VA trip

Okay, okay, so it has been a couple of months since my last posting and I have had a couple more adventures that I need to post. First we went to Virginia for a week to babysit for my brother Eric and his 5 kids + a dog! Crazy, I know! They did let us bring along Cricket so the photos will show Cricket and her mommy Honey. I forgot the fact that I brought my camera so I only have pictures from one day while we were there. It was when our friends Miya and Hunter came to visit us at the crazy house, Jacob was taking a nap like a good little boy while Brenden and Hunter decided that it was more important to hang out with each other than it was to sleep. It was one day, who cares about nap time for one day.
It was a fun trip/experience, I don't think I am going to have that many kids of my own, especially with Matt never home, I barely made it the one week on my own. It wasn't the older girls, they were pretty much able to take care of themselves and were actually really helpful, it was the fact that I had an almost three-year-old, and a two-year-old and the only time to escape them was during sleeping times. If one wasn't asking for something the other one was and vice-a-versa. There were plenty of times where they were both asking for something different or complaining that the other one had their toy. Bed time was also a headache because neither one ever want to go to sleep. Brenden is pretty good about staying in his room even if he is crying but Jacob gets out of his bed and crawls into Olivia's bed who then starts complaining that he is in her bed. And if he isn't in her bed then he is leaving the room and trying to sneak off to another room.
My last night there I found him in the twins room with a bottle of nail polish on the top bunk telling me that his tongue was burning because he had tasted the polish. I didn't really want to go to the ER or call Poison Control so I just called Matt and asked him what to do. His counsil didn't make me happy which was to keep him up for an hour and pump him full of liquids. I was really looking forward to some quiet time but didn't get any. Everything turned out okay, Jacob eventually went to sleep and I got to watch whatever movie it was that I wanted to watch.
Next time I am asked to babysit for anyone with three or more kids for longer than a day, I will seriously have to think about it.

Brenden and I did take a day off and went to visit his Great Grandpa and Grandma Clater. It is always nice to see them and visit with them. It took Brenden a few minutes to decide whether or not he was going into their house and then if he was going to be nice to them. That was the first time I have seen him be shy towards anyone. Now it happens quite frequently.

Here is a video of the kids playing bubbles.