Visit With The Puchs

The Puchmeyers came to visit us and meet Kate this weekend. Here is how it went:
-Kate cried the whole night before. All night.
-Annie cried in the morning. In a move of stellar parenting, I had to bribe her with a Pop Tart to even get her to come downstairs.

-Kate cried some more.
-Annie threw a number of tantrums.
-Puchmeyers arrived with lovely gifts (including more Christmas Ale!!) and a well-behaved Bella.
-Honestly, the middle is sort of a blur I can't remember exactly because my kids were being awful, and I was really tired. We did watch pieces of the of OSU vs U of M game. And I did drink some Christmas Ale and gossip with Callista. That part was quite fantastic :)
Annie and Bella did play together quite a bit, as well. Although Annie acted crazy. This is the only picture I have, which I guess is rather appropriate.

-Annie takes an all too brief nap with Matt (he was post-call) and later has a complete and total meltdown, causing Matt to feed her dinner by herself and threaten to put her to bed right then. They were pretty cute sleeping on Annie's big girl bed, though.

-In a brief period of happiness on Annie's part, she and Bella take a bath. That was quite cute.

-At bedtime, after we lay her down, Annie strips naked and pees all over her crib. She misses her pillows, but gets Kitty. We have to convince her to sleep with Mickey Mouse instead.
-Callista graciously holds and rocks Kate (who was crying again) while I clean up Annie and some of my house. I am an awesome hostess.
-We all go to bed.
-Annie wakes everyone up early the next morning.
-We eat McDonalds.
-We try to take pics of Annie and Bella together. Annie will not cooperate, so I go back to my old standby. As soon as the words, "I'll give you some Yogos" leaves my mouth Annie sits and smiles like an angel. I will post this adorable pic when I steal it off Callista's blog or she e-mails it.
-The Puchmeyers drive as fast as they can out of the state of Michigan. (Not really, they were really very gracious about the whole situation.)

We were really excited Callista, Jason and Bella came to visit. We missed them and it was so fun to hang out! We do not, however, expect them to want to come again any time soon. Our door is always open to them, and when we come to visit when their 2nd little girl arrives we will make no judgments whatsoever on the state of their household :) (which, let's face it, has to be better than ours was on Saturday).

Oh, and things have been much better since then. The girls calmed down and are acting generally lovely again.