May 1st-3rd The Rowlands Visit St. Louis

Our good friends the Rowlands visited us in St. Louis this weekend. Since we've been in St. Louis Willem hasn't played with too many kids, so it was exciting for him to have two playmates. He learned a lot that weekend from watching Jonah. Since that time Willem has been signing more and Jason and I have as well as we learned quite a few signs from the Rowlands. Jacob and Willem did the parallel play most of the time but all three boys played very well together. Hopefully they'll get to play together again soon!

On Saturday we went to the Zoo and the boys loved seeing the animals! We had a fun picnic lunch and the kids got a chance to crawl/walk around for a bit. One highlight from the trip was watching fellow guests at the zoo feeding the giraffes. We were so close to the giraffes, we could reach out and touch them.

The trampoline was a favorite with the boys!

One night we threw all 3 boys in for a bath. This was during Willem's phase where he didn't like to sit down in the bath , so Willem just hung out for a few minutes before getting out.

We went to the Arch on Sunday, the kids didn't pay too much attention to the Arch itself but they loved the big grassy area around it where we had a picnic. The kids all did great going up in the Arch, we were quite impressed!! What a fun weekend with great friends!!