Cousins!

Hi! Here's our little guy pretending to help Daddy rake the leaves. Mostly he just wanted to hand them all to me or eat them but whatever. This week was really fun for our little guy. We had Walt/Nan/Sam/Sara in town again for most of the week. They stayed up in Baltimore for a couple days for Nan's conference and R and I drove up and went to the aquarium with them. Rinat had a lot of fun watching the big fish and playing with his cousins. Then they came and stayed with us for a few days and we went to the Natural History and the Air & Space Museums down on the Mall. But Rinat's faorite part of course was just hanging out with family. Sam (he's 4) just loves Rinat and spent a lot of time smushing Rinat's cheeks and kissing him. And Rinat spent a lot of time just staring at Sam. I think they are going to be good friends when they get older. And Sara (she's 1) taught Rinat how to point and he now says 'more' her way sometimes instead of his clapping way. And speaking of his sign language, he is doing more and more signs. He now has 'milk' and 'all done' down pat and he'll do them without me even saying the word. We all lay in bed for a while in the morning, and when he's had enough, he just lets us know by signing that it's time for milk. It's so great. And we have nicknamed our guy the Diaper Houdini because he somehow has figured out how to take one side of his diaper off during the night through his pajamas and he pees all over his clothes and crib. His still slept through the night though so it must not bother him to be soaking wet. That makes it three nights in a row for him and two happy parents. And this happy parent will talk to you later. Have a great week! -m