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Minot - Thursday and Friday

If I wait until I have time to blog the whole weekend in one sitting, I may never blog again. So - I will do a little here and little there.

We spent last weekend in Minot with my family. This is our third year in a row and its a great tradition to have started!! I was certainly curious how it would go this year since our family has grown a little :). I started making lists of what to take a couple of weeks ahead of time and started packing 5 days ahead or so. And that doesn't include the things that I bought in Estevan ahead of time and left there. I felt a little funny at the border when we first pulled up with a vanload of babies (that don't even look alike!!) but they believed our 'triplet' story and away we went.

The babies slept most of the trip and had their bottles as soon as we arrived -

Right away that night most everybody went for a swim. My mom had bought a kiddie pool and set it up for the babies. They LOVED it. Dylan was a bit of a crazy baby in it though. Sliding around all over the place. Crawling in and out of it. Landing on his face. Poor kid is constantly covered in bumps and bruises. His new name in my book is "bruiser".


Look at the other two, calm and well behaved :)
Swim time is over and Evan has found a comfy place on grandpa for his bedtime bottle. I guess I should explain that we have poolside rooms with a big open space between us and the pool. That gives us all this room to hang out and for the kids to play. It's the perfect set up for us.

Caden swimming with Auntie Trinda and Uncle Adam
He just loves it and it makes me feel even worse for him that we never get to go to the pool anymore!! Ah well...
Friday was spent mostly just shopping and hanging out at the hotel. We finally had a chance to take the triplets into the big pool. We blew up their rings and were ready to go. They are so happy. Liam just doesn't know what he is in for!
Dylan and Evan got into the pool no problem - just like a couple of weeks before when they went swimming for the first time. Liam had screamed that time and we didn't put him back in. So this time I held him close to me and we eased slowly into the pool. It was a little cool and since Liam gets his aversion to being cold from me - I was happy for an excuse to ease in slowly myself!! :) Just watch his expression:
Hanging on for dear life and wondering why I am torturing him like this
He's loosened his grip but is still not too sure (in the meantime his brothers are splashing and laughing and having a grand ole time)
And here's our big happy family! And Liam has decided that swimming isn't so bad after all.
In the evenings we were able to put the kids to bed (that's 10 cousins, 8 of which are 5 and under) and sit around the tables outside of our rooms. It was fun to hang out and visit. We fit three playpens into our room no problem and the kids slept the same as they do at home (which isn't great but at least they didn't seem bothered by being in a different place). So that was thursday and friday. Stayed tuned for saturday and sunday....

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Anonymous said…
Way to holiday with the gang!! (Next time, try to convinve grandma and Grandpa to babysit while you and Justin get a night out).....all your boys are growing up quickly!! (Except for Justin, he's about the same).
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