what do you do when a heat wave comes?

you stay indoors and catch up on blogging.

i finally uploaded pictures from my camera...the urgency of seeing pictures of my neices when they visited last weekend was what drove me to do it. i miss them tons!

Here is the Jeffers family in full, riding the NYC transit: Katie (with Baby 3 in belly), Samantha, Andrew and Hannah (making friends from her stroller).

Hannah. She was hilarious riding the subway. She waved at everyone, made friends everywhere and made lots of funny faces like this one.

This is Samantha, now four and a half years old. When I said goodbye, we were both really sad. She said, "I'll always remember you" or something to that effect.

I guess saying goodbye is sort of like dying??

She's not afraid of posing. I think this picture is so GORGEOUS.

I really do wonder if there are any kids cuter than my neices! I probably won't think so until I have my own. There's something about them being related to you that makes them more precious than anyone else's kids...