of herself.
Another way to eat corn on the cob - annie style!
A half hour later and going strong on another piece! We should see some interesting diapers from this venture!
Abby in her favorite outfit!
I wanted to get a picture of Annie and Katie but they were not cooperating. You can not believe how BIG Katie is - my girl may start to look petite next to her cousin soon! LUckily for Annie she got some of Bob's genes!
Our girls - so cute sitting together!
Katie hanging out in Auntie Mary's green chair - my favorite picture taking spot - in case you hadn't noticed!
Bob thought this was an obscene picture of his precious goddaughter but I thought it was cute. Needless to say that at some point her godfather thinks he may need to have a discussion with her about crossing her legs instead of......well, not crossing them!
Katie - a little out of focus sitting up because her brilliant aunt had to drop the cmaera to keep her from banging her head about 2 seconds later - she's getting there though!
Big kids ready for a movie - they were tired of the olympics but last night was too good for Bob and I to miss so we put them on our bed with snacks and a movie!
The big kids in order of size - that is the way Peter makes them all sit when they are together - he has alot of his grandfather in him!
Pat and Karla said to give Katie a bottle at 7 pm and let her sleep and then wake her at 11 for another bottle and then she would sleep till morning. This picture was taken at 1:15 a.m. as she snuggled, giggled, laughed and played with her godfather. Somehow we had managed to wake her up TOO much and she was not ready to go back to bed after her bottle. We were exhausted but decided to just enjoy it since it doesn't happen very often that we get just Katie all to ourselves. She was so sweet and suggly with us but hopefully she won't expect this when she gets home or we won't ever get her again!
Smooches from Uncle Bob!
Hanging with Uncle Bob and loving it - she was cooing and talking to us for an hour!
Molly could not get enough of Katie and I personally think they look a bit alike - Abby refused to get in these pictures!
More of Molly and Katie. Karla and Pat are on their way home and next week is prep time for the house, school clothes etc - everything to get us organized for the start of school. We leave for Washington on Sunday and have 5-6 days there until we return home for the weekend so our kids are missing the 1st week of school - I know I'm a bad mother but Bob and I made an executive decision to pack the trip full of educational stuff and the teachers agreed that we were okay doing this (and I don't care if they were just pacifyinf us). Besides - I have to present three times and don't think that I could be away from everyone for a whole week - poor planning on the part of this conference as everyone is having school issues!
GNM - ILY!
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