Family Fun

This weekend, Jason's sister and her family came up to visit. Jason's niece, Avery is very close to superhero status in the DeWitt home. She is the surrogate big sister to Madeline and Sawyer and they worship her. It is really great for Avery to be around the girls for many reasons.

The best reason (other than the fact that she is a great kid) is that she can be used as a behavior management tool for both of our daughters. For example, "Sawyer, if you don't go to bed right now, you won't be able to play with Avery tomorrow." Miraculously, Sawyer's behavior corrects itself when threatened with "no Avery time." Another thing is that Madeline can get the "little sister" treatment for a while, and can begin to understand what Sawyer goes through.

Overall, we had a great visit. The Honakers' brought their Wii and we collectively rocked out on Rock Band for a couple of days. I've never really seen fake drumming go to someone's head like it did to Jason's. I think he accomplished the equivalent of smashing the drum set....Wii style.