The Friends!

My daughter and I are very social, so this post is dedicated to us. Rebekah has been known to celebrate days with "the friends." "The friends" are anyone she is excited about being with, whether they are actually friends or family members.

Let's get started: this is the infamous "Grasshopper Mama"- she is a super-crazy-cool mother of 3 and we met for a play date last week. Her oldest is R's age and was at Mother's Day Out. So we had the pleasure of her 2 girls: Charlie and Joy.

Then, I got have another play date with my 2 best pals from college; Kathryn and Tammy. Unfortunately, I did not get enough photos...

Tammy and her newest addition: Luca (Italian Luke).

Tammy, Isabella Grace (hiding), Rebekah Grace, Sophie Grace, Luke, and unpictured Luca. Do you notice any patterns here?

Josh and I took the kids to a mall play area- these do not fall under the "The Friends" category...sorry.

Aunt Helen is a fave...she sure loves our babies. This one is William.

Uncle Billy is also a fave...he turned 33 last Saturday.

His daughter was very excited about the cake she decorated.

I guess Billy was, too. Do you see the size of his piece of cake?

We then decided to put both girls in side-by-side pallets. I had forgotten that Riley is still in a crib. This was a hilarious experiment, in which Riley repeatedly escaped her open-range pallet and Rebekah followed suit to report on these happenings. She really will be a great room monitor.

Then, we got to see the Barnetts. Frank was Josh's best man and when he and Kristin got married, we became friends!

Their sweet Allison- she is 5 or 6 weeks younger than Luke

Did I mention we love Aunt Helen? Luke leaned in for a hug and it lasted and lasted some more...he is going to make some sweet girl very, very happy. :)

We also love cousin Hayden. He is wonderful with children and they flock to "Haydey."

I was trying to take a sweet pic of Josh and Luke and got this. Evidently in the time it took to snap the picture, something changed.