The calm before the storm!

It's 7:00 pm and we have just finished dinner. I'm upstairs giving Myles a bath and Chris is downstairs cleaning up the kitchen from dinner. I get Myles out of the tub and as I'm getting him ready for bed I'm tickling his feet and he is laughing. He gets up and runs out of his bedroom, I am chasing him, growling like a bear behind him and he finds this funny and is laughing. The two older kids come upstairs and our house is filled with laughter, smiles, tickles and all the sounds that make my heart melt.

The kids are jumping on my bed and I'm being a bad Mom and laughing with them as they jump around and have fun together. I hollar at Chris to bring Adalyn and my camera upstairs as I want to try and capture this fun evening we are having. He comes upstairs and I put all the kids on my bed with their feet hanging off the side, cover them up with the blanket and attempt to get some more cute feet pictures (can you tell I love feet?).


After snapping some pictures I pull the covers off of them and begin to tickle them as they laugh and scream in protest! They run out of my room and into the loft where I manage to get them to all sit on the couch so I can torture them so more with my camera! They are good sports about it and let me take a gazillion (is that even a word?) pictures of them.


Then we rip the cushions off the couch and I spin them upside down and they are yelling at me to take some more pictures, funny pictures they tell me! I attempt again to capture this fun moment.



After this whole scene is over, Chris starts playing with Adalyn and she is laughing. This is the 1st time Chris has heard this beautiful sound from Adalyn and he is enjoying making her laugh.

After a few mintues of listening to her laugh, Chris takes a moment to relax on the couch with Adalyn and watch all the action!

The kids are playing nicely together. They are laughing and I sit down to watch them have fun together.

And then Raelyn takes a toy from Myles and the meltdowns begin. Myles is screaming, Raelyn is crying and Broedy is having a fit because Chris and I announce that it is now bedtime.


There is always calm before the storm:-)