It all began back in December, with an innocuous email. One of my best friends from college, to three others of us, mentioning a husband's weekend away and what a fun time it would be to have one of us come to have a kids weekend at her house. Two of the three of us were takers...and thus was the beginning of a weekend with four kids under four, in February, in Rhode Island (WTH?!?!?!).
So, very early in the morning, MP2 and I set off from CoMO...on a week of good solid sleeping from bedtime to 3:30 or 4:00 am each day! We drove to St Louis, flew to Detroit, then to Boston, then rented a car and drove to Little Compton. Unfortunately, our plans to share a rental car were foiled by winter weather in Houston, creating flight delays extraordinaire. Regardless, MP2 was a trooper on the trip. He did just great in the car, at the airport and on the plane. I felt like super mom keeping him on his nursing and solids schedule that requires him to eat every 90 minutes or so, and we landed in Boston smiling.
MP2 found lots of fun new things at the Hollands'...baby dolls
...and MUM MUMs! (He only got one since I am crazy and when I read the ingredients and saw they were not just rice cakes!!! I couldn't take it...and Whitney just had to laugh at me. He sure did like it though :))
Avery was SO sweet to the little ones. OH2 took the cake as the littlest baby, but she had a lot of fun with MP2 as well.
(and MP2 loved Avery's tutu)
I wanted to get a shot of Alex - here he is kissing MP2, but as was Alex's MO all weekend, he does not stop moving long enough to get a focused picture. That little guy is on-the-go. At one year older than MP2, he showed me what I have to look forward to this time next year!
It was such a great time. All of us were totally on board with the low-key, flexible, kid-friendly weekend. And it was a good thing, since on day 1 we tried to leave the house, and by the time we had all eaten dressed napped fed changed etc, it was 3:30....then when we loaded our four children three strollers and one dog into two cars, it began to rain. All we could do was laugh and plan to try again the next day. Luckily, Sunday was sunny and unseasonably warm, and we enjoyed a great walk near the beach. (Clearly unseasonably warm is not actually warm)
Look at these cuties. (Why so serious baby Max?!?!)
It was such a great great weekend, and I hope that we will be invited back (and that MP2 will sleep more soundly the next time!)For more takes on our fun, check out Whitney and Jessica's blog posts.
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