A Crazy Friday

July 19, 2013

Today did not start off the best.  I had a migraine - like issue this morning after breakfast and went back to bed.  I was rarely bothered, but the boys did come in and out to check on me.  As Art was leaving, he snapped this picture

I was alternating between using my sleep mask against the sun and talking to Yannick about the pictures in his baby book.  After about 11am, I felt much better, and finally got out of bed.  By then it was too late to join the Garden City moms at Happy Hollow.  

Worked out fine because we had the J family over as a pseudo date-night.  It was their turn, but they had just had one, and so we compromised by having them over for dinner, and putting the kids to bed so we could all play some board games.  An easy dinner of tortellini and homemade french bread.  Holly brought a yummy salad, and we decided to feed the kids early,  and let them play while the adults ate.  We ate outside, which is always lovely!  No mosquitos.  No humidity.  Their son E was not as thrilled with this arrangement and did not want to stay inside playing. :)

We finally put the kids to bed - all in the same room tonight.  It's a party night!

On normal date nights, we split the J kids into three different rooms, but tonight being festive, we went for the kid party.

Six kids in one room!  We used the bunk beds, the mattress, the toddler mattress, the pack-n-play, and yannick's bed.  wow.

It took FOREVER for them to go to sleep, but we suspected that.  The J kids had a very late nap and were exceptionally well rested.  i think Zachary was the first to fall asleep. Yannick was so excited that kids were getting out of bed, and he wanted to get out of bed.  Needless to say, the adults had to go in there several times!  But they did calm down, and go to sleep, eventually.  And the adults got to play the train game and chat.  It was a great time!