weekend recap...a photo shoot kinda weekend

i got a call friday night from the mother of 2 little girls that my girls used to go to daycare with - they're the same ages as mine & the 4 of them have the best of friends for years....unfortunately tho, they go to a different school, so the girls don't see each other very often....she said she knew it was last minute, but wondered if i could bring the girls by the next day for a play date on their horse farm....she was inviting 2 other girls that also ran with our crew back in the day (they all attended the same daycare before starting school) & wanted them to all hang out there for the afternoon...SIX girls between the ages of 4 and 6 - for FOUR HOURS?!

hey, who am i to judge? ~lol~

we didn't have any plans made for saturday, and it just so happened that she wanted the girls dropped off around the same time that i had to deliver this cake....so, the girls were gone for a good part of the day, jaden was consumed with either his 4 kids tv or some drawing for the better part of the morning

saturday was strangely quiet

when it was time to go pick up the girls, jaden said...
"maybe we shouldn't go get the girls ma. maybe we can be a family 3."
~lol~ feeling the love jaden, feeling the love! ~lol~

the girls were wiped out when they got home! they laid down for a nap & i finally had to wake them up 2 hours later! we spent the rest of the evening inside - it was rainy & cold all day....we played some board games together, made homemade pizza for dinner & then the girls decided to dress up....they came downstairs & asked that i take their picture

next thing i knew, we were having a photo shoot....and i swear, i never ask them to pose - they come up with all this on their own! what can i say? they're nuts! :0)

later, the girls found a new cool toy...

~lol~
they sat & drew all over this cut up box for about an hour....then toted it up to their room....i caught them laying down & reading inside of it the next morning too!

maybe i should have empty boxes lying around more often! ;0)

while daddy cooked breakfast on Sunday, the girls finally got to decorate the purses that my friend Shanna sent them....gab's whistling while she waits

jaden's also been working with the book he got from Javi - how to draw monsters, dragons & other mystical creatures ;0)


later, they were outside playing and asked me to come look at how tall they are!
they had created their own way of measuring each other...


i asked them to gather together for a pic....what started out like this

quickly turned into this

see? they're nuts, i tell ya!
~lol~

sunday evening, we attended a birthday party for our friend Xavier....the kids had a blast!

we ended the evening with children's choir rehearsal....i burned a cd of the Christmas program that they're working on....we listen to it just about every time the kids r in the van with me....and they really enjoy it - they ask to hear it over & over again....and since the girls can't read yet (well, gabby is reading - but not fast enough to keep up with the program), it's really helping them with learning the songs & their parts - it's a 37 minute program, so that's a lot of words for their little brains to remember

overall, we had another chill weekend - not too productive....laid back & fun - just the way we like it! ;0)