FRISATSUN...Baam!

G'parents Ohio came to visit for the weekend. We're glad they were sufficiently recovered from the walking pneumonia to make the trip, as at the beginning of the month they were in doubt.

G'ma and I went consignment sale shopping. We had a great time--okay, well I had a great time. G'ma was just happy to find some good deals. Somehow we never manage to get good photos of them with the kids until they are ready to leave. Could be that we run out the door as soon as they show up?

Bet you can't guess whose head this is, below. It's not who you think.

This 3rd picture down of Josie is actually from a couple weekends ago. Unlike Eddie she still usually hams it up for the camera.

She positively loves these pink sunglasses. I've got to find her some with some darker lenses as I worry these won't do much but look cute on her.

In other news...J has pink eye! It's our first bout with the illness and I was caught offguard because silly me, I actually expected her eye(S) to be pink. Now they are pink, but on Sat. they were just full of newborn-blocked-tear-duct gunk.

We have to give her eyedrops, which much to our delight has been really easy--we'd prepped ourselves when the doctor described holding her head between our thighs, and pinning down her upper body with our legs crossed over her. I had visions of a WWF. She mostly just lays there with her eyes closed and then we blow on her face to get her to blink. Course this is day one...lets see what story we tell on day 7. So far, Eddie is in the clear.

J's diction is getting really clear. She is repeating everything we say...so far she's not been paying attention to my cursing.

Eddie is still enjoying preschool and all the birthday parties that go with it. He's enjoying being 'the helper', clearing all the dishes off the table after dinner, getting his own breakfast, and helping Josie with everything from her hairdo to getting down the stairs.

Then there is my personal favorite, said as he goes into the bathroom, "I want priv-acy". This is more to Josie to KEEP OUT.

J is starting to go down the stairs fowards all by herself. Freaks me out. We installed a low hanging handrail that goes underneath our main one and it works as well for her as it did for Ed. He calls her Joes-o, but then I call her J, Jo, JJ, all sorts of things.

I'm starting to worry about Eddie's name and what will happen to him as he moves through school. He hates all the nicknames people attach to his name--even in preschool--steady-Eddie, fast-Eddie, etc. We've got to help him figure out a good way to deal with this.