Aleah & Parker's Stay

The Keppy's left early Saturday morning as Gary had to get to work - we sure enjoyed having them stay for a couple of nights and hope they don't wait as long to come back!!

Aleah and Parker are great sleepers at night, although Aleah gets up really early!!  Nothing like getting the day started huh?  Now Parker on the other hand, sleeps till 8:30 and sometimes you even have to wake him up!  He was in the lower level in the office where it's VERY dark as there are no windows and we have a monitor hooked up which of course I took to the loft where we sleep!  Sure enough, I went down and woke him at 8:30 - he seemed a little sad when I first picked him up but by the time I put him in the booster seat and gave him his oatmeal, he was ALL smiles!!  I even figured out how to take a picture of him on my phone ( new to me of course as I never do this) and send it to Jill!!

Aleah's favorite thing to do besides the hot tub is to play "balls" with Papa!!  Since he isn't always around, it's a real treat when he is home and Aleah gets to sit up on the pool table and play!!

The kids LOVED the sand box and I had Glenn rig up a large umbrella that we could move around the sandbox to keep the sun out a little bit!  They also enjoyed doing the chalk on the huge cement under the deck!  We have a second swing down there so I could drink my coffee and watch them!

The bus is always a huge hit with the kids!  Parker thought it was great fun to climb in and out and giggled and giggled when he was inside!

The kids both slept great again!!  We put Aleah up in the loft with us on the Princess bed and still kept Parker downstairs but he only woke up once during the night and then went right back to sleep!!  Aleah was up at the crack of dawn again - sigh - no sleeping in for this Nana!!!  And I'm sure Parker would have slept till his usual 8:30 but Aleah thought I was downstairs (I was in the loft) and went down and woke him up!!  He seemed a little sad at first as he looked around for mom but since he didn't see her, decided that I would be the next best thing!!!

Unfortunately, early that morning Glenn took them down to the sandbox and as Aleah was running across the cement, she fell flat and really scraped up her knees!!  She was a little pathetic for the next couple of hours - needing a washcloth on them, not allowing any neosporin or band aids, and wanting to be carried from place to place!!  It was actually quite funny to try and see her walk - she took mini baby steps for a while!!!  But sure enough, she eventually forgot about them and went on her merry way!!

Glenn was working on the boat that day so the kids enjoyed being up there and watching him at times - he had the CD player going kind of loud and Aleah kept telling him to turn it down as it was TOO loud!!!

And mid-afternoon, Jill and Robby arrived back at our place after having a great time at the wedding and Mt. Princeton - needless to say, the little ones were VERY happy to see their mom and dad!!

Come and stay again Aleah and Parker - you two were real troopers!!!