Family Get-Together Weekend

So, I thought I'd post about our busy but fun weekend with relatives. It is always awesome to us when we get to spend time with any family---especially sitting around the kitchen table at Grandpa Leroy and Grandma Cloey's house. The three of us journeyed up to northeast Iowa to visit them, as well as Uncle Glen and Aunt Sandy since they were spending some time in Iowa the past week. We arrived on Friday night and spent a little time together before bed time. On Saturday, mom and dad also came to enjoy everyone's company, complete with a yummy dinner of chicken from downtown Winthrop (I can never pass up this chicken). Most of the time was spent chatting and playing with Ben which of course never ever gets boring! :-) We noticed this weekend that he is becoming more and more talkative. Daddy also says he is pretty sure he giggled for the first time (and I totally missed it!). Hopefully I can get some giggles out of him this week during playtime. Another fun thing he discovered this weekend was his feet! For weeks, I have been touching his hands to them and has had no desire to investigate more---until now. He was actually grabbing them a few times and looking at them very curiously. Pretty soon it will be a regular thing to touch toes and time will fly by with all the other amazing things he will be able to do. It felt so good this weekend to have Ben get a taste of family and spending time with all these wonderful people. I really want him to grow up loving those times there with family and having fun just being together. Great Grandma Cloey and Great Grandpa Leroy loved their time with us and Ben again (he's growing so fast!) and we would LOVE to come back and visit them soon, hopefully with some more of the Nickerson clan? :-)