grandma jeanie and aunt karen come to town

Grandma Jeanie and great-aunt Karen came to visit us this week, and boy were the boys excited! We don't have visitors often, so Grady especially always lives up the extra attention. We don't even have to be doing anything special, and he just has a smile from ear-to-ear the entire time.

Grady hadn't seen 'gamma Jee' or Karen since the end of summer, so it was a lot of fun. We spent most of our time visiting, reading books and playing around the house, going out to eat (quiet a few times ;) and shopping. I felt bad - had been sick for the last week and still not feeling great, so wasn't the best host :(...didn't even cook, boo, so we ate out a lot.

I also took Grady to another Friday gymnastics class (rather than our usual Thursday) so they could all see him do one of his favorite activities. He kept looking over at everyone throughout the class to make sure they were watching him :)

gamma jee and drewski watching graders at gymnastics

showing off his moves on the balance beam and air tramp

flying!

I accidentally cut off his feet. he was jumping off a 'mountain' (stack of mats)

grady and drew got a lot of new books from grandma, grandpa and karen & grady LOVED them. karen and grandma read to him every day, and grandma read to him each night before bed. by the time they left he knew half the words and you can't skip a page without him noticing.

hugs and kisses
xoxo
 

puzzle time

Happy 27th birthday Kristin!

kristin's beautiful cake her coworker made her

kristin opening presents.

grady spent the whole time playing angry birds on aunt karen's kindle fire. I think he thought it was one of the coolest things ever.

so big!

drewski's favorite ball. my sweet baby boy.

Sad to see them go, as usual. I was thankfully blessed with amazing in-laws and we will all miss them. Grady woke up this morning going about his day as usual. I am glad he is not to the age yet where he has a hard time saying good-bye. Makes me sad though watching him run to the stairs and yell down the hall "karrrr, where are you!? gamma jeeeee, where are you!?"

For now, we say, SEE YOU THIS SUMMER! :)