Birthday Party?

It was no one's birthday in particular, but since the cousins are never together for each others' birthdays, we decided to celebrate while they were here


They had all been playing outside before dinner. It had just rained and, of course, they all wanted to splash around in the little puddles. As if that weren't enough, we topped them of with some messy pizza, ice cream, and Joe's favorite food in the whole world - cake. They were more filthy than they have ever been! We took them outside again after dinner and let them squirt each other with water guns (although that didn't do much good in the clean up effort).
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We have been having a great time with our visitors - trips to the museum, the children's museum, the pizza store, the zoo... We're keeping them all quite busy, and they're keeping us up at night! It's just too exciting to sleep when you're sharing your room with your best buddy cousin. The twins and Libby are in the same room, too. Miss Libby is sleeping on a big girl bed for the first time and is doing great, although we have found her in bed with Patrick a few times! Patrick didn't seem to mind, but Luke had some protests. They really like their new "mommy" - she's very good at taking care of them!

We have tons more pictures, but we'll save those for another post.
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In other news, the 25th was Aunt Kelli's birthday. This is her first birthday as an official member of the family. Here's our "romantic waterfall picture" taken while Aunt Katie and the rest of the bridal party were getting photos there. Isn't she lovely? (Joe calls that song "Kelli's song") Happy birthday!