4th of July weekend

This post is a bit out of order, but we just realized that we never told everyone about our busy weekend over the 4th of July. The babies had a very full social calendar. First, on Thursday night our friends Mike and Jill drove up from Roanoke on their way to New Jersey. They kindly brought us dinner from our favorite Thai place and helped to hold and feed babies. It was great to see them, since every time we had tried to see them over the winter there was a snowstorm.

Then Friday morning my parents and I took the babies into my office to meet a few colleagues. The babies did great for awhile, and Abby was particularly social. But then Lucas melted down, and I learned that nothing clears a room faster than threatening to breastfeed.

On Friday night our friend Becky came to meet the babies for the first time. She brought some adorable outfits for the babies, as well as dinner. (Notice a theme here? The price of admission to see the babies is dinner for the grown-ups)

Here is Becky holding Abby:


And here is Abby modeling one of the new outfits:


On Saturday our friends Matt and Meg drove down from the D.C. area on their way to Virginia Beach. They brought their 4 year old daughter and 11 month old son. We hadn't seen them since last May, when we were in Mexico together to attend a wedding. This year's get-together was a bit different - more babies, less beer. We had a successful outing to the Downtown Mall for lunch(an outdoor pedestrian mall with lots of shops and restaurants). The babies pretty much slept and ate the whole time and were pretty easy to handle.

On Sunday morning we "slept in". I put that in quotes because, although we piled all the babies in bed with us so we could try to sleep longer, I'm not sure any of us actually slept. It was a fun family moment to have everyone cuddling together though. Not sure what we'll do when the kids are bigger - we should have gotten a king size bed instead of a queen! Here's a picture of what a Sunday morning looks like after a late night of partying with babies:


Kind of different than our Sunday morning "hangovers" from 10 years ago!

Then Sunday afternoon we went over to my mom's apartment so I could hang out at her pool and Jason could take a bike ride. It was a very nice day.

We haven't taken the babies out since then. Maybe that's why they were so fussy all day today - maybe they're getting a little cabin fever.