Family visiting!

We were all very excited to have Jon's Uncle Rick, Aunty Edna and Cousin C come to visit. Here is the LONDON family skyping with Grandpa in PERTH while sitting on our sofa in MANILA!

We hadn't seen them since M was one year old. It was lovely to introduce 'Grandma Heather's brother and family' to M as our now four year old, and J and L for the first time -- and vice versa!

Jon took them to the American Memorial gardens for some WWII history

Then home for a swim. Uncle Rick used a white towel after the pool. J must have particularly noticed because when we talked about the high points of the day at bedtime tonight, J said she really liked swimming with Uncle White Towel.

Time for a quick photo before departing for the aiport - a 19 hour visit that we thoroughly enjoyed!

A Thursday

 

It wasn't the best start to the day - the girls discovered with joy that their bedroom door wasn't locked and decided to pay us a visit at 5.45am before any of us were awake. So the baby didn't feed, and neither parent was particularly chipper about how the day started. But one look at these faces and its hard to stay (too) cranky for long :-)

M and J were playing 'hiding from the thunder' and decided under the piano was as good a place as any. There was no thunder. Sun was shining. But its fun to play :-)

Good morning mama! I know I didn't nurse and you ended up having to pump against your strong preference, but look at my adorable face!

Co Minh is a piano teacher but she does singing, theory, piano, percussion, and rhythm. M is loving her music lessons (and would LOOOOOVE to play the drums). They are J's music lessons too, but for some reason J took to 'making fish food' from playdough and then 'throwing it to the fish'. Mama was the fish.

 

Our Gorgeous J

WHAT a girl! Hilarious, delicious, nurturing, and clever. We love our J so much!

Our Beautiful M

So we just noticed that L has featured quite heavily of late :-) Here's our beautiful M. She is larger than life. SO many smiles and so much excitement for just about everything. We love this creative, kind, thoughtful, FUN girl!

Our lovely L

Such a precious little girl. Here she is in one of our favorite photos. Now, our tiny little newborn is rolling over, sitting up, and clapping her hands. And melting our hearts, which she has always done :-)

L clapping

L can roll