Busy Little Bodies

Over the weekend, Chad and I had a very busy 24 hours with our active nephews Miles and Quinn. They hadn't come to stay with us since last October, so they were definitely due for a visit to Uncle Chad and Aunt Kim's! They arrived at about 4:00 on Friday, at which time we took them to the new memorial playground at our church, which we hadn't yet had an excuse to visit. Despite the fact that it had been raining off and on for several days, the new playground has this awesome "mulch" made of shredded tires which lets the water drain through and keeps the ground completely mud free! It's really cool, and there's a lot of fun equipment as well.

After dinner and some bedtime stories for Quinton, we spent most of the rest of the evening reading Captain Underpants comics with Miles, which are really pretty entertaining.

Then next day we ate some breakfast, played with Quinn's new Thomas the Tank Engine set of Duplos, went to a different playground, came home and played with some toys where you create your own little creatures by putting random animal body parts together, went to McDonald's to eat (yuck!) so the boys could enjoy the playland there, drew pictures, played Battleship, went outside and blew bubbles, looked at online photo albums, played more with the Thomas train, read another edition of Captain Underpants, and finally loaded up their stuff to take them back to KC. Miles was tired enough to fall asleep on the car ride home, so hopefully that means he had a good time!

When our nephews visit, we try really hard to avoid ever turning on the television, much to Miles' dismay. We feel like any time they are mesmerized by the "idiot box" is time that they're not engaged with us, which kind of defeats the purpose of them visiting in the first place! While we try really hard to make their visits enjoyable, Miles really had his heart set on playing the XBox games and DVDs he'd brought, so he wasn't too happy with our "no TV" plan. It's hard to explain to some who's not quite 5 that we wanted him to enjoy time with US and not the TV!

We took some great pictures from one of the playgrounds so that we'd have some memories of our eventful weekend!