"Baby, come back."

"Baby, come back. Come back, Baby." So said Katie to Jamey at her goodbye party two weekends ago. Now that Jamey is more mobile and vocal, he is a much better playmate. It was indeed fun to watch the two of them take toys from one another and babble back and forth. In fact, it was hard to tell which one was in control of the other. Who was playing hard to get.

At the party, Katie continuously tried to entice Jamey with her fancy pink straws. He, though, just wanted to use them as drumsticks. As well, Katie was already cleaning up some for Jamey. Each time his sippy cup would fall over, she would quickly walk over and set it upright-- regardless of the fact that it is unspillable.

Perhaps the cutest scene, though, was when Katie was on the first landing of the stairs and Jamey had crawled up to the edge of the top of the staircase. Looking down at her, as she backed into the corner of the wall, Jamey began smacking his lips together, throwing Katie kisses. As Jess and Andy's friend Sean referred to him, Jamey was being a little "player."

And yet, the phrase "Come back" is more appropriate coming from Jamey to Katie, as Jess, Andy, and Katie get ready to move to Wilmington, North Carolina. The three of them came over for a goodbye dinner on Sunday night and once again, it was so fun to watch the two of them interact. Katie sounded like Christopher often does, as she declared all the toys "mine", while Jamey played his usual game of simply taking the toy that he wanted, not understanding "yours" and "mine."

But just before it was time for them to leave, we snapped one shot of the two of them together. It seems to me that it is one of those shots that Jess and I will pull out in 18 years when they are finishing high school, and say "Look how cute you guys were."

And to the Lamken's-- We will certainly miss you, but we will be sure to get the two lovebirds together every now and again. For now, they will each have their first long distance relationship.