miles thomas!

Saturday afternoon we loaded up the fancy loaner van (mine is in the shop) and headed to Naperville to meet our new nephew/cousin, Miles Thomas. What a sweet boy! You'll be shocked (shocked!) to learn that Max was the only one of the boys who was actually interested in holding the baby. Side note: Max still says he wants to be a teacher, but man that's a hard job. I think he'd be *much* better off as a pediatrician, even with the extra schooling. But that's a talk for another day.

I got to spend plenty of time cuddling my sweet new nephew during dinner so Erin could have both hands free to eat and direct the other kids (I remember those hectic days with a newborn ... just barely). Among the older kids, there was much playing outside, which resulted in mud everywhere, including all over Liam's phone, but everything cleaned up fairly well (except for Henry's shoes and pants, which ended up not being salvageable at all). And as always, we tried to get a picture of all the cousins, with very limited success.