A Visit from Aunt Patti and Aunt Judy

We recently had the pleasure of having Aunts Patti and Judy stay with us for a fun-filled weekend. The kids had a blast and so did Adam and I. Between softball games, a walk to the ice cream stand (a must for all visitors at our house), Maryland lacrosse, board games and bowling the girls also practiced some very important educational skills- Preakness style. The girls both really love horses and so what a perfect opportunity to practice reading, writing and counting.

Aunt Patti had the girls write the names and numbers of the horses on a piece of paper then cut them and put them in a flower pot. After that, everyone contributed a few dollars (counting money of course is a very valuable skill), and picked two names out of the pot. The excitement when the race began was contagious..... everyone was jumping up and down cheering for their horses (number recognition as you watched for your horse....see how educational gambling is). In the end, Maddie was the lucky winner of the day with Rachel Alexandra coming in first. She was quite excited to win and smiled from ear-to-ear. Aunt Patti made sure that all of the little ones won a little something.... isn't she sweet!! The girls had so much fun and cannot wait to do it again. What a special memory for them... gambling with their Auntie :)

We had a big first for Gracie while Patti and Judy were here.... Gracie took her very first bottle of breastmilk - Hooray!!!! She would not take a bottle from Adam after several attempts and we had almost given up until Patti said she wanted to try. Gracie did fine as long as I was not in the room and she did not hear my voice. I'm happy to report that she now takes a bottle from her daddy as well.

No trip to our house would be complete without bowling. Aunt Judy turned out to be a ringer... I think she secretly bowls in her "spare" (ha, ha, ha) time although she doesn't "strike" us as the bowling type (okay, okay, that was Adam's). Our little guy is getting to be quite the bowler. He throws the ball down the lane with no issues and recently bowled a 101... tying his daddy and beating all the girls. Can you imagine what he could do with a duck pin ball???

So, you can see how much fun it is to visit..... any takers???