Birthday visitors!

On Tuesday, my little boy will be 5 years old! So hard for me to believe. Grandma and Papa came to visit and celebrate AJ's birthday a little early. AJ had a terrific birthday celebration, and was excited about his gifts. After grandma and Papa left, I asked him what he liked best about their visit. He said he liked playing basketball with grandma on his team against Papa and he liked that they stayed to watch his football game on Saturday. AJ was so excited to show them how well he can play. We have had so many visitors in the past two months, AJ isn't going to know what to do over the next five weeks until our next visitor is to arrive. AJ only went to daycare one day in the past 4 weeks. His friends have missed him, but AJ has sure had a good time!

1st trip without mom and dad

AJ had a long, wonderful visit from his grandma Kay. She came to our house for a week, took AJ back to Kansas for a week, then came back for one more week to stay with us. AJ was so thrilled to have three straight weeks to play with grandma Kay. While in KS, AJ enjoyed lots of play time with his cousin Kayleigh and some baby kittens at grandma Kay's house. AJ tried to talk mom and dad into bringing a favorite of the kittens home, but we quickly nixed that idea. I discovered that a week apart from AJ was much harder on me than it was on him. He did seem pretty excited to see us after his time away though. Tande has some cute pics of AJ and Kayleigh on her site which can be accessed through a link on this site.

More visitors!

We had a terrific visit from Dave's aunt and uncle, Linda and Doug. AJ was once again thrilled with the extra attention he was able to get. Poor Linda was suckered into reading to AJ within the first 10 minutes of her arrival. Dave got to go with Doug and Linda to a Nebraska game, which unfortunately they lost, but still had a good time.

Lots of company, lots of fun!

Last month, we had a fun visit from Grandpa Eric and family. AJ had so much fun with the extra attention. He especially enjoyed how terrific Logan was to AJ. Logan played with and entertained AJ nonstop!