A Visit from Kali and Grandma!!

I was too lazy this post to put all the pictures in the right order... so they are a little random. Sorry.

This morning Madeline posed for me the first time. She was saying, "CHEESE!" and smiling.

Like the title of the post suggests, my mom and little sister came to visit us this weekend. We thought it would be a fun relaxing weekend, but they mostly helped me pack and get ready to move to Washington for the Summer. My mom is the ultimate super woman and it was so nice to have Kali to keep Madeline company!

We did squeeze in a few fun things. Here is the cockroach race we attended at the Purdue Bug Bowl. The man in charge of racing is actually Madeline's nursery teacher... she's pretty lucky don't you think?

Everybody was really surprised that I was so willing to hold the tarantula. They creep me out a whole lot less than milipedes and cockroaches. Kali was totally creeped out. She spazzed out when I put the plastic tarantula on her that they had by the exhibit... woot! :)

Here is Grandma teaching Madeline about baby pigs, sheep, chicks, cows, etc.

Kali thought it would be a real great idea to get Madeline's picture with the bee, but as you can see from her face Madeline wasn't very excited. She did enthusiastically say goodbye!

Madeline's first experience with cotton candy. (She just wanted to hold it, never ate any).

Here we are at the cricket spitting finals. People put live crickets in their mouth and spit them as far as they can... only in Indiana, right? :)

Mom and Kali were really tempted to try it...

Here's what Kali did most of the bug bowl.

This is my favorite picture of the whole post. My mom is the cutest lady ever!!! We went to the mall and outside of it there were three trees that had TONS and TONS and TONS of birds in them. It was SO loud! Josh took Madeline over and discovered that they would just jump up to the top and stop chirping, like you thought they had disapeared. When he came back, mom thought it was so cool that she wanted to try it. She ran over jumping and chirping and the birds got real quiet, real fast. You kinda had to be there, but just know she is SO cute!!

We went to feed the ducks one night too. Madeline was really excited to feed them so she ran up to them with bread and they started hissing at her (there weren't really any ducks, just mean geese), needless to say we were all a lot more careful after that.

Here is mom taking care of the underdog, she was certain this goose had a limp and was trying to nurse him back to health with some extra bread. :) Isn't she a good lady?

Kali loved feeding the ducks too.

Another cute picture.

Here are Kali and Grandma showing Madeline the movies they brought.

Madeline LOVED having them here!!!

Here is Madeline posing in a beautiful new outfit.

Here is Josh teaching Madeline about the Boston Tea Party- in action...!