We had such a wonderful summer this year. My son and his family from Hawaii flew in and I finally got to meet my youngest grandson. He’s the cutest chubbiest happiest baby I’ve ever seen.
My son and I have our birthdays one day apart, his is on June 13th and mine is on the 14th. We received phone calls from friends and family wishing us happy birthday. Then my cousin Joey who I absolutely love as if she were my sister called on the 15th begging for forgiveness because she forgot to call me the day before. Of course I had to make her squirm so I told her that I would only forgive her if she flew in with my other two grandchildren who lives out in Boston. They flew in on the morning of the 16th!
I don’t know what kind of fantasy I was having when I wanted all of my grandchildren here at the same time but let me just tell you, it was as chaotic as it was fun. I can say it was fun because I was at work for most of their waking hours and then I was the first in bed which meant my cousin, my son and his girlfriend, my daughter and my hubby had all the responsibilities of feeding, entertaining and referee’ing while I was home only enough to enjoy a few precious moments with each of them. Of course I spent more time with the baby because he didn’t fight with the other children. He just enjoyed being in his own little world, feeling content with his binky or bottle.
They were here for roughly 5 weeks and even though we didn’t get to travel and do a lot of sight-seeing, we all had a wonderful time. On the last week of their visit, I phoned a nearby photo studio and set an appointment for a photo shoot with my husband, myself and the 5 grandchildren. Oh, that was fun - NOT. Trying to get all the kids to look at the cameral man at the same time was exhausting. The poor guy took over 50 pictures which I got to view today and we had to scratch a few because someone was either digging his ear or another had her eyes closed or another had looked everywhere but at the camera man.
Anyway, I made a new header pic with pics we took in our front yard that my son wanted to compare with last year’s pic at the same location and also some pics that my cousin and my son’s girlfriend took while we were settng up at the photo shoot. And yep, that’s me and hubby by ourselves acting all young and innocent. 