Meeting Claire

Mark, Deirdre, Kira, and Claire braved a flight to San Diego to meet Seth. Glad they could make it so we could get Claire and Seth together before they're both 6 months old! We didn't do much other than go to the park and the pool, and I didn't get pictures there so these are mostly around the house. We managed to fit all 8 of us in our apartment for a few days. Thanks to the Andersons for dealing with the coziness and clutter!

Mark bravely took both toddlers to Costco solo. They got to ride in the cart "together" one of Ada's favorite words.

Rachel's delicious finger and Claire. 

Claire and Seth hanging out. Claire is 7 weeks older than Seth. It was great to see how interactive she is, so we have that to look forward to in a few weeks! 

Ty, brave like Mark, gave both toddlers a shoulder ride solo.

"The baby is touching me!"

Girls

All four of them. Not too bad of a picture with four kids that age!

Another of Claire and Seth

They decided to lick each other after a few minutes. 

Snuggles with Daddy

 The next few are Kira and Ada making Kira's first 3rd birthday cake. Deirdre found a recipe that toddlers are supposed to be able to do themselves, by adding a container of yogurt and then measuring the flour, sugar, etc with the yogurt cups. They had trouble getting the yogurt out of the cups, after that it went great. 

putting in the yogurt

Trying to help while still letting them do it

Mixing the cake

And eating the cake! I guess we didn't get a picture with the candle and Kira. Sorry. Also, the cake was really good, except I made it dry out by turning off the oven but then forgetting to pull it out before we left for the park. 

Matching hair dos and "cheese" faces. Cute girls, they miss each other!