Labor Day Weekend in St. Louis

My mom, brother & nephews joined us in the STL for Labor Day weekend. Although it was a whirlwind, we had a terrific time together. We spent an afternoon at the City Museum on Saturday, along with half of metro St. Louis. If you've never been there, GO! What an amazing & total indescribable place. Here we are at the entrance, ready to tackle every square foot of the attraction. (L to R: Leila, Mona, Luke, Russell, Liliana, Wade, Clayton. Mom was behind the camera.)

The kids enjoyed climbing all of the crazy structures, creating masterpieces, watching the sealife and sliding down the 10-story slide (no, that's not a typo). Here they are in the craft section, showing off their painting skills. The City Museum was so exhausting that everyone went to bed early--including yours truly. I broke my adult record and zonked out at 7:45pm.

After church on Sunday, the kiddos had plenty of playtime at our house. Liliana, Luke and Clayton blew bubbles, drove motorized vehicles and played on the playground while Leila slept. When Leila was awake, the boys were enamored with their baby cousin. They studied her every move and tried to be near her as much as possible. In fact, I frequently had to remind them to give her room to breathe!

Liliana and Leila are the only girls on my side of the family, and there's only one other on Wade's side...so we're happy to have added a girly girl to the family.


Below: four little cousins hang out in one chair. Luke and Liliana wore matching jammies. Darling!