Cousins

This week my nephew and two nieces came and stayed with us from Sunday to Friday. We had the greatest time. Those kids are so kind, appreciative and FUN. I couldn’t believe how few arguments they had in six days together and how gentle they were with each other’s feelings. (And I'm not just saying that because their parents will read this.)

Here are some highlights from our fun week:

We went swimming and the kids went down the water slide one right after another about 100 times. There was a lazy river at the pool with a whirlpool in the middle of it that the kids called “the toilet”. We were then graced with a barrage of toilet jokes while they swam in it all day. They’re very creative kids.

We went grocery shopping and I gave each of the kids a list of groceries to pick out all by themselves. I learned two things. One, kids pick the least healthy and most expensive form of all foods. Two, seven kids seem like 21 in a grocery store.

We went bowling and we had a really fun time. However, I am not sure if the bowling alley will ever allow us to come back. They now have several dents in their lanes from bouncing bowling balls and melted ice cream in the holes of their balls from lots of sticky little fingers.

We went to a huge park and played games and had a picnic. We went to the movie, Kung Fu Panda, and our row laughed so hard throughout the movie that we made the rest of the theater laugh. Very cute.

At home, the kids filled the week with skits, musicals, games, four wheelers, Wii tournaments and lots of trampoline wars. They tried several times to sleep outside on the tramp, but never quite made it through the night. They got rained out twice and scared three times.

They all are such cute friends. It does my heart good to see my children being influenced by such righteous, sweet cousins. We are really lucky. What a great week!