Visitors

     Bright and early this morning, our daughter, her husband and two kids and their dog arrived after driving all night from Florida.  They will be with us for a wonderful week, celebrating three birthdays while they are here, though daughter's actually isn't until shortly after they arrive back home.
     Their daughter is our youngest grandchild.  She was born on Thanksgiving Day last year, so her celebration is the biggest, her 1st birthday.  She is just on the verge of walking, cruising around anything she can grab on to or pushing behind a little cart walker.  She has a little vocabulary already, responding with "Dog" each time she sees or hears one of the 3 dogs.  She constantly points and says "What's that?"  Her sign language vocabulary is larger than her verbal one.  A beautiful little girl.
     Their son is the youngest of our grandsons, a bright, verbal child about to turn 6.  He has an amazing reading ability, I love listening to him read, sounding our words he doesn't recognize on sight. 
     Our skittish, shy little German Shepherd has decided that he is ok and doesn't run and shy from him, allowing him to pet and hug her.  Ranger, the Mastiff loves everyone and has been found standing guard over Nadia a couple of times.
     Today was mostly a stay at home day, to give them some relax time after their drive.  We did all pile into their new Honda Pilot to venture to Target to return a coat for Nadia and get a smaller size.  They were unable to find a coat in Florida for her.    This was after a short trip to the farmer's market, which is winding down for the season.  Several vendors have already quit for the season and a couple of our friends finished their season today.  There will be a few vendors that continue on most weekends for the winter, with meat and cheese, so our trips will be fewer until the spring arrives with a renewed growing season.
     We will take advantage of the fairly nice day tomorrow and the fact that the hunter's won't be out tomorrow to take a mountain hike, maybe with all three dogs in tow.
     Monday we are off to Floyd to School House Fabrics, lunch and to pick up our free range turkey for our Thanksgiving dinner.
     Daughter will be getting knitting lessons, sewing lessons, and soap making experience during the week.
     The two sweaters for the kids, both fit!  Yay.  The Darth Vader and Monkey hat and mitten sets were a hit. 
     We love it so much when we have one of our children and their family here for a visit. 
Life is good.