When Will Uncle David be Here?

About a week and a half ago, Jack's mom called to let us know Jack's brother David and his family would be coming out from Chicago to visit. We would be doing a family picnic Monday, June 15th. The girls were very excited to see Uncle David, Aunt Monica and Hunter. They would ask me every day how long it would be until the picnic. The day finally arrived, and we all had a nice time visiting with the family.

For the kids, probably the most fun of the evening was breaking out the 8-pack of bubbles (although that might have been rivaled with playing in the old washing machine box). Most of the pictures I got were of the bubble adventures. David and Monica weren't sure if Hunter had ever seen bubbles before. He sure got a kick out of them. He was a ball of energy trying to get those bubbles.

I tried to get a picture of Joseph and Hunter together, and this was the closest I got. What can you expect with two 2-year-olds? Oh, and Hunter is just 2 1/2 months older than Joseph.

Joseph definitely has seen bubbles before. He likes to be able to blow the bubbles himself. He convinced Aunt Julie to hold the bottle of bubbles for him while he dipped the wand and blew bubbles. She had lots of patience... Joseph would bring the wand all the way to his lips, blow bubbles, lick his lips, dip the wand in the bottle and repeat about 100 times. After a while he had bubbles all down his chin and would blow bubbles from his mouth when he breathed, no wand required.

Since we only see David and Monica about once a year, there were family pictures to take. The main goal was to recreate this photo from June of 2007, when the three boys were just born.

Here is the most successful of the pictures taken. Those 2-year-olds are sure squirmy, and the kids are all two years bigger, so fitting in that chair wasn't easy!