Over Memorial Day weekend we went to Virginia Beach for our annual weekend of hanging out with our friends from college. Moses did amazingly well in the car, only crying when hungry. Having just one baby makes road trips so much easier. Not only is Moses an efficient nurser, there is only one of him! Moses nurses for 10 minutes and he's done, whereas the twins used to take their sweet time nursing 30 minutes each, and since tandem nursing in the front seat of the car was basically impossible, every pit stop would be at least an hour long. I know I'm beginning to sound like a broken record, but wow I cannot emphasize enough how much easier it is to only have one baby instead of twins!
Anyway, we had a great time visiting our friends and their growing families. In attendance were 5 little boys ages 3 and under! Caleb and Joshua quickly befriended 14-month-old Taylor Starr and found great satisfaction in bossing him--instead of each other--around for a change. While Taylor couldn't yet talk back to them, his cute (cute to everyone but his mom!) high-pitched squeals put them in their place! The boys lavished affection on adorably chubby 7-month-old Elijah Butt whenever they got a chance, which was rare since he spent a good chunk of the day slumbering. It never occurs to me how little our boys sleep until we spend time with other people's kids! Our friends' sleep schedules rubbed off on us a little and we even managed to get the boys in bed before 10 pm one night. We were hoping that we'd be able to maintain this "early" bedtime, but alas this evening Moses didn't fall asleep until 11:45 and the twins shortly thereafter. Anyway, Caleb and Joshua had a blast skinny dipping in the Hubbards' pool, begging "Mommy give me a huuuug!" to trick me into swimming with them, recruiting various "uncles" to take them on walks along the pier to go see the crabs, and searching for shells on the beach while being chased by the waves. We even convinced Caleb to pee while standing in the sand on the beach, which will hopefully pave the way to him peeing while standing at the toilet, too. When we got home I asked if he wanted to pee standing up, like at the beach. "Oh-kay!" he shouted happily. He was pretty upset when he realized we weren't actually going back to the beach at that very moment. Over two weeks later, they are still asking to go to back to the beach at least once a day.
Courtney gives a more comprehensive report of our weekend's activities on her blog, so I'll just encourage you to read it here. We are so grateful to Courtney and her parents for generously hosting us all for yet another year!
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