Pizza Picnic, Parc André Citroen

Pizza Picnic, Parc André Citroen, originally uploaded by afoos.

Am I tired...it has literally been non-stop since the girls got here. Today, Louise went to the daycare in the morning, we picked her up at noon and we headed to see Ice Age 3 (the girls saw it in French while the kids and I saw it in English!) E stayed with Alice back at home, so I braved it with Louise and quite surprisingly she stayed put pretty much the whole movie. They key is to go during naptime- she was too tired to jump all over the seats. Gab, as always, stayed put. I did try to hit up a craft store right by the movie theatre since I don't make it to that side of town often and forget it, evidence of no naps was starting to show. Hellion was a very fitting word for that experience.

Came home and I just wanted to crash! Having 5 kids to take care of is a lot of work even though the girls are very autonomous, but still, it's the psychological pressure of having that many and having that many more dishes etc.... Plus, they are in town visiting, so we are doing a lot more than usual, especially when we got home and had only been home for 10 min. (meaning I had only gotten to sit down 10 min.) when Elodie says to me "What are we going to do now? Can we go to the pool, we're bored." I couldn't let the poor thing go home and tell her parents she was bored with her boring aunt and uncle who live in Paris, but I was also way too tired to take the herd to the pool, so we packed up the gang, stopped to get some pizzas and went to the park with the fountains, which is why even Alice is in her little swimsuit. Unfortunately, the fountains weren't running, but we had a lovely evening picnic and the kids played for a good hour in the park. We did have a couple of breakdowns from Louise- a very tired little girl, but with this many kids you just have to get out when the weather is as nice as it is (and trust me, you do not want to be in our apartment in this weather- it's hotter in here than outside!!!)

Man, I'm beat. I have a more interesting post started, but I'm too tired to think. We're having lots of fun, but I am going to be very happy to have some down time come Sunday, when E's mom is also going to take Gab for a couple days since he's out of school.