after dan and meg’s wedding, my brother tom came to spend almost 4 days with us. it was FANTASTIC! here is a classic uncle tom picture – reading to the girls and drinking a gumballhead.
I loved having tom here because he is so chill (hello – opposite of me!). he just goes with the flow. one morning we went to the RAC and I put the girls in childcare and charlie and uncle tom played in the neighborhood for almost 2.5 hours! they had a blast and I got a great workout. that afternoon after naps we took the kids to the RAC pool to go swimming. on thursday morning, charlie had preschool and I had a meeting so I took charlie to preschool and then headed to my meeting. uncle tom volunteered to hang with the honey badgers. his only concern – a poopy diaper. I told him that if that happened I would drive home and change it. I reassured him that they almost never poop after 9 in the morning so we were good to go. NOT. I dropped charlie off and ran a quick 3 miles before my meeting at 9:30. Just as I had finished my run I got a text…”claire pooped”. so I sped home, changed her diaper and was back to my meeting 12 minutes later. the joys of being 5-7 minutes from home.
after nap thursday we took the kids to quarry hill to look at the animals in the main lodge and “hike” (ok – walk SUPER slow) around. I was really glad to have tommy around because there were a lot of fast bikers on the paths and it would be really hard to keep all 3 kids safe on them alone. here are some cute iphone pics from our outing.
uncle tom and claire.
ellie and claire. investigating every single stick, tree, rock.
hmmm….this might taste ree kinda good.
this is so sweet. uncle tom and ellie holding hands. it was so cute – ellie would want to hold on really tight to your index finger when we were walking. and when you would ask claire if she wanted to hold hands she would give you a snort and quickly shake her head back and forth. then she would take off running. she was not interested in being connected to me one bit.
claire – doing some serious work with the pine needles. she was making piles and more piles and combining piles. at one time she turned around and was chewing on an old pine cone. yuck!! I tried to get all the dirt/pine cone/nastiness out of her mouth, but she still had some in and was perfectly fine with it.
charlie and uncle tom found a cave. charlie is sporting his “go pack go” sweatshirt from nana and g. pops. love football season!
this is a picture just to make us laugh. I had chopped a TON of veggies and pan fried tofu to make a big vat of red thai curry. just as we were finishing up, I told tom to add the rest of the seasoning because I thought it was lacking. we started eating it and were both commenting on how hot it was. our eyes were burning, noses running and we both didn’t remember the seasoning being that hot. then I looked on the counter and saw this…the empty cayenne seasoning! tommy had mistakenly dumped 4-7 TBSP of cayenne into the pot. so that was the end of that. we dumped it and tom ordered papa johns. at least it was funny – we laughed for a long time about it.
more uncle tom pictures. giving high fives.
uncle tom with eleanore doing her natalie morales smile.
now you can see her eyes.
uncle tom tickle time. tommy stayed with charlie this morning and played, strider biked to the park and back, etc while I took the girls to Side By Side.
more play time.
claire and uncle tom.
tommy took these pictures of charlie when they were on their strider bike outing to the park. from what I learned from tommy – in this picture he would have charlie push his bike to the top of our neighbor’s front lawn and ride down the hill. I think he was trying to teach him to mountain bike.
coming down.
tom brought a cliff bar along for a snack. good idea!
on the way home.
wrestling honey badgers can be hard work.
it was so precious. for some of the time we were hanging around the house – tommy would lay on the couch or sit on the couch. the kids loved it and would just climb all over him, bring him books, or lay with him like charlie is here. how sweet!
he even copied uncle tom by crossing his feet. thanks uncle tom for spending some of your precious vacation with us. we loved the company!
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