Playing with Cousins

On Saturday afternoon, all of us headed over to the Jefferson's to visit with Alli since she was in town. While we were there, we dressed the kids in bathing suits and headed down to the river below their house to play in the water. We were having unusually hot weather, in the mid 80's.

While at the river, the kids enjoyed walking around on the big rock and letting John soak them with a bucket of water.

After playing in the River, we headed back up to the house where the kids had a fun time playing in the hot tub, prior to heading in to get baths and get dressed.

Christmas 2008

On Christmas morning, we had Santa time once all the girls were up. They were all very excited. Surprisingly the night before when we were on the way home Emily mentioned for the first time ever that she really wanted a doll house. By coincidence the twins actually got a doll house from Santa and Emily got a bike. Once the kids had looked through all the Santa stuff, we headed outside for Emily to try out her new bike.

Once it was a reasonable time we all headed over to the Jefferson where we all exchanged gifts and had an early lunch.

Later that evening I went by and picked Walker and Steff up and took them and Emily over to the Christmas house in Kim's neighborhood. They were amazed.

Visiting with Aunt Margie 12-13-08

After the girls awoke from their naps on Saturday, we made our way over to visit with Aunt Margie who was up for the weekend. We all visited for a while upstairs and played while JOhn went to help with Gran. As it turned out, Alli was also up for the weekend and Walker was over to play. After playing, visiting, and the girls eating dinner, we made our way downstairs to see Gran. It was very amazing that with a little candy, Bailey was able to be coaxed in to sitting with Uncle Gran.It was so cute!! I was even able to find the cat, who does not like to be heald that much, and she sat on the bed and let Bailey pet her.

Monkey Joe's March 8, 2008

After nap time, we came back over to pick up Walker and Alli to go to Monkey Joe's. The kids and Wilbur all had a great time!!! During our trip, Emily and Wilbur even took their picture with Monkey Joe.

During the kids snack time, we got more than a few looks and ohs, as people looked on thinking we had 5 kids =) They were all behaving great, but people were still shocked. Since having the twins, we have been flodded with coments like that is too many kids (Emily and the twins), people being sorry about us having twins, etc. It has always been more than irratating and made me feel sorry for what people with triplets or more go through with people and their comments. Lets just say peoples reaction today gave me a whole nother level of sympathy for what others with multiple children go through.

While at Monkey Joe's all the little monkeys ran wile, jumped, played, etc. All the cousins really enjoyed being together. For parts of it John took the older three around, while Ansley, Bailey, and I went to the special jump area set up for three years old and younger. They loved it. They crawled, bounced, stood up, and were very silly.

After a while we all met back up to play, have a snack, etc. After snack time we played for a while longer but it was getting so busy that we decided to call it a day.

After leaving, we went back to Granny's house where we ate dinner and then headed home.