slip n slide

Who doesn't love a slip n slide?? Caleb got a spider man slip n slide for his birthday so I pulled it out for the kids to play with. Obviously the babies don't really know how to actually slide but they loved the water that sprayed on them and the pool where the water gathered at the end.

It was a typical weekend day so Mya, Jen and Abigail came over from next door to play as well. This time was different though because I decided that it would be a good idea to slide...yeah, not so much. I think I knocked the wind out of myself when I hit the hard ground. Jen was nice enough to grab my camera and capture the moment and thankfully she did because I don't know that it will happen again anytime soon. Once was enough for awhile.

Cohen and Cecilia walking the slide and Caleb ducking at the end.

Crazy lady on the slide
Cecilia

Caleb

party time

We went to Meghan's graduation party and there were scattered showers but the kids were able to get out and play. They rearranged all of the rocks in Chris and Barbara's back yard and made sure that they tasted OK before they put them back. Grandma and PaPa brought their pool so they could splash around and play with rocks in there too. Thankfully they didn't do too much damage (I think) but had a great time. Grandma gave wagon rides in the rain. Caleb was at the lake and Mark was watching the world cup soccer game so it was just me and the kiddos.

Cecilia

Cohen

Christian

Ben, Cecilia, Cohen and Christian

The park

My mom, the babies, Caleb and I ventured out to a park that off Manchester Rd that was nestled in a neighborhood. It had a little water feature with was ok...it shot up one stream of water and then crashed down the the kids. I think it was meant to be more like a mushroom sprayer, but not so much. This was the first time that the babies had been to a park. Even with the two of us, it was pretty stressful. The babies are not shy so all 4 of the kids pretty much took off in different directions. Thankfully we were not there very long, but long enough to get a couple of pics of Caleb playing in the water. He and grandma stayed longer and I took the babies home.

I 'got my feet wet' but not sure that we will be doing that very often. The sad part here is that I feel bad for the babies that they don't get to experience a lot of the things normal one year olds would because there are three of them. Its the mom guilt that kicks in, but all the more reason to get that swing set in the back yard. We will have it before the end of summer. Right now I really don't even want to think about putting it up in this heat!!

Polite drivers

Polite and naked. They wanted to take a little drive after a dip in Grandmas pool. Cecilia was not really interested in sharing her car so I guess the 'road' was good enough. Cohen really liked the 4 wheeler too.

The boys

Caleb has throughout the past year definitely had his favorites among the babies. Currently Christian is his best buddy. Here they are one morning giggling.

Egg hunt

It only seems appropriate that I am just past posting about Easter that Caleb had an egg hunt for all of us. He had me close my eyes and count and then we had to race to find the eggs. The person with the most eggs won...hmmm..I wonder who won. He was nice enough to share the eggs with the babies who of course loved the candy inside...yum!

Cecilia Christian

Cohen

Memorial day...at the lake

Memorial Day always seems to be the official beginning of summer and lake time. This year was no different and we were prepared with large gates. You never know what to expect on trips with kids and they were great. We decided to put all of the babies, Caleb and one parent in the bottom room since it has such easy access to everything. This is the room that we have slept in for quite awhile, but we really have outgrown the small room and double bed. Caleb really claims this as his room and always wants to sleep there too.

Caleb is always great at the lake mostly because he LOVES it there. He has become quite a little fisherman this year and can even put his own worm on the hook and take the fish off sometimes. He loves to swim and even jumped off Eifferts dock (two story) with Mark. He's done it before which is still a total surprise to me since he still won't go down the slide on our dock. We hardly hear a peep out of him since he is so occupied with swimming, fishing and playing with his cousins. With most things we do not it always seems that we miss out on our time with him since the babies demand so much. Thankfully we have great family support and he is really good about understanding what the babies need. Our 100% Caleb time is during naps and after 7pm when the babies go to bed.

Babies.....They were all great. I came prepared with two large gates so that we could make a large yard area for them to play in that was safe. AS it turned out we really didn't need them, but it was nice to know they were there just in case. They all took their turns enjoying the view from the front of the boat, but Cohen seemed to be the most excited about the wind in his face. We really went from nap time to the boat for a ride. They played in the sprinkler one day and were ok with that. We put the boys in the water to swim, but they both screamed the whole time.

All in all it was a great weekend. Just getting over the hump of traveling with tons of stuff for just a weekend is the hardest part.

Christian and Mark

Caiden, Nolan and Caleb

Cohen

Cecilia