Sleepover for Five!

Our friends, the Kapics, came from Sacramento to SF over Memorial Day weekend for a little vacation.  Danny and Emily had an anniversary party to go to that Saturday evening so she email ahead of time asking about a babysitter to watch their their 4 year old triplets in their hotel room.  Young and I knew it was too fun of an opportunity to pass up so we volunteered to watch the triplets as well as have them spend the night...giving Danny and Emily and much needed restful evening together.   Being that all children are less than three weeks apart in age, we knew it would be a blast for Timo and Cameron, as well as for Fletch, Baily and Parker!

They showed up and the Fletcher and Timo immediately started bonding over their love of balls/sports/athletics.  A golf game quickly transpired and Young and I realized we needed to set up "rules" because 5 golf clubs and 5 balls were flying all around the house!

At dinner time I remembered why we have the rule "no toys at the table."  Fletcher had all the kids in hysterics with his Happy Feet dancing.  It was a whole lots of laughing.  Very little eating.

After supper Parker and Baily explored all of the twins' toys, including the rocket ship!  Timo and Flether continued games with balls...baseball, golf, golf baseball, basketball. 

Cameron wanted to color and Baily joined in...Baily coloring a princess and Cameron a race car!  Then Parker joined and eventually Timo and Fletcher gave up their games....soon all were coloring and comparing how well each was staying in the lines.  It was so fun hearing all the conversations going on between everyone. So funny hearing Baily relate to her brothers much the same way Cameron talks to Timo.

 

The triples fit right in and knew the whole bedtime drill.  Having one small sink was no problem for them...they all managed to fit around it at the same time.  You can tell being multiples, they learn how to adapt quickly!

We got all the sleeping bags laid out, everyone in jammies and settled for bedtime story.  Per our bedtime routine, Young reads stories,  does prayers, and always give Timo and Cameron a horse back ride to their beds....Fletcher and Baily had to have a back ride too!

All tucked in and sleeping tight...don't let these peaceful  pictures fool you...it took about 1 1/2 hours to get to this point!  But is was totally worth it...everyone had so much fun.  I'm really glad we were able to have Fletcher, Baily and Parker over.  Believe it or not, everyone got along, no disagreements, no tears...just lots of compromising, laughing and giggles coming for 5 four year olds.  Timo and Cameron and still talking about it and we're planning our next trip up to Sacramento to see them!!