cousin chaos!

Tuesday night we had the pleasure of having Kelsey, Emma, Jimmy, and Gracie over for a few hours. The boys were very excited, and waited with their faces pressed to the glass door for their cousins to arrive. Things started out normally enough. Everyone colored, the boys ran around with dump trucks, the usual. But then Kelsey and Emma got out this huge bag of crafts that Aunt Dana had given them to share with all the cousins (and can I just add, "thanks" for that, Dana -- I'm going to be finding tiny foam pieces and beads for the next 30 years).


That's when the scene descended into madness, at least for a while. As you might expect, every kit and packet was dumped into one huge pile -- oh, except for the glitter glue, which got spread all across the hardwood floors while I was making dinner. Good times.


After dinner (and I have a newfound respect for anyone who can watch six kids while cooking dinner!) we retired to the living room to watch Dora. Liam even tried to interest baby Gracie in one of his toys. Nice sharing!


Then the kids wanted to have a photo shoot. Here are the best of the bunch. The last one is, I believe, the first time Liam has ever willingly posed when someone asked. I guess the trick is that the right person (Kelsey) has to be the one doing the asking!