Weekend fun

The kids had a blast this weekend visiting our friends the Davisons. Thomas and Truman are just 6 weeks apart in age, and there is only a 3-week difference between Claire and Talia. Needless to say, it was odd not being pregnant while Julie was expecting her 3rd arrival, Elise Marie, who came 6 weeks ago!
My goal was to make things a little easier on Julie, so I tried hard to take on older-kid-management, meal-assistance, and baby-Elise-holding duties. Even though Truman and Talia had a yucky cold, they did pretty well. Truman and Thomas spent most of the weekend in another world - they reenacted all sorts of Super Mario levels and had lots of "adventures." Claire and Talia also played quite well together, although much of the time Claire was chasing after the boys while Talia was in her own princess world. Talia was in love with, who else, herself! Julie has a large floor-length mirror in front of which Talia spent a lot of time preening and dancing while wearing Claire's dress-up clothes.
The kids decorated crowns for themselves and also snowman ornaments, which I am looking forward to hanging on my tree. Hopefully we can try to continue the ornament-making tradition for years to come!