Missing LouLou and Bub!

Saturday afternoon Uncle Jeremy and Aunt Amanda came into town for Addie's birthday. LouLou and Bub were going to come too, but LouLou got sick. :( So J&A brought Addie and Ben gifts on LouLou and Bub's behalf.

Here's the loot. (Note there are no pictures of the oodles of candy that was sent. Most of it got ripped into faster than any adult could anticipate! )

Addie got the cutest Minnie Mouse bathing suit and towel!

Benjamin got a Lightning McQueen bathing suit and towel!

Now the side story to the bathing suits is this: while we were cleaning up after dinner, Jeremy and Brian looked outside to the street and noticed a school bus going by and Guppy's minivan move. They looked at each other and said, "The van just moved, right?!" We ran outside and a neighbor got out of his car and said, "that school bus just hit your van!" The bus took off like a bat out of hell down the street.

Jeremy started running. and running. and running. Brian and Onkteb get in his car and drive off trying to find the school bus. Next thing I know, Jeremy calls my cell and says, "I'm with the bus and driver right now." HE CAUGHT the bus on foot! Seriously, I was shocked.

Very long story short, the bus driver was uber lost. She turned down the city streets, which really aren't made for school buses (parking on both sides of a one way street). She said she didn't know, etc. I called the police. It was a nice night out, and the police were busy with other more emergent issues, so it took quite some time for them to arrive.

Back to the bathing suits, Aunt Amanda spent all of this time corralling Addie and Ben. How'd she do it? They watered our freshly planted flowers all night long via filling water bottles at the powder room sink and carefully carrying them out to the flowers. Addie and Ben got wet on more than one occasion (as did Aunt Amanda!) but lucky for them, they were wearing bathing suits! So, thanks LouLou and Bub for anticipating what we didn't expect!!

We missed you! We're looking forward to our Disney trip with you in a few months!