Once upon a time...When Nonni and Boo came to town.

We have had kind of an "off" weekend around here... Mitch has been on-call since Wednesday which spans over a week's time and means he stays longer hours at the clinic and has to be available for anything that comes up over the weekend.  He ended up getting 5 separate calls on Saturday and Sunday. It was not the weekend we were expecting. But he won't have to do that again until after the first of the year. It was hard to explain to Miss Scarlett why Daddy had to rush out the door really quickly over and over, but by the 3rd time it happened on Saturday and I explained Daddy had to go help somebody because their tooth was hurting she looked at me and said, "Are they frying (crying)? Daddy help them?" And then she smiled. She is a total character these days I seriously have an entire 8.5x11" page full of the hilarious things she has said to me over the past 2 weeks. I will record it on here soon! 

So, onto our main feature... Once upon a time, not so long ago... Nonni and Boo came to (as Scarlett calls it) "our South Carolina house." And we had a blast.  

We enjoyed this wonderful visit from my parents the week before last. It already seems like it has been a month. We mostly love spending time at home together and running around in our neighborhood. But Mitch took 1 day off work to spend with us so we went out on the town!

We started off in downtown Beaufort. We looked around in some shops and Scarlett played on the waterfront.

Then we grabbed lunch at what we think might be our favorite very yummy restaurant.

Boo likes watermelon too :)

I just think my mama is so beautiful!!! 

 

How hilarious are these two bobbsey twins?

 Then we hit the road for Charleston... None of us had ever been before. 

It was just as pretty as we had heard and I don't think we even saw the stunning areas. 

Here are Boo and Scarlett in the old train station that is now the visitor's center. 

Our main prerogative was to go to the Children's Museum because we had heard great things. 

It was really good, but a lot smaller than I expected. Scarlett played with the boats in the water room....

She even rode on her own pirate ship...

We did a couple other fun things... but the art room was definitely our favorite part! 

This is a Nonni original. It now hangs in SJ's little play-closet in her room :)

The easel was like a whole new world for this girl... We have never painted at home (crazy, I know!) so she loved this! 

We grabbed a quick dinner at U.S. Navy Fleet Landing in honor of our very own Naval Officer and it was yummy too. The salmon and shrimp tartare...outta this universe!   

The rest of our time together we pretty much spent just soaking up time with one another... swimming, golf, a little date out for Mitch and I, sewing... What people around here like to call "low country living." 

Yes, the grown men love the baby pool. Ha! 

And then the sun had to set on our little visit...

Nonni and Boo, this was certainly one for the books! We love you so much and miss you already. 

You are very loved by this sweet girl...

Scarlett is wearing another Nonni original. Her mousey-pumpkin dress for fall which happens to be sleeveless because we are having no drop in temperature here thus far!