While Mommy and Daddy are away....

.....Allie and Will will play!

Last weekend David and I managed to attach a mini-date weekend onto a business trip that he had in Chicago....we love that city! He had a meeting there this past Monday, so we flew up last Saturday morning and spent Saturday and Sunday playing in the city. We had a wonderful time doing touristy stuff like the Architectural River and Lake Boat Tour, The Art Institute of Chicago, a fantastic dinner (and impromptu lunch) at Charlie Trotter's (www.charlietrotters.com), and a surprisingly fun Segway tour of the city.







Enough about us though...while we were away, Allie and Will got to play! Allie spent the weekend with some of her favorite babysitters and Grandma and PawPaw, while Will spent the weekend at Granny's house. Both seemed to have a great time!

Allie got to partake in the Virginia-Highland's Summerfest when Ms. Saundra took her for a walk to the park and happened upon the face painting! Ms. Saundra ended up bringing home a tiger! Allie kept ROARRRRing and wanting to go to the mirror to see her tiger face.




When it was time for Allie's nap, Ms. Saundra decided to just leave the tiger face paint on since it was all washable. There was a babysitter switch during nap time, and Ms. Caitlin got Allie up from her nap to find this post-nap tiger face!




She loved it so much that when I got back home from Chicago, I went out and bought some face paint and we have painted her face every day since. We've recreated the tiger a couple of times, and experimented with 2 or 3 different butterfly faces. She just loves it!



Will got to partake in some experimenting of his own! While at Granny's house, Will spent one evening learning all about his new love of guacamole and refried beans! Seems that he loves guacamole as much as his big sister, and I've now seen him eat a whole side of refried beans all by himself!


The date weekend in Chicago was fantastic, but boy, I'm always SO ready to come home and hug these babies!

(Oh, and let me just say how happy I am that all of our babysitters and Granny have phones that can take all these great pictures for me and text them to me when we are away so I can see how the babies are doing! Keeps my mind at ease.....somewhat.)

Nikki