Twiplets on the lake

It's been a while since we've all been together... the Melvin twins (whose mom I met through TPOMBA when I was still pregnant, and who were born only weeks before Alex and Simon) the "Twiplets" and us.

(forever ago, in the park in front of the house on central)

Vida's twins are a bit bigger now...

We met in the park recently for a picnic, and to celebrate Jeffrey and Justin's graduation from Grade 8! (I first met them as they were going into Kindergarten!!!)

A few of us had gotten together and chipped in for tickets to a track and field event at the Pan Am games this summer for the boys and their mother.  They were soooo excited when they opened the gift.  But even more excitement ensued when they discovered it was going to be just them and their mother:  "No triplets?" queried one of them in disbelief (Karen is taking care of the "little" boys while Vida takes her older two to the event).  When we told them that's right, just you guys, they responded with "YES!" and big smiles.  

I can only imagine how little "big boy time" these teenagers get in their tiny home with five boys!!!

While we celebrated the young men's milestone at the picnic table, the "little boys" played in the big, new playground next to our building; an intensive game of school, led by Joel (who gave his attentive triplet brothers and our twins a "music lesson") was unfolding...

It's never been an easy feat to capture everyone in the same frame, but we managed to corral three sets of twins, one set of triplets and an impostor (a friend of Karen's kids) into the same location for a few shots before everyone ran back off to play!