Adventures in Babysitting!

(Yes she is really asleep!)

Hubs and I had the opportunity to babysit our nieces and nephew [Hallie(almost 8), Abbi(5 1/2), and Sam(2)] for a week, and boy was it an adventure! Actually, all three kids were really good (and I am not just saying that because we are related to them, or that I know their mother will see this!). Here is our recap of the week:

Day 1:
Shannon and Jared leave for Hawaii that morning.
Get a call from Hallie's school in the afternoon telling me I needed to come pick her up because she fell and cut her head open.
Get to the school and pick her up, and nurses recommend that I take her to urgent care.
Go to urgent care after I get neighbors to watch the other to kids.
Doctor thinks Hallie should have a stitch or two.
Hallie ended up with no stitches because we couldnt get her to lay still for them, because she didnt want them AT ALL!
Doctor just tapes her cut shut.
Later that night Sam wasnt feeling very well and had a temp of 103.1, after giving him some medicine fever breaks.
Sam sleeps with us that night and we didnt get much sleep because he was all over the place in his restless sleep.
Day 2:
Attempt the Tulip Festival with the three kids and two of my friends and their three kids each, and no husbands.
Sunny when we arrived.
Kids played on toys for a little while, then we headed out to the tulip fields for pictures.
It starts to rain, we find a tent to hang out under.
Then it starts to HAIL (pea-sized).
The kids are freezing and not very happy.
We were far from a quick walk to the cars.
Finally there was a break in the weather and we all make a run for it.
The walk back was very slippery and muddy.
Poor Abbi falls on her hands and knees and is covered in mud.
She cried the rest of the way back to the car and was really worried about her pants being ruined (they were brown courderoy pants).
Finally get back to the car, and try to get everybody's shoes cleaned off so we wont get the van dirty.
Day 3: just a normal day.
Day 4: just another normal day.
We take the kids to Chucky Cheese. The kids had alot of fun!
Day 5:
We take the kids to OMSI with our friends the Farr's. We learned so very interesting stuff about the Amazon.
Hallie had a Choir Festival. I left Hubs at home with Abbi and Sam and Hallie and I headed out to be there the 45 minutes early we were supposed to be. When it was time for her Choir to perform they came and told us that they would come and get us in about 5 or 10 minutes. A whole hour later they finally came and got us. The kids didnt even start singing until a half hour after they were supposed to be done. There was alot of waiting and the kids were very restless. I was very glad it was just Hallie and I.
Day 6:
We took the kids to church. A very uneventful day, thank goodness!
Day 7:
The kids are very ready for their parents to come home. Abbi was crying at the drop of a hat.
Day 8:
Abbi still very sensitive and Sam would not take a nap and would not go to bed. He just cryed for last part of the day.
Shannon and Jared come home really late. To late for the kids to see them.
(I bet those kids were super excited to see their parents when they woke up!)

We had a lot of fun with the kids and we will miss them alot.