Cousin Violet and Lilli have been visiting this week.  It has been a little challenging for Stephen to accept someone taking his toys, but good for him.  I’ve been learning new ways to teach him to share, constantly.  I’ve been going back to the mommy mentor  and pretty much been realizing today that what he is saying to Violet is what I say to him! Oh how we have our words come back to us.  Violet is one cute 11 month old baby on the verge of toddler-ism.  She has been very accepting of the dogs and of Stephen.  Yesterday, we went over to my cousin Patti’s house to take advantage of their pool and see them.  They were in the middle of having a neighborhood/friend/family last minute get together and we crashed, but it was a lot of fun, and no tears!  We even stayed for pizza and dancing by the older kids.  Vivian, Patti’s daughter, loves to play dress up, and at one point Stephen came out wearing cat ears.  Here’s Vivian, Stephen, and Bella dancing together.  Too bad my microphone was covered up (or was it a blessing?), because you could have heard Bella saying, “I don’t like his dancing”, and Scott saying, “well, I think his dancing is unique” :) lol.   I did get to put in a pretty good soundtrack of my own though :)  

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