Visitors!

My sister and her family, including her newest - six-week-old daughter, Tessa came for a lovely visit this weekend. There are a few pictures toward the end of the post with the cousins. My brother-in-law will eventually get us some pictures he took of pool time with the kids and group pictures of all 5 kids. Until then, enjoy some pictures from before and during the visit! Clinging to Daddy - Claire wouldn't let me get a good picture of her in the pigtails. She LOVES this hawaiian dress, and she LOVES her daddy!
Evie Jane in her Hawaiian shirt as well.

Sorry it's a blurry picture, but that's the way it goes in the jumperoo. Evelynn still doesn't jump at all. She twirls some and is perfectly happy to be in the jumperoo, but I guess she isn't a jumper.

This is a crazy picture. The other morning, Claire decided to do this with her baby dolls. She had some in the living room and the playroom all layed out like this. She said the babies were on blankets (they're on big sheets of paper which she uses to draw pictures).

Claire looks 100% Peel in this picture - very like her Daddy, Aunt Lara and her cousin Sara to me.

It was a shame this picture turned out blurry - it was still too cute not to share! These two play so very well together already. I'm sure it will just get more and more fun as they grow up.

My little chunk :)

She still looks like she's got a lot of hair in this picture. I thought it was mostly going to stay, but it appears that it is falling out pretty rapidly lately. Claire's was very thin at this point, but hers came back in blonde so she looked much balder. Evelynn's is growing back in at about the same rate as it is coming out, and it is still very dark.

I just liked this little look from Claire.

It's hard to get a good picture of both girls side by side. Claire was being really silly, but this was about as good as I could hope for - it's still a fun picture!

And then of course, Claire decided that Lucy (Evelynn's doll) and BeBe (Claire's doll) should be in the picture too. Claire tends to hold Evie's hand anytime I take their picture together. Not sure if she's trying to be super cute or if she just doesn't want E smacking her in the face (which happens a lot lately because Evie likes to throw her arms around).

Claire with cousin Mercy, who said at end of visit, "I love her (Claire) so so so so so so much!"

My favorite moment of the week with Mercy was just after they got in. She was babbling incessantly at Claire and Claire was just following her around the house listening. Mercy ended a long string of talking by asking, "Do you want to play in here with me, Claire?" to which Claire enthusiastically replied, "YEAH!" Mercy whipped around and said, "You can TALK?!?" So so funny!Tessa and Evelynn - about 3 and a half months apart. I have a cousin who is exactly my age (born the same day). We didn't grow up in the same town AND he's a boy, so we've never really been close at all. I hope that these two will be close like Mercy and cousin Stone (who is 3 months younger than her) still are!

Just after nap on day one. Both my girls napped and slept well while cousins were here wearing them out in the mornings.

Claire with cousin Wyatt. They played very well together. He is a year older than her. Wyatt dragged Claire around the house - literally. We kept having to remind him to let her go and just ask her if she wanted to come with him. Most of the time she would follow right along. The very last morning, she was a little too tired and decided to cling to Mommy instead, but they had a good time.

While Wyatt and Claire were in the wagon, Evie Jane enjoyed some time in the swing outside. She's such a happy little girl!

And one last picture of Evelynn and Tessa.

What a lovely visit!