Swingin' with Maria

Today was our first full day with Maria visiting our house.

Ryan and Mikhael flew off to Seattle this morning, before anyone else got out of bed. B, Lauren, and Maria all slept in until after 7:30 am. After breakfast and some morning playtime the girls took naps until about 11am. When they woke up it was time for Colette to take everyone to the park for some playtime.

She packed the girls in the double stroller and Brayton being the big boy he is, helped Mommy push the stroller up the hill to the park. From the sound of it everyone had a great time playing at the park. Everyone got to do plenty of swinging in the swings, but Brayton felt he got the shaft. He normally gets to sit in the enclosed swings, but there are only two at the park up the street. So, Colette had to put him in the "big boy" swing. He didn't like it one bit. If you watch the video, he wouldn't even say "Hi" to Grandma.

After Colette wore them out playing at the park, the kids took great naps. I actually got home around 4:15pm and Brayton was still sleeping. We woke him up, ate supper and then proceeded over to Buellow's for the monthly "Flamingo Friday Night" party.

Phil and Beth had their little swimming pool out, and some of the other kids were playing it. So, we stripped the girls down to their diapers and let them play in the pool. Lauren immediately screamed, she thought it was too cold. Maria on the other hand had a ball. She was splashing and playing, pushing the boats around and kicking her feet all over. Brayton got in the pool as well, but of course was trying to splash everyone until I started splashing him back and he realized it wasn't that much fun getting splashed.

We came back from Buellow's about 7Pm and tossed all the kids in the tub for bath time. After some frantic washing of kids, we pulled them out and systematically got the diapers and pajamas on and then one after the other they all went to bed.

Not one kid cried when put down for bed, a good ending to a great day.