Shades Visit in March

The Shades came for a visit this last week.

Drew had a conference to fly out to, so they

drove to the Philly airport and dropped

him off on Thursday afternoon.

Then Shelly and the girls came to stay

at our house. Drew returned late Friday

night and the whole family stayed

until Sunday morning.

Here are a few pictures of the girls

that I managed to take

during their stay. I didn't get many

pictures, I was too busy chasing and playing

with the girls the whole time.

Gaga, Heidi's mom, gave us this bike she has had

for awhile. We put some training wheels on it

so we can keep it for when the girls come.

Isabelle has her own bike at her home, but now

she can ride a bike when she visits. The bike came

with the helmet and the squeeze-horn

that Isabelle likes to use.

I took Isabelle to the park one day and she

had to play on everything.

She wouldn't take off the helmet for awhile.

Being a typical girl, she doesn't like to

just use things like she is supposed to.

She likes to 'fight the man' by walking up the slide...

... and going down the slide face-first.

Here she is just climbing the side-rail

trying to get me.

She also likes climbing to the top

of everything.

Going down the tube-slide, face-first.

And climbing back up the tube-slide.

Isabelle has about mastered everything

at the neighborhood park, except this

rock wall. She needs a little help here.

As much as Isabelle likes to play at the park,

Aubree likes to eat. And that girl can eat!

She has not one, but two hollow legs.

First, string cheese...

... then juice...

... and more string cheese,

with a 'binky' chaser.

She did help me with the laundry though.

But I think her favorite snack is Oreo cookies-

especially the 'double-stuffed'.

She will eat the frosting out of the middle

and then leave the cookie on the table.

But, hey- isn't that what you are supposed to do?

Drew has another conference to fly

out to just about Easter time.

So we will get to do this all over again

in a month. Maybe even spend Easter together.

I wonder if the cat will be recovered by then.