Brian caught this cute shot of Maddie and Parker sleeping one night. Ben, Maddie and Parker had a blast playing together for five days when Kristie and Anthony's family came to visit us after Christmas. They spent a lot of time going up and down the stairs formuating big plans of what they would do next. For the most part, everyone got along. Kristie regulated any disagreements because she could move so much faster than me and I was just too tired to care most the time.
McKenzie tried and tried to keep up with the older three kids but just couldn't move fast enough to stick with them. She learned how to go down the stairs. We had only one incident where she fell down the stairs and it wasn't really her fault. The three big kids were being ghosts with blankets over their heads running around. Of course they couldn't see where they were going and someone ran into poor, unsuspecting McKenzie who just happened to be standing next to the staircase going down to the basement. At least it was only a half flight and she recovered quickly. Those are just the growing pains of life, right. Now we have strict rules about blankets and covering your eyes.
At night time, we would put all three of the big kids in one room and McKenzie in her own. McKenzie would drift off happily. Parker, Ben and Maddie would laugh and giggle and play in their beds for literally hours. If we put them down at 8:30 they would finally drift off to sleep around 11:00. They had so much fun and it was delightfully pure laughter coming from their room. Despite our constant prodding to "be quiet" and "stay in your beds" we adults did enjoy their happy giggles.
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