After squeezing in doctor and dentist appointments and finishing up year end meetings, the girls and I left Tuesday afternoon to head south. We realized that this first week in June is one of the only ones that both us and Kelly's family were available. Since I'm trying to soak up as much baby time as possible before Henry is no longer a baby, we quickly made plans for a 5-day visit.
Grandma's pool is currently out of commission due to a leak necessitating a new liner, so a chance to swim in the Keane pool was just icing on the cake. The girls swam everyday and had a blast with their first pool time of the summer season.
The first two days were brutally hot with thick North Carolina humidity. I went running both those mornings and came back drenched from head to toe, at 6:30 in the morning! Thursday we went to Pullen Park in Raleigh, which is a lovely little park with lots of kiddie play areas as well as an indoor carousel, a train around the park, and pedal boats on a small lake.
On Friday Kelly had to work, so we got to meet Carter's "manny" Aaron for the first time. He came to stay with Carter for the morning while we watched Henry. They went to the park for a bit and then got in the pool, which Carter is very hesitant of. He was skeptical at first but ended up having fun floating around in the red ladybug.
That evening Jon had a grand plan to camp out in the backyard with all the kids. Unfortunately the kids didn't think it was such a grand plan! So instead, we went out for ice cream.
Saturday we mostly hung around the house, and the girls had fun swimming with Jon in the pool. The other excitement was that Henry rolled over for the first time, and we all missed it! He did it a second time later on, witnessed by Kelly. We made our own homemade ice cream Saturday night using a new bowl and attachment they got for their KitchenAid mixer. It was delicious!
Sunday morning they left early for church. After packing our things, we hit the road to head home to Virginia. I can't think of a better way to spend the first week of summer than relaxing and unwinding while enjoying my sweet nephews (oh, and my sister and brother-in-law too).
Here are a few other photos from the trip:
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