they came, they swam, they stayed over

Our very good friends (once from town, now from Michigan) were here for their annual visit with their family and we got our day too. We spent all day yesterday together, going to the beach, watching J & P play in an away baseball game, having sushi and italian, and the kids all slept stayed over.

This year’s transition period (the boys see eachother once a year and there’s always that period of awkwardness when they first get together) was the shortest we’ve ever seen. Actually, it wasn’t there at all. Jack and Connor have been exchanging letters recently and I think that’s probably helped. They were all so excited to see eachother and got right into playing. Even Timmy and Katie jumped right in- it was like they saw eachother last week, not last summer.

My gorgeous goddaughter! Love her. I even got to comb her hair (she said I did a good job) and got unsolicited hugs.

The Z kids all spent the night here. And honestly, I couldn’t believe they stayed up as late as they did. After my boys had been up late 2x during the week, they spent the day in the ocean and the pool and played baseball or ran around in the park, I thought they would crash and hard. Nope. The little ones (Katie slept in Timmy’s room- that was Timmy’s first sleepover) stayed up until 11:30pm and the big kids were up until 12. It probably would’ve been later if I hadn’t gone up there and told them it was enough. Man, that was a lot of giggling.

And I was informed that they were all up between 6:30 and 7am this morning. Can you say bedtime by 8 tonight??

We had a great visit and I’m happy to report that we will be seeing the Z family again in 3 weeks, but this time on their turf in Michigan.