5 kids ages 3 and under

These pictures aren't terribly interesting but I wanted to document my day of 5 kids ages 3 and under :) On Thursdays I babysit my SIL Victoria's kids, Amelia and Zach who are 1 and 2. Jessica and Ryan were closing on their house that day and needed someone to watch their kiddos, so I told them we could. Jackson is 1 and Cooper is 3. And of course I had Ben who is also 3. So needless to say it was crazy at my house until about 1. Then Ryan and Jessica were finished, we had nap time, and it all calmed down! :)

We played outside at 8 am when the grass was still wet with dew.



By the time the kids were ready to come in they were all kind of fussing that they were dirty (sand and grass all over) and Amelia is going through a clingy stage so if I even touched Jackson she would scream and hang onto me.

In the midst of cleaning all the legs so we could go inside Ben was running around playing soccer in the yard when I saw him fall down. He runs over to me and says he stepped in Jake's poop! So I took off his shoes but I didn't notice anything on them.

(a little sunny I guess!)

I kept smelling something gross (you know!) when I then realized I had some on my hand!!! (AHH!)
I didn't know how it got there until I looked at Ben and saw that he didn't step in it, he fell down in it! It was all over his shorts!!

At this point Jackson is naked and I'm trying to clean him, and Amelia is still hanging all over me screaming, but I'm trying not to touch anything since I'm disgusting!

Needless to say we all finally make it inside and I glanced at the clock to realize it's only 8:45!!! I was thinking it was at least 10! The rest of the morning we stayed inside and had a much calmer day. :)

Do you like all the different hats? I raided our collection and just put hats wherever they fit.

It ended up being a very fun, but exhausting day!
Yesterday Ben and I were at Home Depot and we were sitting in the parking lot when Ben got all excited because he saw the tractors!! I couldn't figure out what he was so excited about - we see them a lot and he never really cared too much. He kept saying something about them being real. I kept telling him, yes, they're real. You can use them to cut your grass. He then said why is the black one not real? I told him that was real, too. He said, No it's not, it doesn't have a face!

So by real he meant alive! I thought that was so funny! No wonder he wanted to buy one so badly! I think maybe we've seen Cars a few too many times :)