Puzeys

We had an adventure this month! Olivia and Owen and I packed up for almost a week and headed up to the Puzeys house to watch the kids while Cheryl and Doug took a trip to Washington. We had a blast. It was a LOT of work wrangling six kids on my own, but here are some of the trip highlights:
While doing homework, someone tooted and each kid blamed the kid younger than him. Ha ha. It was Owen.
Zac read Owen the funnies in the Sunday paper and then had to explain every part of the humor to him. Each time he would explain it and say, “get it?” Owen would say, “No.” So cute to hear Zac try to explain the jokes to Owen.
The kids played together REALLY well and got along wonderfully (tender mercy). :)
Olivia is not a champ at finishing her dinner, since it takes her a lot longer than anyone else. Kate fed Olivia after she was done and she used all the best tactics: airplane, choo-choo train and car. All at Olivia’s very specific requests.
We were able to play outside in the Puzey’s super fun backyard! When we got home Owen told me he wants a new house (not an old one), with stairs, and a playhouse in the back yard. Those are my marching orders from my 4 year old. :) Working on it.
Morgan and Carter were amazingly helpful and always pitched in to help me work.
Zac wanted to play tic-tac-toe with Olivia during church and drew the little board. Then he told Olivia that she is X and to put an X wherever she wanted. She stared. He then handed her the pen and she stared. Then he saw he needed to lay some groundwork for her and wrote out the entire alphabet (upper and lower case) and showed her each letter and stopped at O and X for emphasis. Then he drew some Xs and Os with dashed lines for her to trace the letters. He worked so hard on that game of tic-tac-toe. It was so cute.
Morgan and her friend doing their hair and make up Lady GaGa style.