Cousins Camp

I have this idea of doing Cousins Camp some day -- get all the cousins together for a week and do awesome stuff every day.  Summer and Matt just moved to Minneapolis, but their kitchen was way behind schedule and between the dust, noise, and paint fumes it wasn't going to work for them to stay in their house.  So, Cousins Camp (minus Felix) came to Rochester for two weeks.

Much of our unofficial Cousins Camp was entrenched in getting a 1, 2, and 3 year old to share with each other.  Tate was also throwing some spectacular tantrums, showing off for his Maren and Christian, I think, but we did have some fun moments, too.  Summer was awesome to let me get to the gym a few days and to make us some delicious dinners.  Why aren't we neighbors?  But we gotta be happy with a 90 minute drive, instead of a 3 hour plane ride.  Getting closer to our dream. :)

Lots of people love Nina, but I'm pretty sure that Maren is her #1 fan.  There was lots of reminding to not touch Nina's face (all the kids had colds), but I'm so glad that Nina has a cousin who loves her so much!

LOTS of time spent playing in the pool/sprinkler.  Thank heavens for those things.

Music time.  They play with gusto.

A trip to the little zoo.  Tate loves the goats, until they actually want to eat what he is offering them.

We're so glad to have cousins close to us!