Date Night

Date night!

We had a great night with Cory, Kristin, and Ava. We met them in Effingham to eat at Lonestar - it was packed! We even met early, to work around the kids' eating schedules, and there was only one parking spot when we arrived.

Shonn and I had a few minutes to talk before the Kleisses arrived, and we were seated pretty quickly after that.  Everyone's meals were good, and then we went to Cory & Kristin's to hang out and let the kids play.  (We joked that we were going to make the guys watch Miss America, but the Broncos/Somebodies were on, so it had to remain a joke.)

Beckett and Shonn at the bar, watching football while we waited.  Cuties!

Beckett was really into the activity table.

Ava is such a cutie, and she has really cool toys, including this activity table:

 One of my friends from work, Jenny, told me to get Beckett an activity table, and we never did.  I guess we should have, because he loved it!

Ava also has a ball princess castle thing, which is like a mini, germ-free version of the McDonald's/Hardees playland things.  It was so cute!  Ava is crawling all over the place and she really isn't afraid of anything! She tipped the ball castle over while she was inside and just laughed. 

More activity table action.

Ava has the same Dino walking toy Beckett got from Grammy. She loves it and can really move!

Someone's a little tired...

...but has just enough energy for a little more investigating of that activity table.

As expected, Beckett put the moves on Ava again. He loves babies' faces! Especially girl babies!  We were talking on the way home and we have no idea how he learned this, but he also "kisses" us sometimes at night, and when we read books with pictures of real babies in them, he kisses the book, too.  Ava didn't seem to mind!

It doesn't seem too long ago that we left them with Katelynn and Ashley while we watched Footloose at the Little Theater, but then I watch this video and I can't believe how much they have grown!