From our ongoing trip to Ohio, a few more snaps from our first day here (the same day that produced the water play and chasing the geese posts)....

Anthony found a couple tiny toads in the grass, and brought them over to a "toad house" garden ornament, and put them in. He closed the door and intended that they would live there, but I suggested that he should leave the door open and let the toads decide for themselves. He really didn't like that idea, but in the end relented....

As I mentioned in the previous post, there's a confluence of cousins (or grandkids, depending on your point of view) going on at my folks' place, where Anthony has finally gotten to meet all his cousins. Yesterday and today have been non-stop play, non-stop photo opportunities.

I was too busy/exhausted to process them much yesterday, and today is no different, so I'm just going to throw up a few pictures from the first part of yesterday, mostly for the benefit of the extended family who haven't joined us...

The new sand pile my folks made in preparation for the summer [...]

I posted yesterday about Anthony's cousin Titi, and today we add Jena (10 months), Luke (24 months), Josh, and Grace. Anthony had played with Josh last year, but otherwise didn't know his cousins. That was rectified today.

The day was nonstop pandemonium, and all parents involved are totally exhausted, your present author included.

Anthony's youngest cousin, Titi, was born four months ago to Uncle Alan and Aunt Natalie. We learned that they were expecting when we were here last year, and now we were able to finally meet her.

Alan snapped a picture of me with Titi during breakfast at a restaurant...

Later at Grandma and Grandpa's, after Anthony played Baseball with Uncle Alan, we let Anthony try holding his youngest cousin a bit...

Titi's mom and her mom (Grandma, AKA "Baba") were there, so I took the opportunity to grab a three-generation shot...

Uncle Alan stopped by to visit for a bit with his wife and four-month-old Titi. He didn't have long because he had an 8-hour drive home waiting, but he had time for a bit of baseball with Anthony.

I took a bunch of shots as they played... here are some I like, arranged as if they were all from the same pitch. The different lighting (the sun was in and out of the clouds) is perhaps disconcerting, but I figure it's a slightly better ordering than "random"...

Anthony was pretty good at hitting.... he's not too bad with me when [...]