weekend fun!

I think Juneau and Nova had their "Dream Weekend"! First of all i didn't have to work at all (well, except for a few minutes to make inpatient rounds). Secondly, we had friends come visit! We had initially planned to go to the Cripple Creek Ice Fest this weekend with our friends from Pho For Five, but due to the 8 inches of snow that was expected in Cripple Creek on Saturday, we had to make a slight adjustment to our plans. i don't think either of our minivans are really equipped for 8 inches of fresh snowfall! Juneau and Nova were thrilled when i told them Jackson, Shane and Finley would be coming to our house to play!

A picture of the girls on a lazy morning at home with daddy

juneau thorougly enjoying her Valentine's Day treat from the Matus cousins! Giant Marshmallow PopPop
Between the Pho for Five crew, and our crew, we had 2 one year olds, 2 two year olds, and a 3 year old! Let me tell you, those 5 kids know how to have some fun! We went from the upstairs playroom to the basement playroom, to decorating cookies, then back to the upstairs playroom then the downstairs playroom again! These kids played hard for 6 hours straight! Part of what works so well for our kids is that not only are they basically the exact same age, but they also have siblings that are the same interval age difference, so they all interact really, really well together.

Here you can see "the sissies" (as juneau calls them) decorating cookies together.

Nova is small for her age, and Fin is smaller than nova (and 6 weeks older!) so you can imagine she is just an itty-bit of a thing. but she is a firecracker! she has crazy personality like you've never seen :)"the bugs" - Shanebug and Junebug, decorating their cookies

Jackson found the most efficient way to eat his cookie was to just go for it - no hands needed

after all the other kids had bored of the cookie decorating, juneau was still traveling from plate to plate eating the leftover sprinkles with her spoon. ha!

One of the GREAT things about the play marathon was the girls were wiped out, and slept until.....drumroll please....7:15 the next morning! this is a new record, especially for a weekend, when they tend to move up their normal wakeup time from 6:15 to about 5:3o. We were soooo happy for the extra hour of sleep, and even an extra long nap today!

and finally, here is a picture of our little sweetie getting ready for bed tonight :)