Piper Time!

the saturday before devs had to go back to work, she and patrick graciously let me and mom come over for a little bit of piper time and graham time! mom is famous in her love for babies and little kiddos and is dying for her own grandchildren... which she is unfortunately not getting anytime soon... so she just borrows other people's kids... please be weary if she tells your kiddo... "hey... wanna see my blind kitten?!"... i swear, it's innocent and all... and she does have a blind kitten... who is super duper cute... anyways... i digress. 

mom was flying in on saturday afternoon and i knew she's love a quick visit with the larkins. she hadn't seen piper since she was a tiny baby! i knew it would be a bit of a hectic weekend since dev's was preparing to go back to work and all that, but like i said, dev was super gracious in letting me and mom stop by for a bit. she even sent pictures she took with the funniest captions... and since she has so much stuff to blog about on her own blog and i thought they were the cutest pics/captions... i thought i'd just post it on her behalf! i also took a bunch of pics from that day... and i'll post a few of my own too later...

the scamming begins

the loot

the watch

the bracelet

and the ring

oh yeah, and an iphone

luckily, your mom had collateral!!

i think the pigeon scared you :)

 just to supplement the pics a bit... on the way over, i was telling mom how adorable the kiddos are and how piper is in a "it's piper's!" phase. and not just a "it's piper's!!" in a super cute way, a 'i love shiny sparkly jewelry way and iphone way'. mom was just sure piper wouldn't care about her jewelry b/c she wasn't wearing anything particularly shiny or sparkly and i told her.... well, i'll bet she likes it and asks to "try on?" in her super sweet cute voice that you just can't resist. as you can see from the pics above, not only did miss piper like mom's jewelry, she liked quite a few pieces!

and as for the iphone, i just couldn't take the droid i had anymore so i finally found one to buy on ebay for a pretty good deal and since i realized after talking/visiting with verizon that there was no chance of getting a new phone deal before end of march next year, i decided 9 whole more months with that shitty phone was just not gunna work for me anymore. and when you amortize the cost of what the new phone cost over 9 months plus the aggravation of the old phone... it was totally worth it. but it quickly became 'piper's!'. and she took quite a few pictures for me (i'll post those in my next post).

as for the last picture, miss piper asked me to read "don't let the pigeon drive the bus" book. super cute. and dev was right, the pigeon totally scared me... he almost drove the bus! a pigeon driving a big bus sounds pretty scary!! :)

mom really enjoyed seeing what a neat, sweet, smart little girl piper is becoming and she loved holding the sweet baby, graham, who is beyond mellow and adorable. and so, thank you, devon and patrick for making a little bit of time to share your family with me and mom!