Cousin Weekend!!

We were delighted to receive as guests the Nicoloff family! Leah, Matthew and Abby arrived on Friday night and we were able to show them all around some of our favorite places in Blacksburg, as we've been longing to do! If you subscribe to their blog, you'll see some repeats. Sorry- but we did have the same weekend :-)

Abby and "Mouse" (Abby's pronunciation of Miles; his new nickname) are fast friends. Demure tub picture? Just after Miles kissed her :-)

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Saturday morning, the library!

For storytime and juiceboxes.

Leah's Christmas gift to Miles: A Noodle Box! He is finally starting to get that the point is not to get as many noodles on the floor as possible! He runs his cars in the rough terrain and feeds noodles, one at a time, to his plastic T-Rex.

What a beautiful family.

At Price House Nature Center, discovering the animals...

... and friendly art supplies. Wish we had gotten a picture of the puppet show Jon and Matthew improvised.

They got a LOT of play in.


After naptime, we had just enough sunshine left for an evening walk.

I live here.

In their Sunday duds. We walked home from church and the kids explored the yard together.

"Look what it does when I drop it!"

Miles is fascinated by the frisbee.

Cousin love in the treetops!

I seem to remember the opposite happening not too long ago...

Yes, there it is. July.

Miles shows Abby one of his favorite tricks.

Another lovely family, I think.

We did a really quick sunset trip to Hand in Hand park on Sunday night. Other than these sparse minutes on the "Chomp-Chomp," their equipment interests did NOT overlap.


I couldn't really help including this one. Best video of the weekend (and yes, there were several). Abby and Miles have a jig-off!

Miles seemed distinctly disoriented this morning. We think he was looking for Abby :-)