A Visit from the D'Auria's

Yesterday we got to see the D'Auria's for the first time since we left. Natalie was all excited to see her friend Rebekka and Joe and I were excited to hang out with MaryBeth and Steve. The kids all got along well and were so cute together. It is funny because Nicolas seems to take a liking to all of Natalie's Asian friends and we wonder what he is thinking. Every time he sees an Asian friend they speak English not Chinese. :) But he makes the best of it. MaryBeth and Steve brought balloons for all the kids and you would have thought they brought them the world. They played with those balloons more than they played with anything else. All three of them got dressed up and danced to music, but it was so funny to watch Natalie and Rebekka with their dress up. They would go into Natalie's room and shut the door and tell Nicolas that boys aren't allowed. They would do dress changes and come back out, dance a bit and go back in for another dress change. I really didn't notice until the end of the night, but they had makeup on. Too cute! Daddy isn't crazy about the makeup-thing, but they are just playing and only 4. :)

Since it was raining we decided to bring the picnic table inside for the kids to sit at and eat and it worked out really well. They ate well and got to have cake, after they decide what color balloon on the cake they each wanted. The cake was beautiful, as you can see from the pictures. Thanks, MaryBeth and Steve for all the goodies. We had a great time!!