Grandma Sue Visit, May 2012!

May 10th, the kids chill out and wait for Grandma Sue’s flight to arrive. I do have a short video that we’ll look at when we finish off the May entry, which isn’t as far away as you’d think!

Grandma Sue, that night, reading the kids a nice bedtime story. It’s about some Lego Police.

This is the part of the story when Grandma Sue said “a BEAR!” See this image larger.

Me and my girl! See this image larger.

May 11th, Ian’s new-ish toy, a huge battleship. When he hits that lever there, little discs fly everywhere! See this image larger.

May 12th, here comes a whole bunch of pictures from the park, and then the front yard!

Ian looking sort of sly, or perhaps like he just burped.

For a bit, Ian shrank to super tiny size. No he didn’t. See this image larger.

Nina goes for a spin! Mommy’s pretty! See this image larger.

*Wahoo!* See this image larger.

I used to walk him along on this with my hands under his armpits to steady him. He’s growing so quick! See this image larger.

Has anybody… seen… I had a couple kids around here somewhere… See this image larger.

Somewhereeeeee over the rainbowwww See this image larger.

Grandma Sue gives Nina a needed boost!

And here Nina is just sort of trying to make Grandma Sue panic a little. See this image larger.

Two cute kids. See this image larger.

Back at home, chillin’ in the rocking chair!

This chair used to be Melissa’s when she was little. See this image larger.

This won’t be the last time Ian cons Nina into making his life a little easier, I think. See this image larger.

“Hi Gramma!” See this image larger.

And now, a ridiculous number of images of the kids running around and hugging trees, etc. See this image larger.

You’ll have to forgive my captions, I have a feeling I’ll be running out of words pretty quickly. See this image larger.

As I write this caption, (July 5) I’m looking at that lawn with some serious jealousy, yesterday the temp was 104° and the lawn is pretty brittle. See this image larger.

*borrrrrn freeeeeee* See this image larger.

Yes, you’re cute. See this image larger.

Cute. See this image larger.

Still cute. See this image larger.

Adorable cute. See this image larger.

Truly cute! See this image larger.

Oooh, pensive cute! See this image larger.

Your shirt says it all! See this image larger.

Alright, where’d your brother go? See this image larger.

There he is! See this image larger.

Alright both of you?

I like this pose, but I’m not sure what she’s doing here. See this image larger.

Alright, seriously let’s get Ian in here too. See this image larger.

*Brother!* (Lately she’s been calling Ian her “sister/brother.”) See this image larger.

Weee! See this image larger.

This looks like it could be an album cover. See this image larger.

Or this one? See this image larger.

*Mess with my little sister, mess with me, bub.* See this image larger.

Yeehaa! See this image larger.

*Safe!* See this image larger.

*Are we done here?* See this image larger.

*I’m outta here!* See this image larger.

May 14th, Nina hanging out on a blankie. See this image larger.

Ian drew a rocket!

Ian drew the Millenium Falcon! Nice!

Grandma Sue stuck around for a few more days, until May 16th, but as the trip went on, we took less and less pictures. What happened was that Grandma Sue got influenza on her way to see us, and felt worse as the days went by. We were pretty worried about her but she turned out to be fine after some time at home! I got sick pretty much right after getting over my previous illness… and then I got pink eye after that! Yikes! Anyway, we had fun while everybody was healthy, thanks for the visit!