Grammie and PaPa Visit!

My parents arrived for their first visit about a week ago. We had been counting down the days for over a month! Mom kept saying how happy she was to be able to "picture us" from now on where we live. We shopped in Old Town, ate ALOT of ice cream (rotating our loyalties between Cold Stone and Kilwins), and played at the house. Mom and Dad brought the kids an old black and white Rin-Tin-Tin movie, and we enjoyed a few episodes each night before the kids went to bed. Darin and I loved playing card games and visiting with mom and dad late each night.

"Cheap entertainment": forcing Grammie to play MarioKarts on Gamecube with Caleb. I wish there could be sound effects for this picture. Mom SCREAMS at every harrowing curve! (mom, you're such a good sport!)

Meghan discovered that PaPa was more than willing to "share" (i.e., "take so she didn't have to eat") the hominy from her chicken tortilla soup.

We interrupt this visit to bring you Caleb's first stitches: During a run-in with an icy slide on the school playground, Caleb got a nice little 1 cm laceration to the chin. 3 stitches later, however, his smile was still up and running! Getting out of school the rest of the day, and going to a movie with PaPa and Meghan while Grammie and I went shopping seemed to speed along his recovery. 

Look who's ALMOST 5! We had a little cupcake celebration almost 2 weeks early, because Meg wanted "Grammie to be there to see my presents and meet my friends!"

Dad, Meghan, and I discovered a rather unique rock-carving at a nearby park. (reduced to mere toe-jam? ugh.)