Back to the Cottage!

A fun weekend at the cottage! Murray's parents opened the cottage earlier this month (or perhaps last month???) but we didn't get there til this past weekend. We waited for Sweetie's gymnastics class to be over on Saturday and then loaded up and hit the road. As an incentive to get them on board faster, we told them that if we were still home at noon, we'd eat there. If we were already on the road, they'd get McDonald's. Wow can those girls hustle when they want to! We were on the highway in under an hour which is basically a small miracle in this house!

We were the last to arrive but lucked out and still got a bed. Lucky for us, Crazy Uncle Andrew refuses to share a room with his sister and opted for the porch (closed in porch, he's not quite crazy enough to sleep outside...yet.). We got to room with Karen and Murray's got no qualms about nothing so we were set!

Checkers had a great weekend... Uncle Louis, not so much! pester, nip, follow, rinse and repeat. I don't know if the big guy slept a wink the whole time we were there. Checkers did get several time outs, which he used in order to try the same "loving" techniques on Martigan.

The girls were very excited to see Mr Bojangles. Sweetie was so looking forward to it that her stomach felt sickish she said. They're all very good with him and include him in their games and let him boss them around and play whatever he wants to play.

On Saturday evening, Uncle Andrew ran them through his own little Boot Camp and had them doing laps around the yard, crab walks, jumps, wheel barrow racing and screaming contests. All this activity got them ramped up really well and they had a hard time settling down to sleep. Obviously boot camp wasn't long enough! That night they were chattering away and I went up and told them that Mr. Bojangles was going to have to move out of the room if they didn't settle down. No one wanted that! so things quieted down quickly but it was still a late night.