Catch Up Part 2: 4th of July

Last year for the 4th of July we visited our good friends, the Rondeaus in South Carolina. We had so much fun we decided to do it again this year and start a little tradition. My parents also come out to South Carolina for a family reunion so we get to see them as well. Of course we had great fun and the Josie got to play with Noah again! When we told her we were going to see Noah she kept saying, "Greg... Noah...Greg...Ca." Of course "Ca" is Alicia. She eventually put another syllable in and she now says Lisa. It was fun to watch the two play together. Josie followed Noah everywhere and wanted to be right next to him. Poor Noah was a trooper and handled it well. She is definitely a social butterfly.

This picture cracks me up. Josie is playing with his emergency ride on truck. Noah sees her and immediately crawls over there. He wants to play with it and squeezes his way through. Josie is so excited to see him that she shouts, "Noah!" She puts her arm around him as she would greet a friend then continues to play with the toy over him.

Their matching shirts this year were homemade complete with their own hand prints and pipecleaner fireworks! Even the Dads helped with these. All the hands were necessary in pulling this off!

Matching monkey pajamas are so fun! We can only get away with this for so long! Be sure to watch the videos in the "more videos" section of our blog. I am having problems loading them onto the blog. For some background I love how Josie just followed Noah everywhere and wanted to be with him. I had to literally pull her off of him at one point. He was standing leaning on the coffee table and she was sitting leaned up against him. He goes along with it sometimes, ignores her at others, and just flat out crawls away from her after a while. Josie doesn't quite get the hint and there is one video where Noah is trying to push her away for some space. Still our little Josie is oblivious to his unsubtle cue and thinks its a game. They did have fun playing together.

Grandma and Pop

She had a fun but short visit with Grandma and Pop. Josie also got to see her first movie in the theater, Eclipse. How will I explain to her in the future that it was a movie about a girl caught in a love triangle between a vampire and werewolf? Grandma went with us and it was fun. It was our first movie since Josie was born and she actually did really well. Grandma brought some graham goldfish and that kept her happy most of the time. She liked the action parts but not the slow talking scenes. I knew it was time to take her out when she is leaning far forward then far backwards over and over and talking bored out of her mind. I miss the last 30 minutes or so but I went the next day by myself to see it again. We only got to see my parents for the day but it was well worth it! It was time to head back to see Greg, Alicia and Noah.

Grant finally got to play a round of golf after unsuccessfully finding an affordable public one near home. He and Greg enjoyed some of male bonding time. Thanks to growing up with my dad who is from South Carolina, we knew we had to have boiled peanuts and some peaches. They never disappoint!