Not Just the Two of Us

We have an even dozen nieces and nephews (8 from my side; 4 from his). Most of them have stayed at our house before, but we have never had any sleepovers without parents. This weekend we had my older brother's 2 oldest children stay over (almost 7yo and 4yo). There was a local production of Peter Pan, and we got tickets. The rest of the weekend...we just planned to have a good time. Here's how it all worked out...

Friday night: Have dinner with Mommy and Daddy and twin baby sisters before riding with Aunt Min and Uncle Jonathan to their house (1 hour away). Bailey and Landry are super excited. They are very concerned with "how much farther" it is to our house.

Get home, take baths, and watch part of a movie in our bed. I say a prayer before bedtime. Can you tell this little boy is raised in an agriculture family?

Landry: "Why you not pray for rain?"

Saturday: Early to rise! 6:30am the pitter of patter of little feet! They get in bed with us; I turn a movie so we can get a little extra shut-eye. It's up for breakfast then time to "swim". Oh, to return to the days when the hot tub seems as big as the swimming pool!

Playing "shark"...

Jonathan decides to trim our bushes after "swimming". The kids thought it would be fun to help.
They thought it was more fun to play with sidewalk chalk and bubbles though...
It was time for lunch so off we went to Chick-F-La for lunch. We had hoped to go to the park for a picnic and to feed the ducks, but it was too windy. Instead, we played there then came home. Little did we know, the balloon we got at lunch and computer games that came with the Kids' Meal would be great entertainment! The kids played the computer games all weekend...
It was soon time to go see Peter Pan. The kids were excited...
The show was long, but the kids were so good. I told them on the way that I had two rules. Bailey said she knew one: "Hold hands at all times." Her mommy would be so proud! I told her that was a great rule (we now had 3): 1) hold hands at all times 2) no talking when the lights go down 3) except if you have to go potty. Landry was entertainment for our section. He did not like the "scary" parts and would clap his hands over his eyes and say, "Oh, my. I cannot watch this."

The Aggie men were playing an important game while we were at the show. We recorded it and watched it when we got home. The kids were good to watch it with us and yelled when we yelled. It was especially cute when Jonathan would yell (after a good play), "That's what I'm talking 'bout!" and little Landry would echo, "That's what I'm talking 'bout, too!" Bailey kept score on her new notepad.

Our favorite quote of the day was when Landry said, "My mommy thinks I talk too much." We tend to think his Mommy is right!

We had movie night after baths and watched Kung Fu Panda. The kids loved their popcorn and M&M's...
Sunday: We went to church, and the kids were well behaved. We went back to the house and watched High School Musical 3 and had lunch before we fed the ducks, played at the park, and met Daddy to go home...
We love you, Landry and Bailey! Had so much fun!