What a lovely weekend!

As always we had a great time with John's Parents.
They adore Ava and are quite smitten with the new
little one...
Barbie is so good with babies.
It was so nice to be able to hand Norah off in to
her capable hands and do fun things like shower!
Or cook! Or clean!

I know that sounds like sarcasm but I am serious!!
I miss those normal day to day things.
I still "get" to do them they are just so much more
complicated to accomplish these days. It is tricky.

Bob loves these girls too : )
He read approximately 553 books over the weekend.
We went out to breakfast at my work, that was fun &
delicious and Norah even slept through all the excitement.
We got in quite a few good rounds of pinochle
and some not so good rounds too.

Daddy still got some daddy time.
Ava got to play with her beloved phone.

We went on a nice walk to the park which
required bundling up Norah in the cutest little thing:
She got her second chance at the Bjorn, the first
shot didn't go so well.
I tried facing her out for a bit and she fell asleep.
Then she got cold so I turned her around.
I was super impressed with Ava. Not only
could she do all kinds of things at the park that
she couldn't do a few months ago but she also
was a really good girl all weekend.

This whole big sister gig is pretty hard on her,
her requests get put off constantly, she doesn't get
the full attention she is used to and she always has
to push her self into the middle of things.

All in all she is doing great though. She loves being
a big sister and tries to forgive us for not being able to
devote as much attention to her.

It sure is nice having John's parents come and ease
some of that. They give her all the attention she could
want. It makes me so happy to see her so happy.

Great weekend. : )

Comments

viewfromdownhere said…
Aw, who couldn't be smitten with those girls? Glad you got some extra help this weekend and were able to shower :-)
March 23, 2011 at 4:32 AM
Rhi said…
YEAH for grandparents!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM
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