Go, go, go with Grandpa Mark and Grandma Betty

Grandpa Mark and Grandma Betty drove from Illinois to visit us this past week. It has been a treat having them here, especially for Mr. Caleb! Upon arrival, they had an early birthday present for Caleb to play with throughout the week. Caleb likes to go, go, go in his new car, and he has put many miles on it already. Though it may appear, we do not encourage drinking and driving -:).

At first they took it easy with him because he was getting over a stomach bug and it has been 100+ degrees outside, but he was ready to go, go, go by day two. Their first outing was a nice drive through the country to a town to the west called The Plains and a trip to the famous Manassas Battlefied.

The spotted a mom and baby deer pulling into our neighborhood on the way home.

The next morning Caleb was the first kid on the playground...probably around 6:30am -:). He had fun riding the panda? and going up and down the slides.

On the 4th of July we went to Leesburg to walk around, look at antique shops, and eat some ice cream. It was HOT that day, and we all enjoyed some lemonade with our lunch.

The next day the troops went to Fredericksburg, Culpepper, and Warrenton. They really did get around this trip! You may be wondering what the next pictures is...last week I showed Caleb how to say hello and put the phone by his ear...now EVERYTHING has turned into a phone -:). This is a shoe phone. We have also had cup phones, pizza phones, pea phones, leaf phones, mulch phones...pretty much anything is fair game!

Our Good Buddy found a caboose to play on.

Then our little monkey went for a climb in the tree. He loves heights and climbing. We are going to have to watch this little boy!

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On their last outing, they went to Sky Meadows State Park and the Arboretum. The pictures from their trip turned out great! I see where Nathan gets his eye for photography.

And here we have a leaf phone....hello?

Since the three musketeers explored together this week, we finally managed to get a picture of them together.

Thank you so much for the great visit! We have had a wonderful week with grandpa and grandma, and we are so thankful they came to spend the week with us. My parents are on their way, and will be with us for the next week. Tomorrow we will celebrate his FIRST birthday one week early with all the grandparents in town. This is one lucky little boy.