Our Friends!

In the middle of October we had some of our bestest friends come visit us up here: George and Bryn and Kevin and Emilee. Friday, Kevin, Emilee, Caroline, Baby Helen and Aunt Emi, who lives in St. Louis, came over and played while we waited for Spence to get out of class.

When Spence was done we went to the Magic House for the kids to play.

Curious George was there, too! Maddie went thru a little phase of watching Curious George on PBS. It was really interesting to watch it with her to see how the writers write the stories. George is usually trying to figure something out like how the apple cider machine makes cider out of the apples or how to make a hat that's as perfect for him as is "The Man with the Yellow Hat". But they narrate it so well, stating and explaining each step he takes to get to the conclusion. Maddie was just mesmerized by it.

Well, anyway, back to the childrens' museum

The water table . . . and Baby Helen trying to figure out how there are so many of her.

All of us trying out a new hair do.

Spence and Kevin playing. (They are such good Daddy's!)

This is Katie singing her favorite song "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" for Aunt Emi.

It was the Magic House's 30 birthday so the girls got to decorate and eat cupcakes along with decorating a birthday hat.

On Saturday we met up with Geoge, Bryn, Elizabeth and Hattie in St. Charles for the "Life Is Good" festival. Kevin and Emilee met up with us a little later.

The girls with Lewis and Clark outside of the festival.

The girls got to do lots of fun stuff . . .

. . . picking up balls so they could be dumped on their heads (it's amazing what excites them), face painting, bouncing, parachuting, we got to eat festival food, ball tosses, etc.

Maddie's photograhy of me and Katie. A family photo by some girl who didn't know to tell us when. My four year old did a better job! :)

We ended our weekend with a birthday party for Elizabeth who turned 4. I forgot my camera so I have not pictures! But the girls all had such a good time. Bryn cooked us all dinner, decorated pumpkins with them, they got to color with markers on big sheets of paper, eat birthday cake, and watch Cinderella.

We had a great weekend with our friends and were so glad they could come up to visit us!