A Week with the Webb Kids

My sister Steph and her husband went on a super fun 10 year anniversary trip to Aruba! They flew out of Houston, so we were lucky enough to have their kids from Monday (May 30th) night to Saturday (June 4th). Eva and Brynlee were inseparable, (Bryn pretty much worships Eva, who is 2 years older) and Ty and Leighton hung out the whole time, and Dean and Madi are great friends too. It was lots of fun to have them here and the kids enjoyed having a constant playmate. That first Tuesday it was perfect weather and the kids were swimming all day long. I was thinking how glorious the whole week would be and I would just be sitting on the side reading books and relaxing. Only the rest of the week it rained pretty much nonstop. That really blew up all of our plans, but they still managed to find a lot to do to keep them busy and happy. I was so impressed with these kids and made jokes to Steph about how our kids are such homeschoolers. They would research facts about animals and write little reports on them with pictures, etc. The girls wrote stories and the boys studied birds, snakes and trees of Southeast Texas. They wrote speeches and rules and ran for President of the house. We held a little debate and they all voted. They choreographed a dance and just really had a great time. We love cousins!!!

 They made these little creatures and then took pictures of each other with them. As long as we kept a lot of paper and craft supplies handy, these two were happy!

Dean is a great little reader, and he would help Madi whenever she got stuck on a word.

 One night we let them stay up later so they could go outside and catch some critters. They all come out when the sun goes down. They caught a couple frogs and a few lizards and got several mosquito bites too ;).

 Eva and Brynlee made a yummy dessert one day too. I thought this picture was pretty accurate. All the boys teasing the girls.

 Pancake breakfast. We got out lots of different toppings and they took time to create funny faces before eating each pancake.

Sometimes I just let them all go play out in the rain and dealt with the wet clothes afterwards because they were going so stir crazy. Below, Bryn caught another frog.

 They also spent hours catching tadpoles. Thanks to all the rain we had a pretty good pond in front of our house for them to fish in.

I drove them back to Houston on Saturday night and got to say Hi to Steph and Andrew for a few minutes before heading to the temple that night. It was a great week and the kids all had a cousin hangover the next week. :) Come back again Webbs!!