A visit from Megan, Derek, and Allie

We had visitors from the cities over the weekend. My classmate from med school, Megan Gladen, her husband, Derek, and (most importantly) their two-year-old, Allie came for a visit! Julia was just elated to have somebody to play with for the whole weekend!!!

Julia and Allie are sharing a cookie. Julia is smiling for the camera, Allie can't because her mouth is too full of cookie....

Yes, it rained all weekend, but that didn't stop us! We gave the girls umbrellas and set out for a walk in the rain.

Morton Salt commercial, anyone?

Wet feet

The girls found a wet monarch butterfly in the UMD parking lot and are examining it very carefully. And NO, they did not decapitate it or rip the wings off!!!! It actually stayed whole, and when they were done looking at it, Julia gently put it in the grass. THIS is the difference between little girls and little boys.... A butterfly would never survive two two-year-old little boys....

As if there wasn't enough fun to be had already, Julia found a "swimming pool," which is actually a run-off basin for the huge parking lot. She begged to "go swimming, mama???" Natually, since her papa was nowhere to be found, I allowed her to go in, and took pictures. We got a good laugh.

Soon, the jeans were saturated and slowing her down...so off they went. At least I made her stay in the diaper.
No commando today.

Soon enough, Allie was in the water, too. Megan made the comment that we were two physicians standing in a cold, wet parking lot, allowing our two-year-olds to play in a big pool of run-off.
....a picture of health!

Of course, a bath was in order. A vertical bath.
...I have no idea why this picture did this. I have a love-hate relationship with this computer, and I have to pick my battles. The rest of the pics came out right, so I will just pretend that everything looks just fine. :)