A fun time was had by all...

On 7/18/10, Dakota got to meet a few of his dada's cousins and their kids at his Great Grandma & Grandpa Banks' house!
We adults had a great time catching up, though catching up takes much longer to do when each of us has to take turns running after our children to keep them out of trouble, lol!!!
I use to marvel at what I call the "MOM RADAR", when a mom is able to stop a conversation, get her child back to safety and/or in eye sight and return to the conversation picking up right where it left off, like she never missed a second of it! I realized at that visit, that I now can do that too, lol! I guess it is a skill you develop only after becoming a mom of a moving child!
The kids were a bit shy at 1st, but quickly made friends and had a blast playing all over the house and getting into everything possible!

It was crazy fun for sure!!! Check out the great pictures!
On the left is cousin Marianne & her son Grady, who is very adorable & 10 months old!
On the right is cousin Bonnie with her sweet daughter Brinley & Grady. Brinley is 16 months old and expecting a baby brother in October! Woot, woot another boy!!!!! Thinking about it, the Banks side is a bit boy heavy....From the 5 Banks Grandkids, there are/will in October be 9 Great-Grandkids and only 2 are girls! How cool is that!!!
Thinking more on this, my side - the Schneider side has more boys too, but just slightly....of the 16 Schneider Grandkids, only 5 of us have/will soon have children so far....there are 9 Great-Grandkids, 5 boys and 4 girls. COOL!

On the left is Andrew, Dakota and Great Gpa Banks! Nice looking guys!
On the right Great Gma Banks is playing with Dakota, Brinley & Grant (Marianne's 1st born, who is now 3 and very fun!), good times!! Notice that only Dakota is climbing the boxes, Andrew is SO proud!

Left - The Boys being boys, SO fun & SO adorable!!!!
Right - Grady, Dakota & Marianne, playing with Great Gma looking on!

Left - Marianne's family - Hubby Kurt & Boys!
Right - Grant, Brinley & Dakota

Baby Grady!

As you can see, a fantastically fun time was had by all despite the hot, humid, muggy day that it was. We were all worn out when play time came to an end, even Great Gma and Gpa! Thanks for all the fun Banks Cousins!!!!