cousins!!!

Two weeks ago, on August 10th, some special visitors arrived - Uncle John, Aunt Ginger, Matthew, Lena and Mary! Zane was very excited to have his cousins staying with us... he and Mary were like two peas in a pod. A very busy, fast pea pod. :)







While they were here we got in some time at a few different parks and our mini beach, Alki. Amazingly, Lena and Mary braved the cold water and got all the way in. Zane on the other hand sent me to fetch water for him in his little bucket.





A few times we were out and about, Caden got in some special snuggle time with Aunt Ginger at home.



Caden did get in on a little bit of the action around the house too:



He also got to hang out with his cousins some:






One of the playgrounds we went to has a zip line type swing for big kids, and Matthew and Lena got to check it out while Mary and Zane played on the rest of the equipment and cooked up some spaghetti and oatmeal for me:









Lena had a bunch of successful rides on it before the incident... she accidentally came off of it at the end one time, and now Lena has claimed the first broken bone (her wrist) of all the cousins. Unfortunately she had to spend part of her visit at the hospital getting it checked out and had a giant splint the last day, but she was trooper.

It was very quiet around here after they left when it went back to being just Caden, Molly and me during the day. Molly still has some Matthew withdrawal!