Saturday, March 07, 2009

a visit with friends

Rachel and I have been gone most of the week visiting our friends Allecia and Kaden, who now live out of state. We got home yesterday afternoon, and while we had a great visit, it's also really nice to be home.

Rachel and Kaden had big fun playing together all week. Rachel was excited to see his train table and play with all of his dress up hats and costumes.

She got to look at his Thomas the Train "madzagine," which she loved. She also enjoyed listening to Kaden's music and has asked to hear the song, "Puppy at the Pound" several times since we've been home! I'll have to see if our library has that one.

They had a great time at the children's museum, including a new Lego castle exhibit.





















(for some reason I'm having trouble moving my pictures around, so I can't put them in the right order, but you get the idea....)

Allecia and I enjoyed catching up, cooking five dinners together to put in our freezers for future busy nights (our first real attempt at freezer cooking, which was actually pretty easy, but I don't know if I'd want to attempt it by myself--we'll see), and cake decorating (I helped her learn how so she can decorate Kaden's John Deere birthday cake for his party next weekend).

Baby Marin has grown by leaps and bounds since the last time I saw her, and Rachel enjoyed holding her a couple of times and giving her kisses. She didn't like it when the baby cried, though. Rachel is super sensitive (hmmmm....wonder where she gets that?) and can't stand it when other people are sad or upset about something. She was almost in tears every time Marin cried.
We can't wait to see them again when they come visit us in a couple of months.

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