Thomas Family: St. Louis trip

Last week the girls and I went to St. Louis, MO to visit our great friends The Boyces. Kim and Nathan just had twin boys, Adam and Caleb. This is the 5th and 6th child for them. I went fully expecting to hold and feed babies while the older children jumped on the trampoline and played together. I wasn't let down! We had a great time. The boys are so sweet and such good babies. The rest of the kids were so much fun and they all played well together. They jumped on the trampoline a lot and loved it when the sprinkler was put under it.

The second day we were there Kim took us to Grant's Farm. It is more like a zoo though. It was super fun but man was it hot. It was 95 degrees outside! After the first hour of sweating I got used to it and it wasn't that bad in the shade. We saw lots of animals and lots of baby horses, which the kids loved. We also got to feed goats milk with bottles. While that seems so sweet and fun it was actually the most chaotic thing ever. Kim did not prepare me properly for this. I took Alexis, Audrey, Seth, and Katyia (I'm sorry, I can't remember how to spell her name!) into the goat pen. Audrey disappeared immediately. Two goats came forward and jumped up on Alexis' chest as we were trying to enter. Once I showed Alexis that she could be rough and just push them off her she was fine. But Seth and Katyia immediately freaked out and I had to push them into the goat pen because there was a long line behind me. I kept pushing the goats off of Seth and Katyia while they just screamed. Then I looked around and saw Audrey standing by herself crying. So I sent Alexis to help her sister, took the milk bottles and held them up so the stupid goats would stop jumping on us, and got Seth by one hand and commanded Katyia to grab my shirt and headed toward the exit. I made it to Audrey who was crying and told me her milk got taken and a goat bit her and that she "hates goats!" I finally managed to push all four kids out of the goat pen and took a big sigh of relief. It was actually quite funny and I wish I had a video camera to record it. It was seven minutes of complete chaos with kids screaming, crying, and goats butting each other and jumping all over me and the kids. After we got out of the pen we let the kids feed the goats from there and was MUCH more manageable. For the rest of the day Audrey kept telling me how much she hates goats. :)

Once the kids were in bed Kim and I indulged in a movie fest. We watched Patriot Games, Penelope, and Dan in Real Life. My favorite was Dan in real Life. It is hilarious! We also played Apples to Apples with Nathan.

I had so much fun! Thank you Nathan and Kim for having us! Especially for letting me spend time with your precious six week old boys. You are great friends!