A couple weeks we had a glimpse at what life could be like for us someday... We watched my sister's 3 kids for a week while they went on vacation. I want 5 or 6 kids so the week was kind of like practice for us... Ashlee made it easy on us though and arranged rides for all the kids' various activities so I basically just had to be home when they would leave and get home, and make them meals and put them to bed. I thought it was a pretty good week. Ashlee will have it much harder when she watches my kids for a week. Here's some of the things we did:
We stayed at my house the first night since the kids didn't have school. They got pretty bored at my house though. Especially during nap time when they had to be quiet. They did have fun playing twister though. They also had fun when my dad came and babysit them all (except Kenzie) so Doug and I could go to a Valentine's fireside at the church. I also took them all shopping with me so I could get some great deals at Albertsons. I even bought them all some candy since they were so good. And we found out the Albertsons gives away free cookies to kids.
This is Mackenzie's very cute Valentine's day outfit. The little skirt has heart pockets. Isn't that cute? :) Since it was Valentine's Day we had some pink heart pancakes for dinner. And I made some homemade syrup. Everyone wasn't as excited as I thought they would be about the homemade syrup. I thought it was pretty good though. We had the same things the next Sunday too.
The rest of the week we just hung out at Ashlee's house. The kids played well together. Jackson and Jordan loved all the toys there. Jordan especially loved all the puzzles there. That's what he did most the time. Puzzles are pretty much his favorite thing to do. Then on Saturday we took the kids to the zoo. I thought it would be fun and that they'd love it... Some of them did. Some of them didn't. Since it was a Saturday and a really nice day there were tons of people there. So it took forever to find a parking spot. We passed a park while trying to find one and the girls asked if we could just go to the park instead. I told them we could have went to park by there house if we wanted to go to a park. Samantha thought that sounded good and kept saying while we were there that she wanted to go home. She didn't seem to like the zoo very much, until I let them go buy something (with their own money) at the zoo store. I like the above picture because of the grumpy look Kimber had. It kind of of symbolizes the zoo trip... She was grumpy at the beginning. Jack was a little whiny and so was Jordan. Alli was the only one who was happy the whole time.
Us with the tigers. Sam was funny. At one of the bear exhibits we wre all looking for the bear and she said she saw it so I went by her to see if I could find it to show the little kids. But when I went over there I saw a sign that said there were no animals in that exhibit so I told her that's what the sign said, but she kept insisting that she saw one.
This picture is from after we were don't watching my neices, but I'm too lazy to do another post. It's Jordan and Mackenzie. Mackenzie is 5 months old now. She can sometimes roll over from her tummy to her back. She loves to smile at everyone and often seems like she's looking around for someone to smile at. She's a happy baby. She loves the jumpy toy. I still like doing her hair and recently bought some more clippies. She does good when I do her hair. She doesn't usually cry. She squirms a lot though so I have to try to be fast. She's still super tiny.
I cut Jack's hair last week. I cut it shorter than I ever have. This one is the before shot. His hair was the longest it's been in a long time.
Here's the after shot. And he's still so cute.
We stayed at my house the first night since the kids didn't have school. They got pretty bored at my house though. Especially during nap time when they had to be quiet. They did have fun playing twister though. They also had fun when my dad came and babysit them all (except Kenzie) so Doug and I could go to a Valentine's fireside at the church. I also took them all shopping with me so I could get some great deals at Albertsons. I even bought them all some candy since they were so good. And we found out the Albertsons gives away free cookies to kids.
This is Mackenzie's very cute Valentine's day outfit. The little skirt has heart pockets. Isn't that cute? :) Since it was Valentine's Day we had some pink heart pancakes for dinner. And I made some homemade syrup. Everyone wasn't as excited as I thought they would be about the homemade syrup. I thought it was pretty good though. We had the same things the next Sunday too.
The rest of the week we just hung out at Ashlee's house. The kids played well together. Jackson and Jordan loved all the toys there. Jordan especially loved all the puzzles there. That's what he did most the time. Puzzles are pretty much his favorite thing to do. Then on Saturday we took the kids to the zoo. I thought it would be fun and that they'd love it... Some of them did. Some of them didn't. Since it was a Saturday and a really nice day there were tons of people there. So it took forever to find a parking spot. We passed a park while trying to find one and the girls asked if we could just go to the park instead. I told them we could have went to park by there house if we wanted to go to a park. Samantha thought that sounded good and kept saying while we were there that she wanted to go home. She didn't seem to like the zoo very much, until I let them go buy something (with their own money) at the zoo store. I like the above picture because of the grumpy look Kimber had. It kind of of symbolizes the zoo trip... She was grumpy at the beginning. Jack was a little whiny and so was Jordan. Alli was the only one who was happy the whole time.
Us with the tigers. Sam was funny. At one of the bear exhibits we wre all looking for the bear and she said she saw it so I went by her to see if I could find it to show the little kids. But when I went over there I saw a sign that said there were no animals in that exhibit so I told her that's what the sign said, but she kept insisting that she saw one.
This picture is from after we were don't watching my neices, but I'm too lazy to do another post. It's Jordan and Mackenzie. Mackenzie is 5 months old now. She can sometimes roll over from her tummy to her back. She loves to smile at everyone and often seems like she's looking around for someone to smile at. She's a happy baby. She loves the jumpy toy. I still like doing her hair and recently bought some more clippies. She does good when I do her hair. She doesn't usually cry. She squirms a lot though so I have to try to be fast. She's still super tiny.
I cut Jack's hair last week. I cut it shorter than I ever have. This one is the before shot. His hair was the longest it's been in a long time.
Here's the after shot. And he's still so cute.
3 comments:
What a fun post. I can't believe you did so great with all those kids! You are a pro!
Tell Jackson that Carinn says "thank you" for the birthday e-card. This morning she told me she wants to move to Seattle. I was surprised because I didn't know she knew anything about Seattle. Brian must have been talking to her about it. Anyway thanks again for the care. See you guys in July!!!!
care=card. ;)
Kenzi's v-day outfit is so cute! I have a jean skirt with heart pockets too...we could be twins! :) i would let you borrow it, but it would probably be too short for you.
And you forgot to mention in the post that I was there visiting that week and they all got to see their favorite Aunt Michelle. :)
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