Alice likes her cousins in theory and she talks about them a lot, but when they're around each other they don't really know how to play together. Kaelyn likes to be in charge, and sometimes Alice will follow her lead, but sometimes she does her own thing. Braeden seemed a bit perturbed by Alice and Simon, and tattled on them a lot. It's always fun for me to see the kids interact, no matter what they do. Simon played a bit, but mostly walked around or tried to climb up the stairs.
Again, it was so chaotic that I barely had the presence of mind to take pictures. By bedtime it occurred to me, so what you're seeing here is the attempted "sleepover." We normally sleep in the twins' room with both of our kids, but this time we tried having Alice and Braeden sleep in Kaelyn's room. They all appeared OK with it, until we went downstairs and then heard little feet running around for an hour or two. Eventually Alice came downstairs, and Zac decided to just put her in our room again so she could get some sleep. We're not sure who the ringleader of the insurrection was, but my guess is that it was Kaelyn, and then Alice realized she too could get out of bed, and so she just followed along.
We tried to do a group photo of the kids the next morning, and took a gazillion photos. This was the best one.
