5 kids under 5 for a week!

For a week in May my brother's kids came to stay with us.  It took some convincing for my sister-in-law, who was 35 weeks pregnant, to fly to Hawaii and leave her other 2 kids for so long but she did it!  My brother had to go for a conference so they only had to pay for her ticket and food.  So for a week we had:

2- 4 year olds (Charlotte kept lording it over Eliza that she was 4.5 not just 4) and

3- 2 year olds

My mom took off a couple of days to help and see the grand kids and my sister Marti came and helped a couple days too.  Honestly 3 kids by myself is harder than 5 kids with my mom or sister to help any day.  Kori also took 4 of the kids one morning so I could go to the grocery store and Charlotte's mother's day program.

"Helping" Grandma make brownies.

Probably the hardest part was that my twins were both just barely potty trained- so they had a lot of accidents because they were too distracted and they had to use the bathroom every where we went.

 The kids just played and played all day.  My house was honestly less messy because they got out less toys than usual because they were so entertained just chasing each other around and playing pretend.  Plus there was an extra adult to help clean up too!

 Cousin bath time!  We tried to bathe them in shifts but they just kept hopping in.  Good thing our bathtub is extra big!

 Story time- sort of.

Meals were kind of a circus.

I was so impressed how happy Coulson was the whole time considering he doesn't see us very often.  The only thing he really got upset over was the magnetic trains at Barnes and Nobel.

Outings
Sat- Train park
Sun- Church
Mon-Library- the bathroom was tricky at this one
Tues-Park and Joann's- for about 5 min just to get batting
Wed-Barnes and Noble- again somehow I ended up in the bathroom with 5 kids by myself- and Coulson was not happy to leave the train table!
Thurs- Kori's house to play

All 5 of them took a nap at the same time every day.  It was really LOUD and it took forever to buckle that many kids in- even though the older ones could do it themselves.

Finally got my pictures off my phone-

Story time with Grandma- Coulson cracks me up!

Three 2 year old helpers making crepes.

Choo choo!  Train park!  We kept having to count to make sure we didn't lose anyone!

 Matt's first time at the train park.

 Coulson ate like 5 peanut butter sandwiches- that kid can pack it away!

Poor kid hit is head on our lethal counters that are just the wrong height for little kids!

Eliza ate a ton of corn on the cob!

It was so fun to get to know these 2 kids better!  My kids didn't know what to do with themselves when they left!  Send them back again sometime- when Miles and Adelaide are a little older!