Three of a kind: 2 VS 1 on a vacation...... I was defeated!

Part I

The boys and I took a trip to go see my youngest sister (Justine) graduate. I had been very skeptical rather or not I could take the trip on, with two kids two and under. I decided it'd be best to get a non-stop flight into Milwaukee and then take a 2 1/2 hour drive to Stevens Point where my oldest sister (Lisa) lives. I couldn't imagine having a layover with these two but knew that I could handle the screams in a car. To my surprise they both were PERFECT (well as could be expected)! Ethan was in ahhhhh that he was sitting in a real plane. He even looked up at me with eyes that said, "hurry up and buckle me up." Aidan fell asleep before we took off. Thanks to Roger's cousin Kristen I had a portable DVD player to entertain Ethan. After the first hour and a half went by I finally had to put a movie in. I had packed the back pack (thanks to my Bestie Melissa--great idea by the way) full of goodies and they barely touched them. The car ride wasn't too bad. They became antsy and that's when the whining began......

We got to my sister Lisa's house and Ethan was over joyed with meeting her two dogs, Rufus and Emmy. He had turned into the two year old who could careless about the family and only focused on what he could do with the dogs. He would point to their body parts and name them and game/command he never does with me. I was excited just to hear him say the words and acknowledge he did indeed know them. Ethan also turned into a whining child. Ethan and Aidan had made a plan to whine every time I literally moved or so it seemed. I was unable to use the bathroom, shower, wash bottles, eat food, etc. without them whining. My family helped as much as the kids would let them. It was easier to distract Aidan then Ethan. It turned me into a high strung stress ball:( You ALWAYS want your kids on their best behavior, they must have know this because they were on the worse behavior I had ever seen! These two adorable boys became devil children:(

Ethan with his new best friend Rufus

My niece Alex with cranky pants Aidan

He's starting to get use to her or is it the fact he wanted to eat her necklace???

Aidan with Aunty Lisa

Since everyone but my BIL Hochey had to work or go to school we decided to put the boys in the stroller and walk down to my nephew Cam's outdoor school event.