Watching the Boys - part 4

The boys slept well. We had plans to spend the next day with Bossy's family until Beauty and The Beast picked them up. I made a delicious lunch.

Then we started with a craft class at the library.

My job was to play with Bright Eyes.

I think I did a pretty good job...

After the library, we headed down the street to the rec center. It was time to go swimming. We had so much fun!

We had so much fun!!

Bossy's boys had a dance class, so we all got out around 3. We had a couple of hours until pickup, so we came up with a few more things to do.

The boys had never been to the cemetery to see my sweetie's bench, so that was our first stop.

Then one last stop for these cute boys.

Yumm!!

Until next time....

Watching the Boys - part 3

It is monsoon season in Utah, but sadly, I can only remember two big storms this summer. We were fortunate to have this one when the boys were with us.

Little Warrior and I were standing on the front porch watching the rain when the water started coming down in sheets. It pooled up in driveways and the gutters were filled.

I asked Little Warrior if he had ever danced in the rain. He looked at me like I was crazy until I told him that his dad had done it many times.

Then he turned and ran down the steps, across the grass and into the warm summer rain.

It only took a bit of urging to get Little Squire to join him. 

By then Scout had joined me on the porch. It took about 30 seconds before I started stripping off my shoes and socks. She followed me, dropping our phones and hurrying down the lawn to join the boys and enjoy the rain. 

We all got soaked and I won Pooh Sticks before minutes later the rain stopped as quickly as it came, the gutters emptied and life returned to normal. 

But that memory joins generations of others; just playing together in the summer rains.

Watching the Boys - part 2

Tuesday morning was our day to spend with Princess and her kids. We had decided on the Planetarium, movie and popcorn included. Curly and Baby Doll joined us.

We had so much fun!!

See ya!!

Watching the Boys - part 1

I think I told you that Beauty and The Beast had some kind of work thing and they asked if we would like to watch their boys for a couple of days. The two days they were staying with us were the ones immediately following the family campout, so they were dropped off on a Monday evening. Little Squire was still struggling with his injury, but to me, it appeared to be healing up quite nicely.

Little Warrior really wanted to play catch the football with someone, so the Dog Walker volunteered. Little Squire joined me in the garden and helped me pull weeds until it was time to go inside. He was really good at it!

We typically have FHE on Monday night, so we figured there was no reason to break with our new tradition. Baby Doll was in charge and she had prepared a lesson with fill-in-the-blank pages from the Bible teachings. I was surprised how willing the boys were to follow along and fill in their own worksheets. 

After the lesson, Baby Doll pulled out the Skull King cards. I was worried that this game might be too difficult for the boys. but they loved it! Little Squire played with me and Little Warrior teamed up with Scout. We had so much fun with the boys. We all got so silly! 

They renamed the Kraken to "Quackin." We just couldn't stop laughing. Little Squire was a bit put out when Scout sabotaged us right at the end and we lost, but that is how the game goes. We talked at length about how "the fun is in the play, not in the win."

I'm not sure we convinced Little Warrior.