The first is that the twins are a great age to hit a theme/amusement park. The second, and most important, reason is that Kristin's mom really wanted to take the twins to Disneyland. As a single, working mother, she somehow managed to take Kristin and her brother several times as kids. Kristin freely talks about how these were some of favorite childhood memories (and might be why she went to grad school within driving distance to Anaheim ;))
Unfortunately, Ruth never got the chance to take the twins, so we promised ourselves that we would get them there sooner rather than later in honor of their grandmother who couldn't. With Stella's arrival last year, we had to skip over 2014. Hence, here we are.
Kristin and the twins get back tomorrow and -- knock on wood -- things have been pretty good. There have been some incidents. See Stella below.
(Lest you think I'm a horrible parent, she actually wasn't really that upset in this picture. Her hair was just crazy post-bath and she was being funny. If it were a real tantrum, I generally don't whip out the phone.)
Truthfully, I've had quite a bit of help over these five days. Our good friends checked in with me multiple times and even brought me sushi for dinner last night. Plus, our mother's helper came yesterday and will come again today to give me a chance to get to the gym and run some errands.
As I could have predicted, this experience makes me appreciate having our whole family around a majority of the time -- and that includes two adults who are generally here! It makes the crucial, er, I mean, small things like runs to Starbucks much more manageable. But just to prove we had a good time, here are a few pics from the past several days.
