Babysitting the Boys

A few weeks ago, we got to watch Danale's kids for the weekend while she and Justin attended a wedding.  I loved having the boys around! They are so sweet and it was nice having a little extra bonding time.

I gained a new respect for people with twins!  Carter is three months older than Paige and Ashlyn is three months older than Colton.  In my book, that's close enough to count as twins!

Little Carter is a snuggler!   One of the things I love about babies is rocking them to sleep and having them snuggle up on your shoulder.  Unfortunately, Paige is just too active to want to snuggle and wants to be layed down by herself when she is tired and ready for bed.  Carter filled my cup!  :-)

Paige wasn't always excited about me holding another baby.  Luckily, Jessica is AMAZING with babies and always happy to help.   I have no idea what I would do without her.  She makes my life so much easier on a regular basis.  

Ashlyn and Colton were a crack up all weekend!  I would have loved to have been inside Colton's head just to hear what he thought about all the freedom he and Ashlyn found themselves with!  At one point, the babies were down for a nap and they were happily playing, so I jumped in the shower to get cleaned up for the day.

 I was feeling a little bit like super mom.  I thought I had it all under control!  Two babies down, everyone was fed, changed and clean (except me), house was sort of picked up and I had a huge smile on my face.  If I didn't have to do anything else, I would love to have babies all day long.   When they get older, its just a lot of driving them around and squeezing in parenting moments when you can.  Anyway, I got out of the shower, dressed and came down to check on the kids (hair still wet, etc).  I laughed out loud and followed the trail of Fruit By The Foot wrappers into the garage (our play room) to the two culprits. 

I had never worried about what Ashlyn was getting into in the cupboards because she would always have come to me and ask me to open it.  I could say no or maybe later or whatever so I didn't have a rule about not getting into the cupboards.  Ashlyn had just learned a few days before that she could open just about anything with a pair of scissors.  And they did!  There were no less than 15 Fruit By the Foot wrappers (I had just picked up a box a Costco) and three opened packages of Top Ramen.  They weren't interested in eating the Ramen, but it made a great crunching noise when the dinosaurs would stomp across it!

The smiles here say it all!

My monkeys jumping on the bed before bedtime.

Super fun, busy weekend, left me with a full heart.