Fun with Cousins

We've been enjoying life with our fourteen month old very much. She has added a number of new signs--all revolving around bedtime routine--that she uses with great accuracy. Toothbrush, bath, moon, book, sleepy(ing)...Tonight at dinner she continually pointed at her sleeping cousin Kate and signed "sleepy." Needless to say, we were quite impressed. She been enjoying being social with her family these past couple of weeks. This week, my sister and her children (Elliott and Kate) have been staying with us, and over the last couple of weekends we've seen a bit more of Eric's family than usual.



She's enjoyed playing with Eric's parents, with his brother and his family (especially with cousin Emily), and with great-aunts, great-uncles, etc. We were all very happy to get to celebrate Eric's grandmother's 90th birthday with her! Annie got to use finger paints for the first time to make her a birthday card (she wasn't quite sure what to think of the paints, but enjoyed demonstrating afterwards how she made a hand print whenever the phrase "finger paint" came up).




Over the last few days, we've enjoyed time with our house guests--Sara, Elliott and Kate. We've enjoyed reading together, playing at the park together, traveling together, playing at home together, bathing together, eating together, playing together, playing together, braving thunder storms together, playing together. Elliott (three and a half years old), Annie (fourteen months) and Kate (almost 6 months) are at quite different stages, but they do very well together and keep each other entertained and hugged!







We will be sad to see them head home on Monday, but it's been a fun way to start-off the summer...