Saturday, April 10, 2010

Ellen Came To Play

Almost every year Patrick heads to visit good friends in Ohio and watch some of the NCAA basketball tournament. In order to keep me happy (sane) he usually flies out a family member to hang with me while he's gone. Ellen came to play. Oh, the fun we had!

This isn't the greatest picture but I want to remember Maggie and Ellen playing with the play-doh. I'm pretty sure Ellen loved it!

We shopped, ate, stayed up much too late laughing and talking. When the kids were awake, general craziness ensued.

Does it look like Maggie had a good time with Elba?? You bet. One morning she woke up and started her morning routine before stopping dead in her tracks to exclaim, "WHERE is Ellen?". I assured her Ellen was still her and would wake up soon enough. Poor Ellen was subjected to our super early morning routine. We really did try to keep the noise down.

Ellen outfitted Caroline with some keys and a purse to run some errands on her toy car thingy.

Still finding her way under furniture. Hey, at least she's semi-mobile.

4 comments:

Mamo said...

What a great idea. I love that, hubby leaves and you get help. I love the crawling backwards - she is too cute!

AJ said...

What sweet girls. They are lucky to have such a good auntie.

Melissa said...

There's nothing like family visits! Your girls are so stinkin' cute - was fun to see them in person, if only for a fleeting moment. :)

Amberly said...

Your girls are adorable! They both look so much like you!