Last weekend, one of my good friends and former teammates came down to Greensboro to visit! It was awesome to see her (Denise) and her son (Jeffrey)! Denise has been "traveling" across the United States with her hubby since she got married and when she does make it over to our neck of the woods Sarah and I get super excited! Sarah, Denise, and I did gymnastics together for 10+ years and now we are all married and have young babies. When we do all get the chance to get together it's like a mini gymnastics reunion and this was the first time our kids have all been together!
Jeffrey is probably one of the coolest babies I know next to Mackenzy's boyfriend, Grey. He's about 4 months old and has the cutest chubby cheeks! He just went with the flow as we "ooo'd" and "ahhh'd" over him and passed him around on the humid Saturday morning. He even tolerated mom (aka Denise) putting him in the swing!
After a while, all of the excitement caught up with him and he took a power nap on his grandma. Grandmothers have some special power over grandchildren that always makes them go to sleep... Mackenzy's grandmother's do the same thing and I have yet to learn the trick!
And of course Mackenzy had to play in the sand and attempt to "cook" with a shovel and cup...
Then she had to attempt to climb onto the frog...
Riley must have thought climbing was fun because he came over to join her! They were playmates all day and Mackenzy was trying to boss him around... She kept saying "Come here Riley" and told him to stop when he was turning the wheel on one of the toys.
Mackenzy spotted what she thought was a "blow" (aka Dandelion) and tried to hard to blow the seeds off of the flower. She was very disappointed when the didn't fly like she wanted them to, but she sure looked cute while she tried!
Ok, nevermind the fact that I was caught mid sentence in this picture and Sarah was smiling... She could have warned me about the camera! Anyway, about 5 minutes later, Mackenzy was on the swing by herself and fell off in to the puddle underneath. She was fine, but she had to walk around with a muddy butt until we left...
All of us together... graduated. married. and with our kids. STRANGE!
Mackenzy and Riley
And for the finale. Mackenzy finally learned what she is supposed to do when someone says, "Say cheese!" All you have to do is say the magic words and she'll give you that million dollar smile!
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