Cousins!

Well, this was going to be a post with Mia's four month stats, but we decided to skip that appointment... no big deal, right?

Last Friday I found out that my brother and his family were in Atlanta. Say, what?! It's only a four hour drive, why the heck didn't they tell me they were coming? Supposedly he thought he remembered from the last time they were out here (two years ago) that it was more like six hours away. Turns out they flew into Atlanta, but were going to do a sort of Southern tour and were heading out the next morning for Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama before heading back to Atlanta on Thursday. So we planned on meeting up there yesterday after we had Amelia and Copper's check ups. I guess Montgomery isn't as exciting as one might think, so they got into Atlanta Wednesday night and we decided our "family emergency" could push back Mia's appointment a few days. (And thankfully Peter's dad was willing to take Copper to his!).

We met them for lunch at an Atlanta institution, Mary Mac's Tea room. Unforunately I didn't see anyone all dressed in black, or even any silver buttons! It was just a cute little place with all the famous southern food: black-eyed peas, collard greens, chicken and dumplings, peach cobbler, etc. Then we went to ImagineIt: The Children's Museum of Atlanta. The kids had a lot of fun, but it was fairly unimpressive to me. The last time we went to a Children's museum Nate was a little too young to enjoy it, though it was much bigger, but he loved this place! I'm sure being with his cousin helped a lot.

This is the kind of sand they need at the beach - perfect for sand castles.

Clifford, Emily Elizabeth and Nate

Fishing in their super cute rain coats!

After the museum, we headed right across the street to Centennial Olympic Park, home of the 1996 Olympic Games. It has a couple of playgrounds, a water feature, a burger restaurant, and is just a nice place to hang out in the middle of downtown. From there we went to their hotel for a little breather before a very disappointing dinner and the drive home.

Lulu and Nate, sliding away

These kids were holding hands and giving hugs and kisses to each other all day! Then right when we left the restaurant Nate "called" Lindsay and told her she's his best friend. :) Too cute!

Madison and Amelia - Cruising in style!

Pooped

Mia and Maddie, just hanging around

Luckily Mia traveled like a champ. She got fussy a few times on the way there, but as soon as she got her binky back (thank God for Peter's long arms!) she was fine. We stopped one time for a quick bathroom-diaper-feeding-break, but otherwise she slept the whole way there and back. Nate didn't sleep on the way there, but crashed HARD on the way home and didn't even wake up when Peter carried him uupstairs, put him in pajamas and into bed.

We all can't wait to see them again in July for Mia's baptism and our trip to the beach with my sister, her daughter and my mom!

Check back in about a week for Amelia's four-and-a-half month stats. I imagine we will actually make the next appointment.