Our good friends have gone on a grown-up/kidless holiday to Cuba for a week so Craig and I offered to look after their 3 boys for the last 4 days of their trip. Bailey arrived after preschool on Thursday morning when Shaun came home and I picked up Xan and Grayson later that afternoon. They will be returning home on Monday morning. It's been busy and this house has been SO loud! but we're having a ton of fun. I'm sure we'll be ready to send the 3 packing by Monday but they really are great kids, otherwise we wouldn't have offered.
Five kids under 5 years old for 4 days and 4 nights. AND the youngest is 6 months and still nursing. What were we thinking?!
Proof for Aaron and Melissa that their boys were happy the whole time they were here. Surprisingly, there have been no tears and only a couple of outbursts that required more than a stern reminder of the rules.
Xan will be 5 next month and is a professional at reminding everyone of the rules while he is in the process of breaking them. He is incredible at doing puzzles and building things with lego.
Bailey is 3 1/2 and goes to preschool with Shaun. They've been best buddies since before they were born because our families were neighbours and Melissa and I were pregnant at the same time.
Grayson is almost 2 1/2 and is always being left behind by the bigger boys. He spends a lot of time helping me do Mummy things. Poor little guy.
I was surprised to see that I actually got 3 out of 4 boys looking nicely at the camera. Just goes to show that their mum takes more photos than me because when I told them to look, they did. Shaun's off in his own world... smiling at the fridge??
I couldn't post photos of the children we're watching for the weekend and not add ones of my boys! I can't remember what I said that got Shaun laughing so hard but I sure got a great photo from it! Probably something about tooting or smelly socks since those are the funniest things in his life these days.
Ian's persistent mohawk is still around. No matter what I do: comb it, gel it, use baby lotion on it after a bath, flatten it with saliva - seriously!, it still pops right back up. I've decided to embrace it and am considering dying it green.
3 comments:
Wow...you are a brave soul! That's alot of boys in your house!! I bet the boys all had a great time together though.
I love the picture of little Ian. I haven't seen the boys in so long - hope you are all enjoying the new house.
Lacia, all went a lot better than we expected and even though it was tiring, we'd be more than willing to do it again. :)
Tara, I see you've been stalking the blog more often now. You need to start your own for Cohen so I can keep up with him!
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