Dusty's visit

Dusty just came to town from last wednesday night through sunday night.  The kids really enjoy playing with him, and I really enjoy having basically a nanny while he's here.  It's great.  He comes with me to my girlfriends houses and plays with all the kids while we chat and drink coffee.  My friend Amy's four year old daughter Miranda fell in love with Dusty this visit.  She was asking if maybe he could just move to her town so that he could come over and babysit her.  She also suggested that she could vacation to his house in NYC.  It was hysterical.  At home the kids got to see some of what he is now doing at work in NYC.  He plays music for rich kids at this place called KidVille.  We had a busy-as-usual weekend while he was here.  Friday night Dusty bought us pizza and we watched the second Star Wars movie.  Mia LOVED it!  She said the best parts were the kissing and the part when Yoda fights and does all the flips.   She also watched it again on saturday morning and I think watched part of it on Sunday as well.  Saturday morning the soccer game was cancelled due to what was supposed to be bad weather, but it ended up being gorgeous.  We had a lot of fun at the YMCA's healthy kids day.  We made fruit kebobs and fruit smoothies and Mia got her face painted and participated in obstacle courses and played some basketball.  She was excited to win some playdoh when she made a basket.  Afterward we had a playdate with her best friend from class and Naomi and then went to her last ice skating lesson.  We got most of it on video, I'll see about Shelby posting it on here when he gets a chance.  Sunday after church we went to the Science Museum.  The Science Museum is one thing we almost always do when Dusty is in town.  First he and Mia went to see a special Star Wars themed planetarium show while Shelby and I played with Lennon in the infant room.  He loved this exhibit that MIT set up where you push on different shapes that either make lights or motion.  He had tons of fun walking back and forth watching all the shapes move and light up.  Mia and Dusty enjoyed the show and learned some of the similarities between the Star Wars planets and the real ones in our galaxy.  It is so much fun now watching Lennon study things and try to figure them out.  We had a great time with Dusty and are excited that he gets to come back to meet with the Dean of Admission at Harvard in just a few weeks.  Another great part about Dusty's visit was that Shelby relaxed and just hung out with us all weekend instead of doing schoolwork and stuff.  He ended up getting really stressed out in the end, but it was nice to get to see him so much for a few days in a row.  This next weekend we are so excited because Granmommy is coming on Friday night!  Mia already has big plans for her visit.  Plans that involve lots and lots of sugar!  Yikes!    

The picture of Lennon with the crazy hair is right after he woke up from a nap.