More Is Caught than Taught: Cousins Weekend

This weekend we had the distinct privilege of hosting 5 of our 7 cousins from the Posey side of our family in home!! What a fabulous time we all had together!! The day started with a visit to see Connor & Paigey in their LLU (Little Lancer University) Trike-a-thon for the St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

Paigey thoroughly enjoyed riding her two wheeler all around with her friends!!

Afterwards their teacher thanked them for their great riding and for all the money they collected on behalf of St. Jude's for the children.

Back home the cousins all enjoyed a "picnic" of juice and freshly baked cookies that the girls made. It was our first sunny day in over a week and everyone was thrilled to be able to be outside having fun!

The kids had a ball doing a "homemade" obstacle course in the back yard.

First stop was to ride the car down the hill to the sand box. The older kids laid on top of the roof.

After a creation in the sand box they had to use a soccer ball to knock down some "bowling pin" jugs. (This was harder than it looked!)

There was a golf spot. (Macy)

A wheel barrel push. (Jake)

A soccer shot. (Macy)

A sand box dig. (Jake)

A balance beam. (Connor)

A hot lava pit jump! (Zak)

And victory of accomplishment! (Macy)

Jake shows off his fireman skills.

Zak and Willow put on an acrobatic show for us.

Their skills and creativity were amazing

(and are now being repeated by their youngest cousin who watched it awe!)

Willow doing a back bend on the swing!!

Ta-da!!

Good thing we have a big sandbox!! They were all in it...and working hard.

Did I mention how well they all played together!??

Meals were full of laughing and chatter.

It was precious to hear the conversations and the giggles.

Note to self: While everyone did love Tacos...it may not have been the best meal for such a large group in terms of clean up. Wriggley however, was very thankful and everyone pitched in to clean up.

A little kite flying.

A little movie watching.

(Chloe, Jared, Connor, Jake, Willow and Zak)

And a little rest for the little ones!

Paigey finally got her "someone" to sleep in her room with her.

(She's been sad lately that Jake & Con have "someone", Mommy & Daddy have a "someone," but she doesn't have a "someone" in her room. She LOVED having Macy share her room with her and she was already asking for her return the very night she left.

A little girl time fun...

More creative play and team work!

Two of the silliest doing what they do best!

All the younger ones gathered around while Chloe read Library books out loud to them. They were totally engaged and enamored by her and her stories. She was a gem!