Visiting Baby Cormac

We had a long weekend in February and decided to use it to go to LR to see our family there -- the biggest perk being that we got to see Cormac! Madeleine was sick when he was born and only got to peek at him from a distance, so she'd been dying to get back there so she could hold him.

 

Harrison decided that he liked him as well. :) He and Grandad have always been "buddies" and this trip Harrison decided that Cormac could now be a buddy as well -- but, in his words "He has a lot to learn about being a buddy." Love that! 

 Madeleine spent much of the weekend like this -- holding Cormac. She is like a mini baby whisperer. Seriously. She would take him, even if he was crying, and just shush and cuddle him and in moments he would calm down. I think he liked snoozing on his big cousin. :)

 The rest of the weekend was spent with the kids playing. Harrison built things for his starwars guys. My parents have all of our old legos and that's about all the kids needed for the weekend to keep them happy. They built and built all weekend long!

Saturday afternoon, Sharon & I got out and shopped a little bit and then Mimi & Grandad watched the kids so we could go out to dinner with Sharon & Stewart -- such a treat!

 We sadly didn't make church on Sunday morning. Sharon & Cormac stayed the night with us since Stewart was feeling bad & Charlotte woke up in the middle of the night with a fever. It was just a rough night all around. So we all stayed home and helped Mimi with lunch and took care of Cormac so Sharon could sleep. How I remember those days & endless nights! I have to admit I was thankful to know that I'd be home and getting a full night of sleep that night. ;)

Charlotte got some Motrin and started feeling better. Madeleine and Charlotte had a tea party while we fixed lunch on Sunday.

 We had to come home on Sunday night since Matt had to work on Monday, even though the kids were off. It was possibly the best trip home we've ever had. We got dinner on the way home and then the kids all fell asleep around 30 minutes from home and we just put them in their beds and they all stayed asleep -- a miracle! We got Charlotte up to give her some more meds for her fever, but she went right back to sleep. We were home and unpacked with all kids asleep by 8:30. Matt and I were looking around like, what are we going to do with this time??  Ha!