Tate Date!!

Yeah!!!!!!!!!!

Poor Caroline took some time to warm up to the toddler wanting SOOOOO much to be near her and talk her ear off, not to mention a lot of poking her for attention. After a while she realized she was the older and wiser of the two and that must be cool.

loves her uncle Tater!

Abigail didn't get to pick her usual mint green w/ chocolate chips, she shared my oatmeal cookie w/ Reese cups in it.....but she was ok w/ it.

to be honest I can't tell you what flavor this was...maybe bubble gum?? I don't know but it was blazing blue and she loved it!

Ben opted for the dark chocolate flavor that gave him such a lovely shade of orange for his mouth. You can almost see the sugar pumping through his veins in this great photo!!! It's a good thing we took them to the park to run it off after this.

love those skinny legs of hers! Reminds me of growing up w/ another young lanky legged girl :)

Ben taking the little Bit under his wing and showing her how it's done.

poor baby, that train just kept going on w/o her! :)

Ben tried so hard to get the girls to do the "train" but Abigail just could not grasp to hang on all the way down.

I felt soooo bad for poor Ben....but I remembered the days when Shannon would torture me as as kid too. I guess it's some sort of Tate right of passage. Abigail and Caroline were certainly cool w/ it. :)

Brian trying to give the Bit a boost up the slide. She wanted so badly to climb up super fast like the other 2!

my usual 'wrinkles and teeth' pose w/ my sweet neice and nephew. Love the leftover blue lips!

Well sorry this took so long to get posted but my computer was having issues. But we had a great pizza spring date play date w/ the Tates last week. We filled our bellies at stop number 1&2 for pizza then ice cream which was a big hit with everyone. Ben and Caroline tasted (and modeled) the colorful kids flavors for us all to get a good laugh. And Abigail tried desparately hard to keep up w/ her Carowine! We finished the overstuffing w/ a late evening romp at the park and all 3 kids did a super job of entertaining us all. We went home exhausted full and happy. Thanks gang! Lets do it again soon!!!!!