It’s been awhile since my brother and sister-in-law have gone away for a week and let me help keep my nieces.
They left early Sunday morning for Maui, Hawaii (let’s try not to be jealous).
They brought the 2 little girls to my mom’s house on Saturday night to stay with us. Mom took Mon & Tues off of work and I took the rest of the week off to help out.
The Bean is 4 and The Baby is 2 and I have to say these are my absolute favorite ages. Everything out of the Bean’s mouth is hilarious or cute or sassy. And The Baby has just started to really and truly talk in the last few months. She’s now at that stage where she will just come out and say “I love you” and “I’m sleepy”. She calls her backpack her “dack-a-dack” and her pajamas “hammies”.
They both are just precious.
So, yesterday was our first day together. We watched some shows, played play-doh, Memory and Jenga (they both love it). We went to the mall to play in the new play place (it was closed), to ride the carousel (also closed) and ride the little rides that cost $0.75 each to ride (where the change machine was broken). Fail
So we went shopping instead. The Bean is pretty fashionable and definitely has her own opinions on what she will wear. She naturally found a bunch of clothes she loved. Thankfully she settled for a new shirt and some new pajamas. The Baby just wanted whatever her sister wanted. However after we paid the Baby made sure she had her own Jammie’s in her own shopping bag, thank you very much!!
We were way early to meet our friends for lunch so we killed some time at the pet store and then headed to Chik-Fil-A to meet our friends for a play date. With every other toddler in town … They love the playground there and only the promise of cookie making would work to get them to leave!!
We headed home where the Baby fell promptly asleep like the angel baby she is and the Bean and I made Easter egg cookies / the premade ones mind you!! She helped me decorate them with blue & yellow icing and every sprinkle we could find!! This is one of my most favorite auntie activities!! And it’s so much fun when they are old enough to put their own sprinkles on but still young enough to want to dump the whole bottle on 1 cookie!
While the cookies were baking we managed to put a whole 100 piece puzzle together. She’s a genius for sure
Thankfully Nana came home on time from work to help us out for the rest of the night!!!
This morning we went adventuring to Chuck E Cheese and it’s so much fun now that the Bean is old enough to do the games by herself and keep up with her tokens!!! Of course $20 in tokens only gets you a box of nerds and some fun dip at the end of your visit but it’s the fun that counts. Right??
Then we ate a quick lunch and loaded up the car and headed an hour north to meet up with the big sisters. A busy morning + a big lunch + a car ride = nieces unable to resist falling asleep on the drive. Even the dog was lulled asleep!!
We reunited with the Bear (now 9) and the Bug (now 7), had dinner with their cousins and then came home for showers and math homework and bedtime!!
Listen I adore my nieces but bedtime wears me out.
As of right now everyone is asleep in their own bed!! We’ll see how long that lasts!!
More adventures await us tomorrow!!
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