The full reunion began on Thursday but since all of Taylor's siblings and their significant others were in, the party started Tuesday night for us. My boys wasted no time in claiming Mack as their plaything.
Thursday night we headed to the hotel where Isaac and Miles enjoyed playing in his pack and play. Arty and Esther brought my kids cute toys all the way from London. The hit was the play telephone they brought for Miles that talks when you push the buttons- pretty normal except that the voice is has a British accent. Totally hilarious coming from a kid toy.
And Ethan promptly got sick. This is a pattern we have started to really notice with Ethan. If he gets really tired from traveling or doing things for several days in a row, he will come down with the flu. Which was lovely in London when he threw up outside the temple. And again lovely when we sat down to the first dinner at the Woodbury reunion and he threw up as well. So upstairs we headed and he got to spend the rest of the night and next day napping, running to and from the bathroom, and watching cartoons. Poor guy was such a trooper and made it to the toilet or bucket every time. I normally wouldn't post that in a blog but believe me this is a MAJOR achievement from a mother's perspective.
While Ethan was suffering Isaac and Miles went with me to the kids activities where Isaac climbed through a humungus play fort, bounced and slid down bouncy slides and basically went crazy.
They spent both evenings in the fun kid room which made it really nice for the parents to be able to hang out and chat.
Taylor's great-grandparents started these reunions and left a fund to pay for everything. It's great to see everyone each 3 years and to meet so many of his cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. There were 5 generations of Woodbury's totally more than 130. And very cute to see so many generations playing with toys and doing Boondogle and fighting it out playing Hearts. Taylor wore himself out midnight bowling the first night, golfing all Friday, running the Hearts tournament Friday night that went til 1:30am, and with one final family movie together he declared us done with family reunions and done with drama. Too bad there was still LOTS of family events to come!
Thursday night we headed to the hotel where Isaac and Miles enjoyed playing in his pack and play. Arty and Esther brought my kids cute toys all the way from London. The hit was the play telephone they brought for Miles that talks when you push the buttons- pretty normal except that the voice is has a British accent. Totally hilarious coming from a kid toy.
And Ethan promptly got sick. This is a pattern we have started to really notice with Ethan. If he gets really tired from traveling or doing things for several days in a row, he will come down with the flu. Which was lovely in London when he threw up outside the temple. And again lovely when we sat down to the first dinner at the Woodbury reunion and he threw up as well. So upstairs we headed and he got to spend the rest of the night and next day napping, running to and from the bathroom, and watching cartoons. Poor guy was such a trooper and made it to the toilet or bucket every time. I normally wouldn't post that in a blog but believe me this is a MAJOR achievement from a mother's perspective.
While Ethan was suffering Isaac and Miles went with me to the kids activities where Isaac climbed through a humungus play fort, bounced and slid down bouncy slides and basically went crazy. 
They spent both evenings in the fun kid room which made it really nice for the parents to be able to hang out and chat.
Taylor's great-grandparents started these reunions and left a fund to pay for everything. It's great to see everyone each 3 years and to meet so many of his cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. There were 5 generations of Woodbury's totally more than 130. And very cute to see so many generations playing with toys and doing Boondogle and fighting it out playing Hearts. Taylor wore himself out midnight bowling the first night, golfing all Friday, running the Hearts tournament Friday night that went til 1:30am, and with one final family movie together he declared us done with family reunions and done with drama. Too bad there was still LOTS of family events to come! 
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