Family time

It has been a super week for family.  Monday, Beckie showed Steve and me one of her favorite antique malls in the area.  We spent a couple of hours wandering around all the booths.  Beckie bought a pyrex bread pan and a ceramic colander and we bought a couple of bundles of Golden Books.  We found a couple of aprons with really funny sayings but we didn't buy them...

Tuesday was Larkin pre-school

And that evening, Kirsti, Ryan and Alice arrived from Utah for a visit!  We went to the zoo on Wednesday morning and Beckie was able to join us.  Thursday morning, we took a walk around the neighborhood (Alice looks like she has a Harry Potter wand in the photo in front of the inflatable jack-o-lantern) and then we went to Emily's in the afternoon for a socially distanced dinner in the back yard.  It was fun to see Alice interract with Larkin with the help of bottles of bubbles.

We drove west to spend Friday and Saturday in Columbia.  We stayed with Steven and Tamara and we saw Melanie and Elise on Friday.  Melanie gave Alice a little tiara and a string of pearls which she wore most of the day on Saturday....until she changed into her black cat costume for the pandemic- appropriate Trunk or Treat we had in the meetinghouse parking lot Saturday afternoon back in St. Louis.

We took a quick trip up to the Amish stores Saturday morning with to stock up on gluten free supplies, etc. and Alice was told she could have a treat.  She chose a bag of candy corn and enjoyed eating almost a third of the bag on the way home!  

It has been so great to get to know Alice.  She is such an articulate and smart three-year old.  And, we get to have her and her parents through this coming Thursday so look for more photos in next week's blog.....