Babies, Babies, Everywhere!

My friend Erin just moved last week and I brought the kids over to play and see their friends' new place so I could help her get a little organizing done. Since she has 5 kids under 5 year old, I can see why unpacking and moving furniture might be a bit challenging! We did manage to successfully re-arrange some furniture, make some space in the kitchen's eating area, and feed all seven kids lunch, so I'd say we did a good job! Erin's 2 oldest kids, Violet and Jack have been longtime friends of AJ's and they played nicely together. It's so nice how that happens now! They played in the kid's room and the living room, but mostly outside, which was good since that always means a good nap! But the babies...were all over the place! LOL Here are some of the pictures I got of Lizzy with the triplets.

Erin and I didn't plan to have Georgia and Lizzy match, great minds just think alike. ;)

Elizabeth with her potential future boyfriends looking on. Georgia was trying to escape.

And here's our usual view...the backs of heads.

And here are Dash, Georgia and Ben (from left to right) in their feeding table!

Elizabeth climbed onto Jack's seat at the kids table, and halfway through her yogurt took and unfortunate spill. She recovered fine though and kept trying to get onto the chair again! No, no, Elizabeth! We went home a little while later a yogurty mess of a family. lol

Elizabeth is still going through what I'm praying is a phase where she just cries and wants me to pick her up all day. Since I can't oblige, she crawls around after me sounding pitiful and I feel terrible, but I'm just not willing to carry around 20+ lbs all day and would rather her get used to her lower surroundings. Some days this works better than others and like I said, I'm hoping it will pass soon! My mom remembers me complaining that AJ did the same thing. How soon we forget, right?! And not much has changed. Both kids are generally happiest when they are clinging to me...here's a picture Andy took the other night which illustrates this phenomenon.

I was giving AJ airplane rides and Lizzy was excitedly waiting for her turn. Close to mommy on the floor = big smiles all around. If only I never had to make lunch,

talk on the phone or clean the dishes...

(as an aside: AJ has gotten great at balancing with me.

I can hold my feet straight up in the air with him on them,

and he can hold his lags out behind him and flap his arms in the air!)

And here's proof that my 2 "babies" can get along without me (sometimes). Here they are playing peek-a-boo behind their shower curtain. They were giggling hysterically. :)