This past Saturday night, we got a nifty opportunity. We had my sister and her family over...for a slumber party. Chris affectionately calls them "The Beths" because my sister is Elizabeth, and my niece Annabeth. He calls my other niece CharlieBeth. Not sure what he does about Uncle James. But anyway, Uncle James was in town ever so briefly before heading back to the Army. They are shipping him to Afghanistan next month. And he had to report to the airport at dark thirty the next morning, so we got to keep the girls for their first Slumber Party at Aunt Cathy's new house!
Not exactly a happy occasion for them, but we made the most of it. After some dinner and the kids needed to run off some energy. I swear we offered Lisa and James the opportunity to make a date of it, but somehow we just ended up having a heck of a good time playing around our place. The kids went outside. Ever try to put 4 preschoolers in 1 picture, yeah, wasn't going to happen.
But Uncle James and Aunt Lisa enjoyed tossing a few kids in the air, and we tossed back a couple Summer Shandys.
The kids decided they wanted to take a walk around the block. Ironically it wasn't the kids who actually did any of the walking. They Rode. In. Style.
Chris and Annie took off. It's kind of a scary sight, a picture of things to come, when the older (not necesarily wiser cousin) brings his car over to take his young cousins out for a spin. Oy.
Leaving the jealous youth behind.
So, about, halfway around the block, we swapped the passengers in the car.
And Oh My, Charlie went from 1 to 15 in 0.5 seconds!
Check out little miss rico suave putting her arm around Chris. She had the other one hanging out the side of the car. Oh yeah, she was Cool. And I don't think cousin Chris could've gotten anymore cool in their eyes.
Jealous siblings dash forth while the Daddys bring up the rear.
And yes, I know, it's breaking like 18 rules to have a couple kids riding in the trunk. However, the weight limit in the trunk is 50 pounds. And Sam and Annie together weigh about 44. See, there are perks for having dainty children. Driver and passenger can each be like 100, and there's not even 100 pounds of kids in there all totaled.
Chris was a super safe driver. See, he was doing the driving, while we were doing the drinking. It was a good night. But the kids were great. They only fought going to bed for about an hour. We started with all 4 in the kids room. Then bumped Charlie out to the Butler bedroom, and Sam in his bed with Daddy and Chris in the snore room. Ironically Annie was out cold first.
But morning came and brought much cuteness and more time for play. The girls played hard. Chris just wanted to watch cartoons that at first scared Annie like Transformers and Batman, but we found some Veggie Tales that she enjoyed much more.
And Charlie chased us all around. Love this girl's hair, she uses whatever she's eating as ultimate moisturizer. So precious.
Charlie and Sam are so alike in temperament, mostly pretty mellow, but when it gets ugly it gets very ugly. And Annie and Chris are Lisa incarnate, crazy feisty, but such lovers you can't enough. And we couldn't. I didn't think I'd say this, but I'm actually really looking forward to them all coming over again soon. Maybe Aunt Lisa would stay over too next time. ;)
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