Nonstop Holiday Partying

We have been enjoying the company of our lovely grandchildren for the past two days. First the twins came to spend the night last night. They stayed through this evening. To extend the party beyond early afternoon we had to convince their mom that we were all still having fun together. She, for some reason, was a little skeptical that we weren't all partied out. Or perhaps it was the twins that she thought might need a break?!

We know how to show the twins a good time. We hauled out the big mirror from storage and some black fabric and we had the best ever photo shoot! What could be more fun than that? Mark will be posting the results in a slideshow in the next day or two. Here's a sample of the twins on black fabric, but without the mirror. The first shot was an attempt to get the twins to lean against the wall in a standing position next to each other, but without two photographic assistants that arrangement was impossible.



Because Kara had so much free time and energy with the babies gone, she made dinner and brought it over here. After dinner we took Bentley out to the hot tub with us while Kara read with the twins and Matt was off doing church service. Then we and Kara watched a couple of tv shows while holding the twins. They quite like tv time because it means lots of cuddle time. Bentley threw art cards and pegs and trains around the tv room. (Since you don't get to be an expert thrower without lots of practice, we indulge him in his throwing as long as he doesn't aim at people.) Kara and Matt allowed us to keep Bentley for the night. He's downstairs snoozing away while we play on our computers. We'd best be getting to bed or we won't be fun companions for him tomorrow.


We are lucky, lucky, lucky grandparents to have the little ones live nearby us.