Dave, Wendy, Alaina, and Leo: Sunday

Daddy, we miss you! But....while you are gone, we are having fun. Today we went to Rockford to church with Grandma and Grandpa Christianson. Then we went to Great-Uncle Don and Great-Aunt Mary's house to play. The kids had fun playing with their second cousins, Carrie, Dan, and Emily. Alaina played with them for quite a while and was a little distressed when Dan left to go to a study group. After we left Don and Mary's house we went to the park with Grandma Jan. Alaina played there for quite a while and ran off some energy. Grandma was awesome and played with Alaina while I got to talk with Daddy on the phone for a while.

Tomorrow we go into Madison to see Grandma and Grandpa Johnston and Great-Grandma and
Grandpa Hathway. I'm sure I will have those pictures for you tomorrow.

Without further ado, here are today's pictures:

Here is Alaina and Leo's second cousin Dan holding Leo.

Emily helped calm down Leo by making bicycle motions with his legs. (We wish you lived closer and could babysit for us!!!)

Alaina loved "playing" their piano. At one point she was banging away singing "Happy Birthday". She sings that song pretty well now after the 5 or so birthday parties she had this year alone.

Alaina was running around from person to person saying "Arrrr" and pretending to be a monster.

It was my turn to be scared by the monster.

Great-Aunt Mary got to hold Leo today. Last time we saw her, Leo was not liking being held by anyone other than Mommy, but he more than made up for that today and tolerated the "pass the baby" game pretty well.

Leo was grinning with Aunt Mary.

Carrie got home from work just in time to get to spend some time with the kids.

Here are the pictures from the park. Alaina tried climbing the rock wall for the first time while we were up here in Wisconsin. This is her 4th time up and she does fantastic! She doesn't need any help going up at all.

This is a piece of playground equipment that I remember playing on. I was so happy to find that it was still up. They had just put in all new equipment, but they kept quite a bit of the old.

Alaina asked to swing with the baby.

I can just imagine the dialog (In my mind, Leo has the voice of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh sometimes and the voice of Stewie from Family Guy other times. In this dialog, he has the voice of Eeyore.):

Alaina: I want to hold the baby!
Leo: Oh, gee, here we go again.....