Aunt Megan visits!

This past weekend, my sister Megan and her little guy Oscar came to visit us!!!!!! The trip was a much anticipated event at our house....in fact....the weather turned a bit nasty toward the end of the week and Andy was traveling. With the crazy weather, we were uncertain if he'd even make it home on Friday night. When I told the girls that there was a CHANCE that he'd not make it, their response was "But Aunt Megan WILL come right?!?!?!?" They adore her. By the way...Andy did make it home on time on Friday night and part of the entertainment that weekend was seeing all 4 Glynn children running from the supper table to the back door to greet Andy--Jayna spied the headlights in the driveway and they all bolted to welcome him in!

The above picture is of Megan, Oscar, and me before they left. Don't we look alike?!??!

The picture collage below is of Colin and Oscar in their matching pj's. The girls hovered over Megan and Oscar on Friday night (that is a mild description of their behavior!) and when Megan pulled out Oscar's jammies, the girls went nuts realizing that Colin had the same pair! Of course, it was a photo shoot meant to happen.

However, if you try to do a photo shoot at bedtime, you're usually guaranteed of no success. The photos we got were funny....you can see Colin checking Oscar out, pushing Oscar away and then smiling at him....yet still poking Oscar's leg! :) Cousin love!
Much more fun was to be had that night--the photo below captured the closeness of the girls and Megan--Ava just climbed up on a stool next to Megan and started playing a writing game and it was AUNT MEGAN who the girls requested to read their book before bed....all cozy on the "love couch" as Ava calls the loveseat! The lower right photo below is of Oscar and Colin watching Sesame Street together--they were zoned in on it, it was cute!

We had a big project on the agenda for the weekend--to create some fun bulletin boards for a room that we call "The Gallery"...it is where our computer is, where the girls' art table is....etc. I was in charge of getting the supplies: 4 bulletin boards, 4 yards of different fabric and coordinating ribbon, paint, and a glue gun. Then, Megan took it from there. The photo below is a collage of the craft fun: Ava playing "peek" when we made our dining room table bigger and the girls painting their bulletin board frames. Megan can even craft while holding a 1 yr old! That's pretty amazing!

While the frames dried, we switched gears: Megan and I took Ellie and Jayna roller skating while Andy watched the sleeping babes and Ava. Oh, did we ever have fun! It was Jayna's 1st time roller skating and we created a new "Aunt Megan tradition"...roller skating!

When we got home, they kicked it into high gear to finish our craft--below you can see my future ironer Ellie working on Colin's and her boards...
and then Jayna and Ava working on theirs. Let it be known.....Megan is one of the most patient crafters with kids. I personally think she should hire herself out for kids' birthday parties if her design career ever ends.

And the finished project:
(Yes, Ellie's eyes are red--she had been crying, partly over the end of the fun weekend....) As you can see, all the children are pretty excited about their new display boards and they are already semi-full of "art"....they only stopped putting things up because we have almost run out of push pins! The cream walls of "The Gallery" are so colorful now--it is just a really fun room!

And...as fun as the arrival is, there must be an end to all weekend visits...All of a sudden, Oscar just walked up to Ava and started hugging her. Well, you know that started a game (because none of the Glynn girls would go without a hug!)....and even Colin got into it. However, at first, he just walked up to Oscar and made a humming sound (perhaps a hug without touching?!) and then with Jayna's assistance, they finally hugged!
What a fun weekend.....we can now start thinking of what other crafts we need to get done or what rooms we might need painted for Aunt Megan's next visit! Either that or we'll have to start researching the roller rinks in Minnesota for OUR visit to them!