Surrogate Family Dinner!

Since all the husbands are home at once, Lisa decided we needed to do a dinner together before everyone dispersed again! For Lisa's baby shower, I made all the kids shirts with their initials on them. Markus finally fits in his so we decided to do a little photo shoot!Can you tell who's toes belong to who?!?







Joli took off down the alley and turned back around and declared "Now don't you tell my father!"


Charlotte didn't want to participate in any more pictures. She was quite miserable.







Piggy toes!
We finally sat all five kids down... much to Charlottes dismay.
We released the prisoners and let them go play in the yard. They were much happier... well Charlotte was, the other kids didn't seem to care! Syrus pushed Charlotte back and forth in the wagon.
After dinner Chris made a fire and we had smores! Abby stole some Markus time!
Lilly liked Markus. Abby asked her where the baby was and she proceeded to poke poor Markus in the nose! Oh well!
We had such a fun night! If only Charlotte's molars would come in and she would stop being a crab we would be all set. Wishful thinking!

July 3rd Concert!

This morning Chris took Charlotte to the 4th of July parade while I was at my photography course. I was pretty bummed to miss it! But this afternoon we went to the concert in the park and had a great time! Charlotte didn't want to sit in her stroller, she wanted to walk! She really likes when we swing her while we are walking!Saying hi to Mama!
Once we got to the park she bee-lined it for the playground. She actually went on the play structure for about 5 minutes! It's an improvement!
The concert started and it was an awesome swing band! There were so many people dancing! Charlotte loved dancing with Daddy!





She wavered between being happy and grumpy. The joys of having a toddler!


She just really wanted her Mama, so Chris took the camera and snapped a few pictures while we were dancing!
Don't get me wrong... I love love love Charlotte kisses... they have just been extremely drool-y lately!!!
Hope everyone is having a great 4th of July weekend!

Summer's Past

On Wednesday we took the kids out to Summer's Past since we hadn't been in a while. A couple of my friends from Stroller Strides joined us too! Here are the kids chasing after Syrus' car in the field!
Charlotte snuggled the best she could with Lisa! If you look closely she is playing with Markus' toes!
We brought tutu's for the little girls to wear and take pictures!
Charlotte, Anna and Lily checking out the bunnies in their tutus!
Waving to the Bunnies...
The playhouse was a big hit with the older kids. I think Charlotte just wanted to go in because Lilly was in there!
Charlotte and Anna loved kissing each other!


Syrus found a wagon and Lilly and Joli loved pulling it. Charlotte was just along for the ride!



Sweet baby Markus was so good!
Charlotte was very intrigued!
She helped push Markus in the wagon too!
I have a ton more pictures and had trouble picking this many... I think my original batch for the blog has 39 pictures!!!