Last night we did part of a "date swap" with some friends - something we have been doing for a couple of years now. One month, they watch our kiddos for 4-5 hours on a Friday night and the next we watch theirs. Erin and I both got to thinking, though, that it might be nice to have a whole night and part of the next morning free . . . so we just started doing overnight swaps! Last night it was our turn to chaperone the pajama party.
Doing an overnight thing with five kids under five can be a little scary at first, but it's worked out even better than we'd hoped. The boys sleep in the bunk beds, and the girls get to "camp out" in the basement. Kari Bou is a little left out, but she doesn't seem to mind too much.
Just watching the munchkins really got me chuckling. I couldn't help noticing how differently the girls and boys acted in certain situations. I took pictures of them while they were watching Monsters, Inc., because the way they sat together just seemed so typical . . . the girls all snuggly, practically sitting on top of each other, and the boys sitting a good 2 feet apart.
Then there was snack time this morning. They all decided to get goofy with crackers and wanted me to take a few snapshots. The girls, of course, wanted their picture together and were all smiles. The boys, on the other hand, each wanted their own picture and and wanted it to look ultra serious (which only made it look goofier). It's just so interesting to see these differences at such a young age. Not that the girls never play with trucks, and not that the boys don't occasionally enjoy walking around the house in pink princess shoes, but there are some definite differences in the way they're wired!
And where was Kari Bou all this time? Poor Kari Bou . . . she can't seem to avoid catastrophe for five minutes in a row. She managed to not only bruise an entire side of her face while at Burger King the other day, but last night she fell over the back of a rocker onto her face, got 2 fat lips and a bloody nose. So much for trying to fit in with the big kids. But her injuries did make her super snuggly, and I'll take that any day!
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The mystery of #4 has thus been solved! When the kittens are away, the mommies and daddies do what?
uh, that was a mystery?
OK, but the point was supposed to be the funny little gender differences the kiddos exhibited - not what Mommy & Daddy may or may not have been doing while they were gone! :-)
charity...i dont think im old enough to read your blog anymore...kids arent supposed to know that stuff about parents
scarred - I feel your pain. I'll never forget sitting in a chapel session in college, during which the speaker told us we needed to be praying for our parents' sex lives!! An audible "Ugh!" could be heard throughout the entire student body . . . not exactly the kind of thing you want to think about at 19! And I think I would be pretty wierded out to ever discover that Rachel was praying for our "alone times." :-D
im not even 19 yet!
(actually i just turned 18!)
by the way..scarred is your kid's favorite babysitter:)
know who i am?
I have no idea
OK, that didn't work . . . The words "no idea" were supposed to link to your site, Marfin!
Apparently, linking doesn't work on the comments page
haha...that would have been funny..nice thought:)
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