We Survived

I offered to host my brother's three kids this past week while the boys were on spring break. Every time I do this, I somehow forget how wild and crazy 5 kids can be in one little house! Sunday night, I headed back to CO from spending the weekend in NE with 5 little kids and one me. Thankfully, all of them are pretty good travelers and watched movies the whole way back. I will admit, though, that I am one person who is not cut out for more than two kids. Feeding them is probably the most challenging thing during the day. They all want to eat at the same time and complain about who got their plate first. I have Siahna climbing onto the oven while I'm making food, the boys walking around asking when lunch will be ready and Corinne asking for help to dress her baby.

Not only that, but we have a yard that they can't play in because we just reseeded it last fall so the grass is just starting to grow and it was pretty chilly all week so when they went outside it wasn't for long. On top of that, the two activities that I did take them to, cost almost $100 for 5 kids to do. Oh, and buckling them all into their carseats takes about 10 minutes so I had to always plan ahead when we had to be somewhere by a certain time. I seriously don't know how people with multiple children do it. I love those kids dearly, but I will admit that I did breathe a sign of relief last night when Katie's parents picked them up.

Shiloh took Monday off and went to Treehouse Discovery with us (indoor play area).
Corinne loves to play dress-up.
Day 2 we went to Monkey Bizness. This is the slide that the boys spent 2 hours playing on. Corinne would climb to the top, get scared to come down, bounce around at the top, push the boys down the slide and then come down on the ladder. She did this multiple times.
The jungle gym at Monkey Bizness.
Day 3 we went to the Littleton Museum (it's free!) and walked around the farm. The boys found this leftover hay maze from Halloween and had a blast playing on it.
Kyler is hard to see but he's right behind Corinne's head.