Friday, July 18, 2008

So this is what's it's like to have 5 kids under the age of 6.

On the ride home from the cabin we stopped at a hole in the wall Wendy's to eat. When we got home my sister called me to ask if I could watch her little boy Drew for the first half of the day while she was in class, and I said that would be fine. Unlucky for Jason and Brooke, they got the WORST food poisoning from Wendy's and in the middle of the night Jason and Brooke called to see if I could watch Chase that day.

At 7:00 am Cohen and I went and picked up Chase, then we drove to Orem to meet my sister to pick up her kids after swimming lessons, I then drove to American Fork to drop Audrey off at school and Corbin off at Char's house so he could carpool to preschool. Then it was just me and the 3 boys (Drew 1, Cohen 10 months, Chase 6 months) for the next few hours. Luckily they were never all awake at the same time for that long. Plus they were all really well behaved. I dropped Drew off at home at about 1:30 and then it was just Cohen and Chase. I also had activity day girls, that I was in charge of, that day so instead of trying to take both boys I dropped Chase off at Casabars for an hour. I later picked up Chase and headed home. The day went rather smoothly all things considered...until night time him. Both Cohen and Chase had started to get tired and both wanted to be held. However, being held wasn't enough, they wanted to be walked around, that didn't last long with a 20lbs baby in each arm. I dropped Chase off just before his bed time (Jason and Brooke were feeling a little better) and one of Brooke friends was coming over to get up in the night with Chase. I've ALWAYS wanted twins. Even after Cohen was born I was still thinking I could handle twins. Having 2 babies for a whole day wasn't bad at all but I did learn one important lesson: I'm nuts for thinking I could have twins with Josh's work schedule. I did fine all day long but it was the night time that got hard because they were both tired. Josh works late and is unable to help put babies to bed. Putting 2 infants to bed by yourself would be a challenge and my hat is off to the moms of multiples managing chaos all the time. I don't know how Jon and Kate (plus 8) do it?? All in all we had a fun day and Chase got to come and play.

1 comment:

brookelovesjay said...

how cute are our boys! what a crazy day for you! i still am so appreciative of what you did, you are a great friend!