Kids' arrival!

So the kids finally got here! Things went great at first until we realized that there weren't enough beds for girls. So after some super hectic (for others) moving of people around and switching bedrooms, we finally got everything worked out. Fine from a parental perspective I think which is the important part. Had opening activities then dinner with our families. I'm on the Braves (our families are 5 different baseball teams) and have 10 kids. They seem decent. One boy is only 12 and speaks like no English at all hardly. And there are 4 girls who talk in French incessantly. Like I'd interrupt them to ask a question or talk to them, they'd answer it, and go back to their French conversation. And it's annoying and quite difficult acting like I don't know waht they're takling about when they're saying something, asking for clarification, talking about me, etc. But it's all cool. There's a girl in the group, though, who is really good at English since she lived in London and NY for 2 yrs (during 9/11 in fact) with her dad's job. But kids seem nice and hopefully it'll all work out if we can just separate those girls.... Had a campfire which was fun w/ various stations and smores which were yummy, and then bedtime which is quite an ordeal having 50 kids brush their teeth and change clothes (in the bathroom since they wouldn't change in their rooms for whatever reason) in 2 bathrooms. Then get calmed and settled. But it all worked out surprisingly quickly so yay! Off to bed for tomorrow! Yay!