Last weekend Nana was here for a visit - yeah! We had so much fun running around during the day and relaxing at night (I highly recommend the movie we watched on Friday - PS I Love You! What a tear jerker!) It was so nice to have an extra set of super helpful hands! I mean...dishes got cleaned without me setting foot in the kitchen, pancakes were made just because I said "maybe we should make pancakes" (see picture!) and the laundry fairy made a visit while I went to a baby shower on Sunday. AMAZING! What I don't understand is the efficiency! My mom can do like 12 things at a time without looking like she is running around all stressed...and everything is done well! Is this a skill that I will acquire someday? Will I learn how to accomplish such amazing feats in time to use them with my kids or is this a Grammy thing?! No....no.....I remember this same efficiency from my childhood! Maybe it's just MY mom (I've seen my grandmother do the same thing - hopefully it's genetic)!!!
Sunday night, after Nana had gone to the airport, I told Brian "What we really need around here is a mom!"


Sadly, I didn't take many pictures. This is Nana and Logan right before she left to go home! Logan was being such a ham!
I had to say something funny to make him do a normal smile.
Yesterday, I went into the changing closet to get Aiden ready and noticed the chalk board. Ah....a little memento from Nana! I am assuming that Aiden trapped her in there at some point and demanded that she draw fish for him (this is his new favorite drawing request....lots of fish plus stingrays...which are surprisingly hard to draw!)

Logan saw me with the camera and said "take my picture too". This is a huge closet under our staircase that serves as a changing / organization area for now (until everyone is out of diapers I guess!)

I didn't want to leave Brady out of the picture taking. Here he is drinking his afternoon bottle on the living room floor! This is the kind of picture I'll look at in another year when I'm trying to do an album for Bray and think "why in the world did I take this picture?!" Thanks to the blog....I'll know!