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We had so much fun the first time having multiples we decided to do it all over again. Who would have thought after raising kids for 5 years (happy birthday jack and maggi today!) that we would do it all over again.

It wasn’t planned but we sure are excited. Who would have thought we would have 10! Mom is doing fine as you can see by these pictures:

So this is Daphne and she is our latest addition. She wandered up right next to our garage and camped out. We don’t know how long the nest was there before we found it, however she is sitting on 10 eggs right now. We are trying to leave her alone and let her carry to term now. She was so well hidden behind the hose cart that it took me shooting baskets outside to scare her right off the nest. She is literally camped out 1 foot from our garage door. The kids have had a blast checking in on her and hopefully we will have 10 new ducklings later this month. We will keep you posted.

In other goings on we got back from Chicago (new photos on the photo page) last weekend where we had the kids super birthday extravaganza. We had a lot of fun there and spent way too much money (as expected). Our kids are obsessed with escalators so we spent a major portion of our trip scouting out different escalators to ride. Even in our hotel we had to ride 1 floor up every time we were in the lobby and take the elevator from the 2nd floor so we could get an escalator in. Yes we had to stop on 2 on the way down as well. Other highlights (as if escalators aren’t enough) were:

• The Sears Tower
• The Lego Store
• The American Girl Store (to which Jack and I promptly left to go to The Apple Store and play Star Wars Legos)
• The Taxi ride ( started with The since the first 3 did) – few cabs were yellow though which disappointed.
• The World’s Best Children’s museum – no lie…the Chicago Children’s museum rulez. Had to pull me out. I think we could spend an entire trip to Chicago there.
• The Grandparents – We also got to spend some time with my parents going and coming from Chicago which is always a good thing.

The low points:

• The drive home on Sunday in the rain – or what I call 6 hours O’ fun.
• Jack saying “Another dinosaur! How many more do they have” at the Field Museum. He really just wanted to go back and build some legos.
• Scratched DVDS that don’t work when you rent them from Family Video.

We are just winding down from all the Birthday festivities so things will settle a bit. Tonight we celebrated the real birthday with presents and cake/ice cream. They got a whole mess of stuff so now I have to go put it all together. That is if I can get all toys out of the packaging first. I honestly think the toys have more cost in the tape, packaging and ties that bind the toy to the box than the actual toy itself.

Filed under: pk on May 20th, 2008