To Many Boys!

Tonight I babysat for an event at church. I watched five boys. It was only supposed to be three boys and one girl but some how I ended up getting five boys. And I must say it was a blast! Two of the boys were 3 years old, one was almost 6, and the other two were twins and they were 7.
They had lots of fun but as I will put it, I took a beating. I gave piggy back rides, played airplanes and G.I. Joe's, even had to use first aid on a bloody toe, and so much more...

I had found a really cool octopus that each of it's tentacles made noise. I would squeeze them all together, to me they sounded like a train, so I squeezed them twice and then would say "Choo Choo!" Some of the boys gave me weird looks and some thought I was funny. Then to one boy, that little octopus turned into a bunch of ice creams and would occasionally offer me one.
Later, I had a 3 year old on one foot and a 6 year old on the other, it was hard to walk, took a lot of strength to move just an inch.

Then I made a clever little train car that they all wanted to take turns riding. I had two different sized buckets, one could hold 3 of the kids the other could hold 2. Anyway, I tied them together with a purse and had the older kids in the bigger bucket hold onto the strap. It worked like a charm, they loved it. I pulled them several times in that.

Afterwards, I was walking out the same time as one of the little 3 year olds and his mom and grandmother. He comes running after me saying, "Wait! Wait!" I bend down expecting a hug but instead he says, "I want to kiss you." and he kisses me on the cheek. He was so cute! Then he runs to back to his grandma and says, "I'm riding with grandma!" I told him that sounded like fun!