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Hanging with Friends

We invited a number of friends over that we hadn't seen in a long time to hang out and eat tamales, among other things. Of course it didn't take long for the kids to start riding Kellie around the house. She was actually very well behaved, all things considered.



This was also our first opportunity to meet Idris. Now I don't want to sound jaded, but I believe that there is something wrong with the child and he needs to be returned to wherever they got him from because he took one look at me and started crying. That's ridiculous! All kids love me! And, of course, Zoe wanted to hold him for some pictures and he was super thrilled about that.



I mean, the kid is just generally unhappy. At one point when he was sitting on my lap I had to hold my hand in front of my own face to keep him from crying. He never even looked content when anyone was holding him.



Pay no attention to the adorable baby Cheryl is holding! All of the kids got along really well. Babies played with babies. Big kids played with big kids. There was even a little dress up later in the night.



There are no pictures of it, but we played a game later in the night, a sort of free form Cards Against Humanity where everyone would take turns providing answers to questions and then someone who have to match them up. Zoe sat in on the game a learned some important life lessons, as well as expanded her vocabulary. Anyway, there are a few more pictures on Flickr if you want to take a peek.

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