Come Over To Holly's House!

A few weeks ago we hosted a play date at our house. It was so much fun. There were 8 babies in attendance which was quite a large group but with the living room and Holly's bedroom it worked out great. When someone was getting a little overwhelmed or a little rambunctious there Mommy would take them into Holly's Room for some quiet play and all would be well.Here is Tristan sitting in a ring of beads nibbling on one of Holly's toys. So cute. He is getting big so fast and starting to cruise around already. Except for Chloe and Tristan, Holly was the youngest in attendance and everyone was very mobile.And here is our little host dumping out her toys. We had the cleaners scheduled to come the day before the play date which was really nice when your about to have such a large group over.As you can see it took them no time at all to run like tornadoes through the House. Here is Joshua playing with a shaker and Holly is Playing with Isabella and Emma Rose in the back there.The older girls were so well behaved and played really well with the younger babies. It was amazing how Holly was interacting with them, they were truly playing with each other and the older girls were even showing Holly how some of the more sophisticated toys work.Here is Maya sitting in the eye of the storm. It actually isn't that bad yet, and Mommy learned from this play date. As the kids would hold up the buckets, shakers, beads, or eggs, there Mommies would open the container for them and out everything would go. A week later we had another playdate with even more babies and I learned to put the blocks, and Legos and such away, its not like there aren't plenty of other toys to be played with.Here are Thatcher, Chloe, and Joshua happily playing. It was really nice that a lot of the babies knew each other. I think that made a big difference. maya looks so cute sitting in Holly's little chair.Here are the two sisters, Isabella and Emily Rose, and there mom Jennifer. They actually just moved here from Washington DC less then 7 days ago. I am pretty amazed she was ready to bring the girls out for a play date so soon.We really enjoy hosting, and while I joke about the hurricane, it actually isn't too hard to clean up the toys once all the little devils head home. Holly loves sharing her toys and flitting from person to person staying in the middle of all the action.