This past weekend, the girls’ aunties and great-grandma came to visit! The same aunts came when K. was four weeks old, and it was wonderful to have them! They played with the girls and helped me out and fed us, but even more than that I just really enjoyed being able to spend more time with my beloved family.
The first day, there was much playing and getting to know each other. (Though K. has met her aunts and great-grandma before, it had been a while since she’d seen them, so they were “new” to her).
A little bit of one-on-one play time:
Great-Grandma helping K. put a dress on one of her dolls.
N. was surprisingly interested in one of K’s dolls, which looks similar to her. I know that babies like faces, but didn’t realize that they didn’t have to be real people faces.
Auntie M. with N.
K. playing dolls with her Auntie D.
The sisters playing together.
More tummy time. N. has started to actually reach out and touch things purposefully, and doesn’t hate being on her stomach as much. She loves looking out at the world.
And on Saturday, Aunt J. and Grandma and Grandpa also came for a visit. See how excited N. is to see them?! 
Grandma playing cars with K. 
And snuggling with the baby (who she had to pry out of the aunties’ arms to take her turn).
With Grandpa, who probably taught her to stick out her tongue like that.
K. and Grandma, just before our lovely lasagna lunch: 
N. teaching Grandma how to make faces and smile:
Auntie D. crocheted pink sparkly headbands for everyone…even the two guys. Being good sports, they wore them for the photo as well.
My family:
Four generations; three sets of sisters:
K. surprised us this weekend by proving that she actually knows all of the letters as well as the sound that each letter makes! I think that last month she wasn’t sure of anything past A. I’m so proud of the little peanut!
And no blog post is complete without N. looking happy. She’s snuggling with her new doll here. You can see that she’s started to grab things; more times than not she grabs the doll and ends up holding her hand. Coincidence? I think not.
Auntie D. took K. outside and taught her how to build a snowman. K. was a little afraid that she might fall over in the snow, but she had great fun. By the time they came in, the snowman even had a necklace of snowballs. We asked K. what the snowman’s name was. “K.” she replied.
K, getting a good look at her snowman.
K, Auntie D, and the snowman (who was taller than K.)
We brought N. outside and showed her the snowman. She was interested.
And so cute in her little hat (knit by Auntie M) and her pink fleece snowsuit from my friend H.
And here N. is sporting another hat that M. knit. I had emailed M. before N’s birth, concerned that my winter baby’s head might be cold, and she sent me some beautiful homemade knit hats.
N. with Auntie M. and Great Grandma, who N. is named after!
What a wonderful weekend! What a gift my family has given me, and how immeasurably blessed I am!
(And so blessed my girls are too, but they don’t know it yet).
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