Visit from the Aunties and Uncle Jeff

After a few weeks hiatus, we're back! We've been traveling a lot and having lots of visits from friends and family. Auntie Meredith and Michelle visited last month with Uncle Jeff. The visit started with a few unexpected gifts (and a month before Satchel's first birthday!).

Squirty fish for the bathtub! Satchel loves these things.

Checking out the gifts together - a couple of books from Aunt Meredith and Aunt Michelle. Appropriate to their areas of interest, Michelle got Satchel a book about a spider and a fly and Meredith got Satchel a book about an apostrophe.

Waiting to be seated at a restaurant downtown after perusing the book fair.

Hamming it up with Auntie Michelle.

Hanging out with Uncle Jeff - always a favorite.

We found this strange eyeball postcard thing advertising a new sculpture of a giant eyeball that is going to be created in Chicago.

And what else do you really do with an eyeball postcard but play peekaboo with it?

A visit to Minneapolis

Several weeks ago we paid a visit to Andy and Sarah and Zebulon in St Peter, just outside Minneapolis. We also saw our college friends, Marie and Bill, but sadly did not take any photos of our time with them.

We played at the Tree-mendous Playground

We went for a pretty impressive hike at a local park considering that we were pushing strollers. Here we are fording a creek.

Satchel and Zebulon doing some drumming together.