LaMarche cousins visited again

This week I've barely had a minute to sit on the computer. Josh is traveling for work, so Carrie came to visit for a few days, Monday through tomorrow. Its crazy around here! Monday night they got here around 6:30 and I had creamy chicken and wild rice soup ready on the stove - I had gotten Panera bread bowls ahead of time, so I served that up in the bread bowls - yum! Austin and Renee are sharing Calvin's room and Calvin is sleeping in a pack and play in my closet. He's been comfy and slept well there so its working great! Austin and Violet play really well together. They're working on taking turns with everything and doing pretty well. So far anyway. There are definitely spats when either of them think the other is doing something wrong, but hey, they're both 3. We realized that this is one of the short times in their lives when our kids are both technically 1 and 3 years of age. Violet just turned 3, Austin will be 4 soon. Calvin just turned 1, Renee will be 2 very soon. They're all about exactly 9 months apart. Tuesday we took the kids to the rec center for indoor park from 10:30-12. It was my first time there and I don't know why I haven't gone earlier - the kids had SO much fun! One 1/2 of the gym was full of ride-on toys, little cars, and scooters. The other 1/2 of the gym had climb-on toys, play castles, a little baby rollercoaster-car type of thing, horsie, big blocks, etc. They got all pooped out and we brought them home, fed them lunch, and got them down for naps. Even though it was a crazy morning I'm glad we did it. Carrie and I took advantage of the fact that Dave was home working, so we took off to do some shopping while he stayed home while the kids were sleeping. We went to the mall, I returned some stuff, got some new work out shoes, got some shirts, etc. Violet and Austin love to play the song "I like to move it move it" from the movie Madagascar over and over and over and dance. The "thing" to do is push play to start the song over. They came up with rolling their bodies on the big exercise ball off the couch and doing a somersault onto the floor and took turns doing that. We took the kids with us to my Bible study this morning and from what I heard, they all did great in the child care area. We packed a lunch and ate there since its always a tough time to bring them home all hungry and fix something fast to eat. We have plans to go to work out tomorrow morning and then take them to indoor park again until lunch time.