family visit

A few weeks ago, Dan's sister Christy and her family came for a visit from Ireland. They were here for two weeks, and so we got to spend a lot of time with them. Hannah loves her Irish cousins and the feeling is definitely mutual. They spent lots of time playing and singing with her. Leah, who's 8, spent a LOT of time playing with Hannah and even taught her "Ring around the rosie" and now it's her favorite game. She gets really confused and frustrated with other little kids when they don't know it or aren't as interested in playing it as she is. She can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to walk around in circles 50 million times. She definitely misses Leah a lot. She misses the older girls too, and asks for them every day now. She doesn't quite get the concept that they live thousands of miles away. She still expects them to be at Grandma's house all the time. My oldest niece, Stacey, is extremely talented. She has a beautiful singing voice and is very good at the guitar. One night we were able to get her to serenade us for a while. Hannah wasn't sure what to make of the guitar at first, but eventually we were able to get her to strum it. It was funny watching her watch Stacey, though. As you'll see in the video, she was pretty mesmerized and wanted to figure out how she was playing the guitar, but then she'd get scared and back away.

Swinging like a big girl with Leah

Getting pestered by Becky