A Day with Cousins

The other day Ballerina randomly came to me and asked to play with her cousins. I thought, "Why not?" and we arranged a play date. It's a bit of a drive, so we normally only visit when we are down at Grandma and Papa's for a holiday or something. The cousins have a dog that Sweetie just loved. I don't know that the feeling was mutual.(I realize I should do a better job with the girls' hair since I am always taking pictures, but I am imperfect)It also happened to be my other sister-in-law's birthday, so we arranged a birthday celebration for her. Grandma L came as well. We had diet friendly Angel food cake and strawberries sweetened with stevia. (I've lost 5 pounds so far!)
Happy Birthday Aunt M!
Our cousins also have MANY rabbits! The kids were crazy over the bunnies.

Ballerina wants three bunnies now, thanks to this.

Cousin I with a brown bunny:
Cousin C and Sweetie made a grass nest for their bunny.
Sweetie was pretty happy with making a grass nest for the bunny. Whenever I tried putting the bunny in her lap she would be excited, but would back away.

Ballerina and Cousin A with their bunny:

Making a grass nest. Feeding the bunny a dandelion.

Later Ballerina made a "hotel" out of buckets for the bunnies, but I didn't get pictures.

I brought my violin and played along with my little niece A, who is learning. She is using the Rainbow Tones method and I think it's awesome! I might use that with Ballerina when she's older.

We had a great time with cousins and the girls didn't want to leave!