Auntie Anna

The long farewell started about a month ago with the departure of Auntie Faythekins and Uncle Stephen. Last night, it continued when we had Auntie Anna over for a goodbye dinner. She is heading out to UMaryland (go Terps?!?... wait, no, we can't say that on this blog!) by way of NJ and leaves on Friday. The whole Tochka clan was sad to say goodbye -- even Besnik sensed that something was going on.

Here he gets his first ever (European) football lesson. As you can see, he may be best suited for the goalie position. He did kick it a few times after Anna demonstrated, but then went back to the picking up and dropping game.
Anna was kind enough to take a family portrait picture...
And here are Momma and Anna after dinner and cake...

After a bath, Besnik stayed up a little later than usual to play with Anna some more. He even gave her a big kiss (making her the first non-family member to receive such an honor -- as far as we have seen at least.) He was all smiles and hugs -- and there is a cute picture of the two of them with Momma that will have to be added later since it was taken with Anna's camera.