Renting...a Family

Earlier this year, Kristin asked us to watch the kids while her and David went away for their 9th anniversary. After checking to make sure Matt was on his week off, we said yes. 

So we rented (babysat) Grace, Kate, and Parker for June 8th, 9th, and 10th. We arrived on Friday about 3pm. David and Kristin left soon after. We got the kids dinner of Macaroni and Cheese and Watermelon. We asked the kids if they wanted to eat outside and they said yes. It was uneventful, except that Parker tried to flip backward off of the table and I barely caught him before his head hit the cement underneath. 

We were able to put the kids to bed without any problems.

Saturday ended up being a longer day. We wnated and planned to take the kids to Lagoon, but we got a late start in the morning with breakfast. So instead of going to Lagoon early, we decided to go after dinner. What to do with the kids until then? It is quite interesting to go from NO kids to 3 kids, ages 5, 3 and 19 months. The kids wanted to stick around us and have us play with them. So I talked Matt into taking the kids upstairs and downstairs to clean and straighten up, while I cleaned the main level. We got a lot straightened up and time passed by quickly. 

We put Parker in bed for a nap and the girls went to their favorite friend's, Cowen, to play for about an hour. We got dinner ready, this time we ate inside. After dinner, we went to Lagoon. We had a fun 3 hours. It was actually cold that night, so we had coats on from the start. 

Here are a couple of pictures from our fun adventure with our "rented" family at Lagoon. 

Parker was funny about the rides. He was excited to get on, but once we put him on the ride, he would cry. He would continue to cry until the ride started and then he would smile and enjoy the ride. Silly little boy! Katie and Grace enjoyed the whole time and wanted to stay longer. 

I love this picture. The girls love Matt and Matt loves them.
They are headed off to the TidalWave as their last ride before going home. 

Parker is crying on this ride. Matt and I just laughed
because he liked this ride the last time we had come.

Katie-bug in the lady bug. 

Parker in the bumper cars. We weren't going to put him
on them but he cried when the girls were getting in,
so Matt put on the ride. He didn't enjoy it at all. 

We got a video of Parker on the bumper cars. 

We sent it to David and Kristin. They enjoyed it while off on their weekend away.