Cousin Fun!

Becky, Emerald and Crystal were down visiting this past week (Jason got to have a break and stay behind).  They came just for fun and we had SO much fun with them!  Let's see if I can remember most of the fun things we did....

We went to Skymania in Kirkland for the toddler jump time.  It is a giant trampoline place and during toddler time all kids have to be under 5 so it's much safer!  The foam pit is always the best part for the kids.

We had a slumber party at grandpa's house.  We only planned to spend one night there but it was so fun that we had to stay another night.  Keaton and Emerald have very similar personalities and get each other very worked up and hyper.  So things were pretty crazy with the two of them.  Luckily Crystal is the opposite and very laid back (I don't think we could handle a third crazy kid).  Keaton picked up some bad habits from his older cousin, Emerald, like constantly closing doors.  Luckily no fingers got in the way of all the closing doors.  He also learned that there is life after 8pm and one night got to stay up until almost 10pm.  Must have been the ice cream cones grandpa fed them...

Keaton did learn some good habits as well from his cousins like going potty in his toilet.  I've never even seen him take off his clothes before so I think his cousins must have influenced this exciting event.  I was surprised he even knew what it was for since it's usually a step stool and even been used as a hat.  But he sat down and went right away so he knew what he was doing.  We'll stay in diapers for a bit longer though since I don't think we are completely ready for the transition (at least I'm not).

We went up to the outlet stores in Marysville in search of some jeans for Becky and another pair of shoes for Emerald since she insisted she needed more shoes (she sure is girly...although she also likes fishing....in her best princess dress).  We didn't end up buying either.

Then we stopped by Cabela's up there, which is quite a store.  The kids saw all kinds of animals like grizzly bears, polar bears, deer, fish, etc..  And got to play on a big boat.  I also let them play with a game there but it wasn't very politically correct so I won't mention it.  I got scolded by Becky which was a good thing.

We went to story time at the Monroe Library where we heard stories about butterflies and then got to make our own.  And play on their very cool kid computers.  I just got Keaton a library card and we have started checking out books which is fun.

We went to dinner at our  Aunt Jeanne's house (my mom's sister) and saw relatives we hadn't seen in many, many, many years.  It motivated all of us to do a better job of staying in touch.

Becky, Grandpa and kids went to the Mount Lake Terrace pool but  Keaton and I didn't get to go due to Keaton's "mystery rash" that was covering his entire body.  Doctor didn't know what it was but pretty sure it wasn't contagious since no one else ended up with it.  During that outing they also went to the Goodwill outlet store in Everett where things are practically free.  They were nice enough to buy Keaton a few things including same DVD about trucks that he watched at Nana Tarr's a few months ago.  They also got him a book on throwing tantrums which was very appropriate (hopefully it helps).  They also visited Rich.  It's probably good Keaton wasn't there because Rich has a lot of electronics that Keaton would have got in trouble with.

We went to Kidstock in Edmond's.  It was an all day event where we had front row seats to the Recess Monkey's (thanks to Keaton who loves music and would have been on stage if it wasn't so high up).  The kids got their faces painted, got to make snacks and jump in a bouncy house. 

I think the most fun the kids had was just playing with each other...jumping on the bed or running around the house... (I tried to insert a few video's but couldn't get it to work).  It's always the simple things that make kids the happiest.

Emerald invited us to her 5th birthday party in May so we should probably show up for that!  Things are pretty quite around here now after our busy week of fun!  We miss them already but Keaton's daddy is probably happy that he's around a bit more now (and I'm sure Jason missed his girls too)!