Visiting With Friends

This past week has been a very full one for my tiny trio. On Saturday, they had a big play date with some of our friends.

We had children over ranging in age from almost a year old, to about seven years old.

It was funny, because we have never had a play date while Daddy was at home.

Normally, I would not have thought that this would have made any difference at all.

For whatever reason, though, it made a huge difference in how my tiny trio behaved!

Whenever I tried to go outside to show the bigger kids how to get into the trampoline enclosure, Kaiden would absolutely lose himself and scream as if someone was hurting him.

If I went outside anyways, he just stood at the back door, with his tiny hands up on the glass, crying his baby boy eyes out for me.

But if Daddy came and picked him up, it suddenly would make everything better and those tears would mysteriously disappear, for a time.

At one point, we were all outside in the backyard. Some of us were on the trampoline, while others tried visiting on the back porch.

I was feeling adventurous, and had all three of the babies out on the trampoline, playing.

Daddy walked outside to visit with our friends on the patio, and Kian decided that he needed DADDY!

He made his way over to the netting and stood there all sad and pouty.

He was trying his very hardest to muster some real tears in an attempt to make his Daddy feel very bad about not holding him.

Of course these antics worked like a charm and in no time, Kian was being carried around by his Daddy.

Then Daddy tried to go inside with Kian ONLY, which caused a small uproar amongst his siblings.

Now, where ever Daddy went, all of the babies decided that they wanted to go, too.

It's not easy trying to calm two very sad toddlers down while trying to extract them from the trampoline enclosure, safely.

I did finally manage to get them inside and into their Daddy's presence, but then they noticed that he was still holding Kian.

This would NEVER do, so both Kaiden and Vivienne decided that screaming would be the best plan of attack to entice him to pick them up.

Meanwhile, the Mommies and I were trying to talk like big people, about big people things.

It got very, very interesting for a while there! We did manage to talk a tiny bit about things that did not concern babies, but not too much!

We decided to try again during the week sometime, in hopes that the babies would be more complacent without as many folks around, Daddy included!

All in all, the play date went well. Bregon made a few new friends, and we got to reunite with some old friends.

And maybe, just maybe, we will even get to talk about some big people topics next time!