A few weeks ago, my husband had to go out of town for a golf tournament. Now since I'm working, I called on my ever so faithful sister to help watch my girls while I worked. Seeing as though it's not like she lives just next door, one could consider her a very expensive babysitter. But the flight was booked on a free ticket (just a few taxes had to be paid), she has a bunch of vacation time at work, it seemed a perfect match. So right from the get go, my ever so faithful sister was on duty. I switched shifts with another girl who couldn't work during lunch and since my sister was going to be in by 11am, the boss said it was OK. So, I picked her up, they dropped me off at work, and she was thrust into babysitting duty. The girls had been up early that morning since we took my husband to the airport at 6:30. So their day was already messed up by the time Auntie took over. I gave her directions on how to get to my house and my trusty map (that she bought for me once) was in the vehicle ready for use. Lunch was on schedule (which sounded like it went alright) but nap time didn't go so well. Since Cocoa had fallen asleep in the car on the way to pick up Auntie from the airport, I had a funny feeling that she wouldn't take her usual nap and Sweet Pea would just be too wound up from the days early events to want to sleep. I got off earlier than expected and made the call for them to come pick me up. After twenty minutes passed, I started to get worried since they hadn't shown up yet. Once they arrived I found out that Auntie made them put away their toys before they left to picked me up (WAY TO GO AUNTIE!!!!).
It was a busy week while she was out. I did have the following day after she arrived off, so we enjoyed some quality grocery shopping time. Now she sees how fun it is to shop with a 2 and 4 year old. (It takes forever.) I had two more days off during her stay. My husband came home on Friday night and Saturday, Sunday, and Monday I was sure he would be working on the yard as usual. I had Saturday and Monday off so I knew I would be able to spend sometime with my sister. On Saturday we took the girls, grabbed some lunch from Sonic (YUMMY CHEESE CONEY'S!!!), and headed for the park downtown. We enjoyed our lunch and the girls ran around the really tall trees and played hide and seek. We enjoyed the sights and sounds of a Hawaiian performance group that was near by performing for a party. At some point I grabbed the camera to take some pictures of the girls playing. Sure enough Sweet Pea wanted to take pictures too. So I handed her the camera. Cocoa wanted to do the same so Auntie handed over her camera. Of all the photos that were taken this one became my favorite. It's a view through the eyes of a child.
