Pure chaos

Last night, we experienced the true definition of the word "chaos" when we offered to babysit for some church friends. As parents of 5 kids under the age of 8, they truly needed a night out. So, we let them take advantage of a Parents Night that was being offered at church for kids age 4 and up by offering to sit for their almost 3-year-old son and 1-1/2 year old twin girls at the same time. Their little ones were great - they had a lot of fun trying out all the new toys at our house.





Elizabeth struggled with sharing her toys at first, but she got a lot better by the end of the night and enjoyed showing the "babies" how to be a "big girl." Of course, she took every opportunity she had to steal some of her newly remembered toys away and play with them all by herself:



And, the most hilarious point of the evening (at least in my opinion) was seeing David's face after he took their just-potty-trained boy in to use the bathroom - then had to clean the entire room afterwards. I think he's very glad he has a girl now - they're a lot less messy!

We were feeling pretty proud of ourselves for handling all of the kids for a few hours, until we realized our friends deal with that chaos all the time, every single day - with 2 more older kids added into the equation! I think we'll need to volunteer to help them out again very soon.