Our WONDERFUL husbands took the kids for the day and sent us out shopping to the Dallas Galleria on Saturday.......carte blanche! Oh, we were SO excited - totally ready to spend, spend, spend. Carte blanche, they said!! We had permission! And you all know what happens when you have money to spend right?! You find NOTHING!! It's Murphy's Law! Oh, we tried. We both tried on over way over 50 things throughout the day - but they just didn't work! We came home essentially empty handed - but we had a great day away and even got exercise walking from store to store!
While we were gone on our not-so-sucessful shopping trip - the men took the kids on a very successful Toys-R-Us shopping trip. Each kid got a sword and shield - and they battled eachother with them all weekend. Poor Jordan got tag-teamed by my boys!! Matthew even found a "battle mask" (Kylie's headband)!
Wow - can these 6 kids put down a lot of food! It felt like all they did all weekend was eat, eat, eat!!
And here's a picture of the cousins before church on Sunday. I know - this is NOT the best picture - but I took about 6 and this was the best we got!! You try and get these kids to look at you and smile all at the same time. It's IMPOSSIBLE!! We wish all of our other cousins were there too! We love you Jack and Eddie!
The funniest thing about the entire weekend was the interactions between these little kiddos!! I had HIGH hopes of Zachy and Alexa being best friends!! Oh no!! Nope! Not even close!! This picture captures the one and only "nice" interaction between them of the entire weekend!
I would be holding Zachy in my lap and Alexa would come over to give him loves!! Alexa is a lovey, lovey little girl - which is SO sweet and adorable............until she gets so overwhelmed with her feelings of love that her little face turns red and her little head starts to shake and she attacks!! Even though Zachy outweighs this little pixie-girl by over 10 lbs - I think (he'd never admit it) - that he was a little scared of her!!
There was also the fact that Zachy is a big-time momma's boy!! He did NOT like mommy holding or loving on another baby. Zachy was a bit jealous! He's the baby...and he told us so!
Auntie Allison - Zachy, you want to give the baby (Alexa) loves?
Zachy - NO! (with his best grimace and pointing at her)
Auntie Allison - Zachy, is Alexa the baby?
Zachy - NO!
Auntie Allison - Zachy, are you the baby?
Zachy - YUP! (with a smile and one strong head nod).
Someday - they'll love eachother! What a fun weekend!
4 comments:
You are soooooo lucky to live by family .....on both sides!!!! I love ANY pictures you take of the kids -the crazier, the cuter...and those are some CUTE kids!!!!!
How fun!!! I'm sure Jack and Eddie would have just died and gone to heaven with a sword and shield!!! LOL!! I'm sorry you and Allison didn't find much on your shopping extravaganza!! Hopefully Troy and Bret gave you rain checks? ;-) I can't wait to get all of the cousins together again!
So jealous of the shopping trip! I loved the pictures. Family time is the best, huh?
I miss you!
Hi - I love your blog! And I can completely symphathize on your comments on about the questions you get with twins - you will also never catch me calling Austin and Brandon "the twins" and I cringe anytime anyone else does. The "double trouble" comments really irritate me too - I typically just ignore them but I'm sensitive to when it might eventually bug the boys. Even at 4 1/2 I still don't think they really know what it means to be twins other than we explained they were both in mommies tummy at the same time and Austin was born first (and pee'd on the doctor) while Brandon wanted to stay in my tummy as he then had lots of room with Austin out :)- to them they are just "bro bro's" and best friends which is all that matters to me.
Take care and it is so great to hear how you are doing.
Renee
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