Surprise visit from Natalie and Charlie!

Please keep Marcia's (my brother's wife) family in your thoughts and prayers. Thursday night her parent's home was struck by lightning while they were out of town. We are all thankful they were not home and everyone is safe, however they have lost pretty much everything in their home. Scott and his family drove up Friday to help. Mom and I helped look through the ashes to look for anything that made it Friday and have been helping by watching the kids since then.

Kay had a great time with her cousins. She loved watching Charlie and Natalie. She was so funny and wanted grandma to hold her sippy cup like she was holding Natalie's bottle. Three kids under the age of three and a dog makes for a crazy house, lots of diapers, and a lot of laughs! Charlie would often tell Kay that she was being "too loud!" when she was babbling.




We had Marcia's family over for a taco dinner on Saturday night after they picked their mom up from the airport. It was nice for everyone to be able to relax a little on the porch. Marcia and her brothers showed their mom the video clips from the news about their home.



Kay continues to get into everything. She thinks it is hilarious when we put things on her head and then she tries to knock them off. Her reach is getting much longer and I am finding I have to put things even higher up. We had the piano open for Charlie to play with this weekend. We had Charlie down for nap and I heard piano music. I panicked thinking Charlie somehow got up. When I ran down the hall Kay was on her very tip toes playing!




In other news, my doctor gave the ok to stop wearing my boot. I am supposed to take it easy for the next four weeks and then can resume all normal activities. It has been a weird summer because I have not really been able to wear flip flops or sandals at all! I am hopeful that I will be able to take some walks with Kay soon!