Nana and Papa's Visit

We recently had Nana and Papa come visit all the way from Redding, CA!  I had a vacation without leaving my own house: I got to go to Wal-Mart all by myself, took a few naps and read a lot!  Here are a few highlights of their time with their four grandchildren and two grandkitties!

Mary and Maggie coloring a car picture that Nana received as a gift from one of her students.

Nana made the girls cinnamon toast.  What a special treat!

Nana and Papa took Mary and Maggie on a cable car ride.  They left from City Park and rode down to the French Quarter and then returned home.  Poor Mary got some grease on her face from the cable car!

Maggie liked the cable car ride!

Nana and Papa brought some books for Matthew and Jonathan from their recent travels to the British Isles.  Mary is reading Paddington to Matthew.

Nana and Papa are reading to Matthew and Jonathan.  And don't miss the cute matching outfits.  Guess who brought those?

Nana and Papa went to watch Mary's swimming lessons.

This is Mary in the pretty new dress from Nana and Papa.  She made herself very dizzy spinning in this dress!

Nana and Papa also brought each of the girls pretty plaid hairbands from Scotland.  Here, they are actually timing Mary running laps inside the house.  And, yes, she is wearing her brand new dress!!!

This is Maggie in her pretty new dress from Nana and Papa.  Nana brought her new Nook along and let the girls play some games on it.  The girls loved it.

Nana tried out some fancy braids on Mary's hair.  Very pretty!

Nana taught Mary how to braid yarn.  They made thin braids and thick braids.  Mary is setting up a store.  Thin braids are 25 cents and thick braids are 26 cents.  If you'd like to place an order, let me know!

Here's Papa with Jonathan in his new shirt!

And here's Nana carrying Matthew is his new shirt!

Here's a picture of Maggie enjoying the extra hands to push her on the glider!

This is a picture of Mary eating chocolate pudding cake.  Yes, I really do believe that chocolate should be a part of every celebration!

Maggie had so much fun that she fell asleep standing up!!!!