Family Visits

The day after we got back home from Myrtle Beach Ken, Wilma, Vivian, and the boys all stopped by the house for a couple of hours. I think Drea entertained everyone. She always enjoys checking out visitors even if she isn't so sure about them. I'm glad they stopped by for a while. I think she really wanted to take away the x-box controller from Conrad. She thinks they are teethers. Everything in the house is a teether.....except for actual teethers. Those don't get the job done apparently.
On August 4th I took Drea to Piedmont to visit Nannie (my paternal grandmother). Nannie hadn't seen her since around Mother's Day and had told me to come by again any time. We had a nice visit with her, and the three of us went out to grab some lunch. Drea enjoyed eating green beans. Lucky for us she didn't make as big a mess with those as she does with sweet potatoes. Nannie showed her a dancing turtle (it dances to the song Can't Hurry Love). At first she was interested, but afraid at the same time. She sort of reached out from afar like she wanted to touch it, but wasn't quite sure it was safe.
It took her a while to finally get up the nerve to grab it. It's so cute to see her curiosity and interest in everything. She is scared of new things and people sometimes, but she never lets that stop her. She keeps trying until she finally works up the nerve to examine them.

With these two family visits she was sort of nervous about letting unfamiliar people hold her at first, and she kept wanting to come back to me for reassurance, but I was so happy to see that she did eventually let them hold her a bit without any tears and eventually warmed up enough to have some fun with them.