While Dad's Away...

Grandma and Aunts to the rescue! Will was invited to join a couple pals on a golf trip in Florida this week. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you ask!) the trip fell during the week so we had to call in reinforcement to keep the boys during the day while I am at work. Will's mom and sisters were more than happy to help, and now we are in the thick of a new adventure!

This marks the first time where we've had help for a whole day, and admittedly, it has been a little nerve-wracking! Not that we don't trust Maria, Cari, and Sue. We totally do. But watching 3 infants for an entire day is much different than helping out at night while we go to dinner. We've done our best to minimize the amount of extra chores that they need to do so all they have to worry about is enjoying the babies...but even then- it's a lot of work to care for all 3 kids at once. Hence the reason we require babysitting to be done in pairs. Cari is helping all three days that Will is gone while Maria is leaving tomorrow morning as soon as Sue arrives to relieve her.

We drove home (probably to the point of annoyance) the importance of keeping them on schedule, and have likely called or texted to check in on them too often. And of course, the ladies are doing a great job and the boys adore all the attention they're getting! As evidenced by the photos and video below, the kids are all happy as can be!

This is a good test for our first planned trip where we will BOTH be away from the boys for our annual anniversary weekend- but we have a couple months to prepare for that. And by we, I clearly mean ME. I'm looking forward to having time away with Will, but I'm still pretty anxious/sad to be leaving the boys!

Spying Checking in on the crew from work 

Smiles from Will

And from Griffin

And Cooper (though he was too busy playing to look at me)

We're thankful to have family nearby who are willing to help us in a pinch so that Will can have a well-deserved break from day-in, day-out daddy duty.