Grandpa and Grandma Klein visit and more hiking!

Tom and Char (Grandpa and Grandma) came to stay with us last week for awhile. It was a great visit. It had been a few months since they had seen Thomas and he has changed quite a bit! Thomas loved hanging out with them right away. The first day of their arrival unfortunately coincided with the end of Thomas's sickness of Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease. I knew this illness from working in childcare and it's usually in daycares or schools so it was weird that Thomas got it. It was horrible. I have never seen Thomas so upset in his life. It was 2-3 days of complete misery and then he was much better. Luckily by day 2 of Grandma and Grandpa's visit Thomas was much more himself. Char got him coloring the most he has ever colored and we all taught him how to only color on paper with a few rogue marks here and there. We went for walks around the neighborhood and took Char to music class with us. Once Shem was home from work for the weekend we got to go on some big hikes. It rained their last day so we just spend the day inside coloring and reading. Thomas thought Grandpa Tom and his antics were pretty funny. By the end of the week, Thomas was calling them "Bapa!" for both Grandpa and Grandma and he would go around the house looking for them. It's been a week and he still asks for them! We have also been getting more time with Uncle Doug and as you can see, Thomas likes coloring with him too. He also has started to love wearing my sunglasses around. I got him a pair of his own and he wears them now when we are out in the sun! I am really glad I got him geared up with those before our Palm Springs trip next week. We had an awesome time with the Klein side (thanks guys for a wonderful visit!) and are about to go spend some time with the Kirby side! I also threw in some pictures of more of our hikes. Thomas loves exploring nature and his favorite thing to do these days is throwing rocks into water.