To the park

Sister calls me up at the last minute (sister never plans in advance) to babysit her kids so she can get her house clean. She can't clean well with them there. Gee, did my Fall Cleaning announcements rub off onto others. Well, I was intending to finish my cleaning with the master bedroom and bath today, but it wait til tomorrow (I'm in no hurry to clean). So say yes. This will be the 4th visit this week.




So they arrive and nephew wants to go to the park. Later. Play with toys first. He don't want to play, he wants to turn on all the lights. It's daytime so don't need lights. He wants to push all the buttons and open every drawer he finds in the apartment. No, play with toys in the guest room. Niece has a ball changing doll clothes and see what I grabbed from Grandma's house. Niece asks which grandma's house. Which one do you think? My mother, her grandma. I didn't grow up in my brother-in-law's house so nothing of mine there.



After play, when nephew is getting antsy about the park. We take Precious for his walk outside. Nephew is bored and so is niece. They take turns holding P's leash. Then nephew starts trying to open car doors, open trunks, and gas tank covers. I yelled at him for releasing a truck door on the back and what does he do after standing terrified of me. He tries to open car doors, trunk doors, and gas tank covers. I keep yelling at him through the whole walk not to touch other people's cars. He recognizes my car and tries to open it so he can go to park. Door is locked. Then Nephew gets the idea to drop a pile of leaves on niece's head. So when she does the same to him, he cries and runs to me. If he gets to toss leaves at niece, then she can do the same to him. They both drop leaves on me holding P and I return the favor to both. P gets tired of leaves being dropped on him and goes inside. Nephew cries he don't want to go inside. Too bad.



Have a snack and off to the park. Drive around trying to find it and when we get there, nephew wants to go home, eat supper, and Mom will come back. Mom ain't coming for hours so go play. He bugged me to death to come here so we are playing. He clings to me as niece runs amok. Slides, swings, and steps/ ladders we clown around until I need to go fix our supper. Nephew throws a fit the whole time wanting to go home to Mommy, wants a snack, wants water, just because he is bored from not playing. Not yet. So it gets late and we return to my place to eat. I refused to let them watch any TV until they started playing. They got exercise so they have a movie while I get theire meal cooked.

I gave niece more ice cream because she ate more supper. Eat, put away toys, and call Mommy to see when she is coming. She just said after supper.



So sister comes and picks them up. Niece and nephew couldn't wait to tell her what we did.