papa and nana visit - day two

we didn't leave the apartment much during papa, nana, and uncle derek's visit.  unfortunately, matt and i had to work during their visit.  we did eat dinner out each night though because there weren't quite enough chairs in the apartment to accommodate everyone comfortably.  we even took them to chick-fil-a (madelyn's new favorite restaurant) for some dinner and playing. 

here are some pictures from our day at home:

mason checking out maggie resting under the christmas tree.  maggie loves to have a dog bed but lady always ate them so she doesn't have one (i think we are going to buy her one this week); instead she lays on any fabric she can find on the floor - clean laundry, towels, baby blankets, burp clothes, and, apparently, christmas tree skirts.



madelyn and nana playing at the block table.  the block table might be the best gift "santa" has given the kids yet!  it gets used everyday with rare fighting over the blocks.  best part for mommy?  no batteries and no noise!

  

madelyn requested to wear her new tu-tu skirt that i found in the day-after sale at the mall.  i was able to find a shirt from papa and nana to wear with it too.  i just liked these pictures so i posted them all.  i guess that her hands under her chin is one of her new 'cute' poses - not sure where she got it from though.



nana enjoying holding a sleeping maddux (who started to wake up when i was taking pictures).  i think that might be the main reason that they didn't want to leave the apartment - holding maddux.

 

this is mason 'posing' for the camera.  his posing boils down to standing perfectly still.  he is wearing his new shirt from papa and nana.  he looks like such a boy in this picture.



madelyn didn't want to put anything on her legs for dinner but it was too cold to go along with that choice (wind chill was in the teens) so i let her choose between new tights and new knee high socks.  she went with the knee high sock which actually went all the way up to her thigh!  i thought that she was pretty cute in her outfit but she didn't want to have her picture taken on her way out the door.  as i was uploading this for the post she asked why we couldn't see her face in this picture and i explained that she posed like that when she didn't want her picture taken; she thought that was pretty funny.

mason was pretty clingy to mommy during their visit.  we were all battling a little bit of a cold and i think mason had the worst of it.  i actually was questioning if he might have an ear infection because he was so whiny and clingy.  he did give papa, nana, and derek a little snuggle time too, but mainly it was a lot of "mama" every time i would leave the room.  love.