My Cousins are Here! My Cousins are Here!

Well, it's true. Gabi's cousins are here!!! These are her only first cousins, Spencer and Griffin. They are so smart, so sweet, so much fun. We have had a ball. They arrived yesterday with Aunt Hilary and Uncle Steve in tow. I am so impressed with the kids. The boys are so sweet and patient with Gabi. They hold her hand, they help, the look out for her and they kiss her.

The kids were in the pool for most of the day today. Griffin learned how to swim with his water wings by himself. Before he needed to hold onto someone. Not anymore!!! Once he started doing that, he spent a lot of time in the spa swimming back and forth and back and forth. And then he would swim across once, kiss Gabi across the separating wall and swim back to the other side. He did this over and over. Adorable!!!

We also set up an obstacle course for the kids this morning. There is a circle upstairs because the bathrooms between two of the bedrooms is a jack-and-jill. They would run around from the playroom, bedroom, bathroom, other bedroom and back to the playroom. We set up the tunnel and Gabi's ladybug chair as obstacles. They had to go through the tunnel, jump over the chair, yell "hooray" and then through the rooms. They loved it. Occasionally, Gabi would sit in the chair so they couldn't jump over it. In that case, they either had to kiss her or give her a high five. They had the BEST time! We wore them out. And the exciting part is that I can tell already that Gabi is becoming more social with her peers. She is playing WITH them, not next to them or by herself. At this age, that's so common, but she is already playing cooperatively with them. She thinks her cousins are sooooo funny!

Unfortunately, Hurrican Gustav is headed right for us, so they are going to have to leave earlier than planned. We are disappointed, but certainly understand their predicament. We have to hunker down. GG is supposed to arrive on Monday to stay for the week. We're not sure she'll be able to get in, but we'll see.

The pics aren't in a logical order. But enjoy them anyway...