Last Week

Last week, my oldest friend came to visit us with the younger of her little girls. 

She and I have been friends since the first grade, when we were assigned to be locker mates.

Now we're doing this whole mama thing simulateneously, and I am so glad to have her continuing friendship.  She's a good mama, and she's almost two years farther into the journey than I, so I get to cheat off her paper.  :)

We had such a great time with our visitors!  Little Guy showed his bud around all his favorite stompin' grounds.

And Buddy Boy provided lots of interest for this little nurturing soul.

We hit up the museums.

We played on the Mall.

We called on the President.

{Really, that was just for the children's benefit.  They were dying to go.}

We spent hours at home, just talking...reminiscing, relating, relishing the the time together.  We shared sweet treats during every naptime.  We bathed babies and pushed strollers and changed diapers.  All the ordinary stuff, but somehow so much more fun when done together.  We hired a babysitter and went out for a girls' night of wine and cheese and Oscar Wilde at the theatre down the street.  We later learned that the babysitter had to have the Mister rescue her from the unending cryfest.  We strategized about how to get 3 adults and 3 babies to sleep in a 2-bedroom apartment.  And by the end of the visit, we had it down pat.

{this was not how we did it!}

We just generally had a grand ol' time.  And we're missing them something terrible this week!