Cousins Sleepover

How excited were we that Genevieve was coming for a sleepover?!?!? Eeeeeek!

Our niece, Matt's sister's baby, is so cute. That isn't even the word. Darling. Precious. Think of the most saccharine adjective and apply it here. Her little voice. Her walk that is still a little unbalanced, and a half run. The names she uses for things because she can't yet fully enunciate. Her affection for naps and bedtime! Her parents think we did them a favor, but I am telling y'all, they did us a favor! The girls had fun playing with their little cousin. Savvy got to be a big sister, Cass got to practice empathy with someone not Savvy :-)

Maybe it was the novelty of having her over, but there were no tantrums. For anyone! We played outside, we played with Shorty, we went to a children's festival and did arts and crafts, we read books, we watched movies, we ate and ate and ate.

We are looking forward to the next time we can do a favor for Emily and Chris ;-)

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