Our friends Ben, Rebecca, and their daughter, Miranda visited Houston this weekend. While Ben spent Friday getting some legal edumacation, Rebecca and Miranda hung out with us. After walking to Walgreens to buy some swim diapers, everything came together for our girls to enjoy their very first Splash Day!
Thanks Gram Nancy for the one-ring pool, Susan Hawes for all of the bath toys, and Rebecca and Miranda for the excellent company! Thanks also to Emily Braswell for some cute baby girl swimsuits, although we decided to start out au naturel, and to Claudia, our nanny, for keeping the girls above water when tired Mama Bob got distracted by conversation.
Bill cleverly inflating the pool using the electric pump from the air mattress
Sam and Cate using the bath rings as teethers
Miranda splashing in the sprinkler
Now it feels like summer! (And on a tangential note, this may be my favorite use to date of the wood deck behind our house that our friends came together to fund and build for our wedding in 2001. You all rock! When we eventually move to a newer house, whether in Houston or elsewhere, the deck and the love it represents is one of the things I will be sad to leave behind.)
Also, here are cute indoor pics of Rebecca and Ben with the girls:
Rebecca with Miranda, Cate, and Sam
Ben holding Sam and Bill holding Cate
Miranda improvised and used my watercolor (non-washable) markers to make blue hand prints
We sure enjoyed seeing you all. Please come back soon!