The babies did well last night. They woke up around 3:00 and were fed and then put back to sleep. They woke up again shortly after 6:00 and wouldn't go back to sleep. So we brought them downstairs and gave them some breakfast. Calvin and Brayden woke up shortly thereafter. Erin fed the babies and got Calvin and Brayden's breakfast ready while I went up to get them out of bed.
After breakfast we played for a while. Then I gave Calvin and Brayden a bath. It's always a struggle to get them out of the bath. Brayden learned that he can close the drain after dada opens it. So he thought it was fun to close the drain and then open it again and again. Eventually I just grabbed Calvin and got him dried off and his clothes on. By the time I was done with him Brayden was ready to get out. All the water had been out of the tub for about five to ten minutes so you would think they would start to get cold and want to get out. But, they seem to have a lot of fun in the tub. After giving them a bath I took a shower.
We got everyone loaded up in the minivan and headed over to Erin's parents for Thanksgiving. This is the first time I had been to there house in quite some time (perhaps since before the babies were born). Everyone always came over to our house since it's so difficult for us to get out.
We decided to take the Colonial Parkway to their house instead of the interstate. I thought the change in scenery would be good. The boys really liked going under the bridges. There is a short tunnel as well that they rather enjoyed.
The boys seemed to really enjoy themselves at grammie and pappaps. They had a wooden train set that the boys played with for a long time. They also jumped on a small trampoline for a while. The trampoline has a bar to hold onto so it was fairly safe. Calvin and Brayden really like the breakfast bread with icing that my mother-in-law makes. I wasn't sure if they would want any so I gave each of them a bite. After one bite they wanted more and more. They couldn't get enough until it was all gone.
Carter is the only one that actually napped. Aubrey may have napped for a short while, but if she did it was only for thirty minutes or so. We put Calvin and Brayden down, but they just kept laughing and talking to each other and never went to sleep.
Dinner was great. My mother-in-law is a really good cook so it's always nice to eat some of her cooking. Calvin was enjoying it too. He ate a bunch of turkey and brocolli caserole. Brayden didn't eat much, but he did have a little. I think I grossed out my sister-in-laws by digging in Calvin's nose to get some dried up boogers out. Oh well, I figured once you have kids stuff like that doesn't bother you anymore.
The boys played with my mother-in-laws iPad. There were a few games on there that they were really enjoying. Maybe one of these days we'll get a Kindle Fire. I know that the Kindle Fire is comparable to the iPad and quite a bit cheaper. Apparently Amazon is actually selling them at a loss thinking that they will get more sales through the website with the Kindle since most products are linked to Amazon's website. We'll wait on getting it though since we would like for the kids to play with toys instead of electronics for as long as they can.
We thought we were going to run out of diapers. We always bring way more than we think we're going to need, but everyone kept pooping so we went through a lot of diapers. We ended up having one each for the older boys and only one between Carter and Aubrey left when we headed home.
We left sometime after 5:00. Calvin and Brayden were both asleep in the car within a few minutes of leaving. We took the Parkway home again. It took about thirty minutes to get home which is about the same time it would take if we used the interstate. The interstate may be a few minutes faster, but you always worry about accidents and heavy traffic slowing you down. There was almost no traffic on the Parkway.
We got home and Brayden woke up when we opened the car doors. He immediately started fussing. We got him inside first and Erin changed him into his jammies. Then I got Calvin in and then the babies. After bringing the babies in I brought Brayden up to bed. By the time I was done with Brayden Calvin had been changed so up to bed he went. Calvin wanted something from the pantry, but I didn't let him go over to the pantry before putting him in bed. Instead when I put him in bed he started screaming. I asked him what he wanted and he wouldn't say. So I asked if he wanted M&Ms and he said yes. Then Brayden said he wanted "manis" which means muffins. I got them each their order and then they were happy. I read one story and then let them fall asleep. They only fussed for a minute after I left. I'm sure they were so tired that they wanted to sleep. I think they got in bed sometime around 6:00 which is about an hour earlier than their normal bedtime.
We fed Aubrey and Carter and got them changed. Aubrey went down without a problem. Carter on the other hand wasn't too keen on going to bed just yet. Since he had a few hour nap he wanted to stay up. We eventually got him to sleep so we were able to relax. Of course before relaxing we had to clean up the Family Room.
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