hey bébé: Family Time Y'All.

We have been able to spend so much time with so much family this summer, it has honestly been truly amazing. I have always been a huge advocate of family time and that is one of the biggest reasons that I just had to come home from Paris when I did. Family is something that I just can't live without and thrive when I am around. I hate missing those things that normal people dread going to - showers, reunions, plays... all that jazz. Even though I have always put a lot of effort into doing as many family sponsored actives since Max's arrival our weekend schedules have pretty much tripled - I think we are booked for months out at this point. I am actually almost dreading the holiday season already. I have no idea how we are even going to remotely start to make that work, but that is an entirely different bag of beans we will have to deal with at some other time when it is much closer. Normally our weekends and even some of our weekdays are filled with the usual suspects - Babci, Memere and Pepere, Gigi and Grandpa, Aunts and Uncles and a healthy dose of our other "family" the Ieracis. But this past week we were able to spend some time and a lot of it with family Max was finally able to meet for the first time her cousins Valarie and Sarah and Uncle Michael - who will now be referred to as Vooyek Mishu (my semi polish for Uncle Michael, although Mishu isn't even Michael is teddy bear or something but it sounds good). Max may be too young to remember this first visit but it was her first time hearing a legit souther drawl and the word y'all - I promised the girls they will have to teach Max the proper use and pronunciation of this word because us New Englanders prefer you's and wicked. It was a pretty good time, we shopped (a lot), went to dinner, celebrated Max's two month birthday and Vooyek and Daddy's birthday, watched the terrible and entertaining Sharknado movie and really were able to have some quality time together. It was a lot of normal things that we would do anyway but better because we won't get to spend a lot of one on one time with the girls and Max - Texas isn't exactly down the street so we have to make the absolute most out of every minute we get to have with them. These kind of days just all seem a little more special than normal because I realize that even though she won't remember it yet these days are just the start of some awesome memories we will make over time as our new family.