Testosterone X 5

Today I watched my sister Julia's three boys. So to say I was out numbered would be an understatement! It is a lot of work taking care of five boys! Here is a quick run down of their ages: Connor turned 5 in April, Mason turned 3 in July, Zachary will turn 3 in October, Cooper turned 1 this month, and Benjamin turned 6 months old today. SO.... in other terms: three are still in diapers, two of them are still nursing babies (no I did not nurse Benjamin, but I still had to sit down and feed him a bottle). One REALLY nice thing though is that Cooper and Benjamin both took their morning naps at the same time and all four younger ones took their afternoon naps at the same time. Oh aren't they so cute!

This was really funny, Zachary was not happy about something and he ran behind the couch to pout and cry. Mason immediately ran over to comfort Zachary. As you can see in the picture, Mason began patting Zachary on the head, said in a low voice "it's OK.... calm down... it's OK... calm down". Then Mason began signing "Twinkle, twinkle, little star" to Zachary.

Eating lunch

Benjamin laid on the floor and looked out the window during lunch.

Once Cooper was done eating his lunch, he though it would be a great idea to wiggle to a standing position so he could look out side like Benjamin.

During the little ones afternoon nap, I cut Connor's hair. I was a little nervous to cut it. Connor's Daddy is a bit picky about how it is cut. But I think it came out OK.

Before

After

After nap we played out side and just like all other testosterone driven males, they had to stop what they were doing to stare at a passing plane.

My Dad invited himself over for dinner (not knowing that I already had three of his other grandsons). We had a good dinner and played outside for a while after dinner.