The Franks Family: Walking...how hard can it be?

So my dear friend, Allison, and I have decided we want to walk together a few times a week. For one, we want to lose this baby weight, and two, we want to get out of the house with the kids. Sometimes we just feel stir crazy and some fresh air really helps. Well, since we planned these walks, it's only happened twice and one of those times, it almost didn't. Seriously, I had no idea it would be so difficult to go for a little walk. Let me explain...last week when we went on our first walk, Allsion was up in the middle of the night with her oldest, Dominic and I was up with Holden and his tummy issues. She thought Dominic might sleep in and therefore said we might not be able to go until later than we had planned. I said no problem because Holden was up with his tummy ache and didn't go back to sleep until 7:00. Dominic didn't end up sleeping in and they were ready to go by 8:00, but Holden decided to sleep until 9:30! He only does that when I have something to do. I changed him and then fed him and then sure enough he had a blowout so I changed him again. We got over to Allison's around 10:15 and Dominic wasn't ready to go. He wanted to play and wouldn't let Allison change his diaper. Then he got hungry. Brayden had been asleep and then woke up and he was a little fussy. Allison fed him a little but he was still upset so she tried burping him a bit. We finally got all the kids loaded up in the strollers and out the door by 10:45 (we wanted to go at 7:30 or 8:00)! It was so hot and by this time Holden was now starting to fuss. I took him out of his stroller and put him in the front carrier and he was much happier. He even took a little cat nap in it. But it's not the easiest thing to carry him in that while pushing the stroller. Meanwhile, Dominic fell asleep in the stroller, and he didn't go back down when we got home, so no nice afternoon nap for him. And Brayden got upset right at the end of the walk, so Allison took him out and carried him the last little bit, which was not easy to do while pushing Dominic. By the time we made it home, we were laughing because it was just too funny. We weren't able to go the rest of the week because both Brayden and Holden had Dr.'s appointments and Adi had a weird schedule on Thursday. But we did go again yesterday. Even though Holden woke up super early from his tummy and went to back to bed at 7 only to sleep until 9 again, this time was still much better than the first. Dominic was excited to go this time and Brayden was a trooper. Holden got a little fussy and the wind didn't help, but he eventually fell asleep in the stroller and all was good. We even got to go a bit longer this time! Hopefully we will be able to go more next week.

Here's little Brayden before the walk.