The one with all the pictures

After a few days in Boerne the Mellor's showed up, and the girls had so much fun with their cousins. They spent pretty much all day everyday playing outside. Maire and Aine doted on both my girls, I think T drove them a little crazy with all her attentions.

I love these pictures of Nora.

Declan was such a cute little helper, too, he was following Nora around the yard, helping her up when she fell and helping her keep up with the bigger kids.

Teresa and Ciaran are 11 days apart, and they fought like cats and dogs the whole time we were there. It was pretty hilarious. They both kept trying to egg each other on, and annoy the other. In this picture T is trying to keep Ciaran from getting on the trampoline. She'd done this once before, and when I stuck my head out the door to make her let him on she just flung herself down and started sobbing about it. Don't feel too bad for him though, he gave as good as he got.

We also got in some park time:

Teresa went fishing in the cat's water bowl:

On St. Patrick's Day we started out with a nice long walk behind Granny and Grandad's house.

But first there was a huge gun battle:

Teresa loved playing with the boys and their guns. She would alternate between calling them guns and 'shoots', and when she would run around with them she would say "shoot, shoot", which would bother Ciaran and he would try to correct her "no, you say pew, pew", etc.

We tried to force some cousin love between Ciaran and Teresa, and it didn't start out too well...

But they got it figured out:

A typical interaction between the two looked more like this:

He was sweet as pie to Nora though.

Teresa was so funny on the walk, the day before Granny had helped her feel how fast her heart was beating when she needed to sit down and rest, and was explaining about all that stuff. So on our next walk T decided she needed a break, and kept saying "I just need to rest because my heart is broken". So the girls and I took a little break.

T showing me her broken heart:

Later that day we went to a little family fair in town. They had lots of fun and free stuff for the kids, including some 'exotic' animals to look at. T was busy looking at a porcupine and totally didn't notice the llama coming up behind her.

She took off running so fast when she realized what was going on. The llama was un-phased.