Growing Snowflowers

Piper has this cousin Rhys, he's six months older and quite a ham. This week Nana Pam & Papa David flew all the way from West Virginia to Colorado, picked up Rhys, then flew to Minneapolis to visit with us. The kiddos have been inseperable, despite an occasional spat over who gets to ride the bike, and who gets the push car.

Nana & Papa took the kids to the zoo, it was the first time in about 8 months Piper has agreed to sit in a stroller! They had a great time feeding the animals and hanging out with the Grandparents.

The next day they went to the indoor park at the Mall of America, they went on a bunch of rides and had a blast.

Then there was bathtime, always fun...Piper got to see how Rhys pees...standing up, and guess what, she tried it herself...in front of Mike, who by the way was totally weirded out by that whole experience! funny.

Overall it has been three days of pure, undiluted fun.I just wish we all lived closer!

Here's a fun fact for those of you who don't know. Cousin Rhys is also half New Zealander! How did that happen? Well, Mike's sister Laura married a kiwi too! So there are two New Zealanders in the family and all the kids will have duel citizenship...cool huh! We are just waiting for Mike's little sister to marry an Australian so that we can have REALLY interesting family vacations!