We absolutely adore our nieces and nephews. Especially those Hone children! This week, Stephen and I had an opportunity to have the kids stay at our house to allow Tiffany and Justin to celebrate their 7th wedding anniversary. That night also happened to be our big family Christmas party! They went all out this year. We had an amazing dinner then a program where all the little kids sang us songs and then put on a nativity. It was so cute. Santa Clause even made an appearance to bring all the great grandkids a special early Christmas present! Buddy the Elf made a guest appearance!
He was a great helper. I sure love that big guy :) Then all the adults did a gift exchange. It was very fun and we were very satisfied with our gifts. Then we loaded up the chillins and headed home to star. They were so cute; we gave them a tour to let them know where everything was and what not to touch and all that good stuff. Then we watched to polar express and had some hot chocolate and chicken nuggets!
The last thing we did before bed was show them where our room is again and told them the door would be open and if they needed us to knock on the door to wake us up. Sure enough… 6 a.m. rolls around and I hear a tiny little knock on our door and in the doorway is sweet little Cameron (5) with his blanky and the saddest look on his face and he says in his sweet little voice, “I had a bad dream” it was too sweet for me to tell him ‘its okay’ and to ‘go back to bed’ so instead I told him to come climb in bed with us. He was really good he hardly moved and went right to sleep. Then about an hour later started snoring really quite loud for a 5 year old! Then Jaxon(3) came to the door, without knocking, in a hurray shouting, “I need to go yuckies! I need to go yuckies!” poor little guy he was trying to get his onezy unzipped and couldn’t. So I got up quick as I could and helped him into the bathroom and unzipped him. Then I left and told him to let me know when he was finished. Well I went back to lay down and he came running back in buns naked and he says to me, “Sinee I want to sit down please” HAHA so I went back in with him and sat him on the toilet so he could go yuckies. A few minutes later he yells, “IM DONE! IM DOOOOOONNNNNNEEE!” and all it took was a long glance at my sweet husband and he went and took care of him. It was only when he was putting his jammies back on that he realized they were wet and Jaxon told him he tried really hard to hold it in but he had an accident when he was running up the stairs to our room. Oh dear sweet Jaxon.
So while I gave Jax a bath Stephen took Cameron and they woke up Kendall and made waffles. We ate breakfast and watched the snow fall outside our window then the kids wanted to bake some more so we made some homemade bread. They were such great little chefs! We then colored for a little bit and played a game called memory barn yard. After that we built a sweet fort in our living room!
Stephen had this great idea to put the sheet over the TV so the kids could watch a movie while we cleaned up breakfast! It was pretty awesome. They only stayed in there for a little bit but it was long enough to get our poor kitchen in order! It then came time to go home so we cleaned up our fort and packed up their things and took them back to mom and dad. Stephen said he learned a lot about how much you give up to be a parent. It was perfect because he is starting to agree with me on waiting longer before we have our own. But its true that having children and raising them is one of the most selfless things we will ever do. It takes all your time and energy..and free time? Forget about it. We are so lucky we will be fortunate enough to have BOTH sets of parents here and ready and willing to help us out when we need them. I really enjoyed the experience. I think the reason it was challenging was because we went from no kids to 3 kids, twin 5 year olds and a 3 year old. I know that when they’re my own and we get used to having them one at a time it will be much different. But I still don’t want it for a few more years! All those commercials when I was a kid really worked! Sex lasts a moment! Being a parent lasts your wholeeeee life!! I cant wait for the honor of being a mommy…. But then again, I can.
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