Stay Up All Night

I heard Abigail babbling away when I woke up this morning. I peeked in the guest room and Abbs was wide awake sitting on the bed, Angela was very tired. She groggily said, "This is the most comfortable bed with the most comfortable sheets." Poor Ange had a hard night. Abbs is getting FOUR molars. She cried a lot while they were here - SO UNUSUAL for that little girl. She was just miserable. Ange kept saying things like, "If I only knew she would be getting teeth when we planned this....." I told her if she was going to be staying up anyway, she might as well be playing games with us!

Anyway, sleep deprived Ange woke up and made French Toast. What a good hostess I am! It was her idea - I promise! While she was cooking, Ella wanted to ride the jeep. Then Abbs REALLY wanted a turn. Stockton took her around. It was so cute!

Abigal & Stockton

Ella

This picture cracks me up. It's like a parade. Lincoln was eating his breakfast, but didn't want to miss the fun. He followed them around while he was carrying his breakfast plate and eating away. Too bad the picture I took of the front view didn't turn out.

Lincoln, Stockton & Abbs, Ella & Jorja

I debated putting these next pictures up because all of the swimming mess in the background . . . but Abbs looks so cute and cuteness trumps messy.

Abbs & Stockton

I had to ditch my brothers this morning so I could take Jorja to a swim meet. I even had to wake up Matt because his car was blocking mine. I was disappointed about that because I thought he would be asleep until I got back . . . then I went and woke him up. Anyway, I haven't seen the final results yet, but I know Jorja took about 5 seconds off her freestyle time and 8 seconds off her butterfly. Awesome! Her goggles fell off while she was doing breast & butterfly. Jorja said, "My goggles don't like when I'm swimming two hand touch races."

Tonight we finally let our kids stay up all night. Last year we let them do this on the last day of school. They wanted to make it a tradition. We always had something going on that I wouldn't let them be grumpy for. We don't have any plans tomorrow, so we decided today was the day. I was not going to even attempt this . . . I'm still tired from playing games last night! Mike invited some people from work over and taught them Pirates. I wouldn't let Preston play 'Stay up all night'. He was upset, but I basically told him that anyone who wet their pants three times that day was not old enough to play 'stay up all night'. I did say it in a loving motherly way I'm sure.