Maybe weekends are just wonderful in general, but this one was so much fun! Like the title says, Andrew and I became parents for the weekend. I have been babysitting/nannying (whatever the appropriate term is for the age I am ;-)) for twins, Luke and Eleen for about three years now, since they were two, I'll let you do the math. Every now and then I get lucky and have them for a whole weekend. It's like parent-in-a-bag. I take them for three days, play with them and do lots of fun stuff and then Andrew and I get to go back to being just us again. It's the best of both worlds.
This weekend we did so many fun things. We started with a family dinner at the Olive Garden to celebrate Andrew's and Kim's (my stepmom) birthdays. The twins were very well behaved and even got to go to Orange Leaf afterwards. What a treat!
Saturday morning we (and by we I mean the kids) woke up early and started off with a great breakfast, then we went to Dillons to shop for snacks that Eleen needed to take to her class for this coming week. While we were there we stopped in the Halloween aisle because these crazy five year olds love anything spooky. They started trying on the masks and I had to take some pictures. They were so cute! I finally tore them away from that aisle and we headed home to put everything away.
It was such a beautiful day that we decided to play with chalk outside. We made the world's longest hop scotch and drew pictures of them, me and Andrew on the driveway. By then it was almost time for lunch and Andrew had a fabulous idea to go to a fly-in. We drove over to the grass runway and watched all of the planes fly in. The kids loved it (and so did I). I took a ton of pictures with the kids by every airplane, ran around for a while and then hopped back into the car to go to the new Maya Angelou library by our house. While at the library we noticed a playground and the twins enjoyed playing on the monkey bars for a while. Needless to say everyone was exhausted so we went home and watched a Magic School Bus video Luke checked out from the library. It was about bats. He got it because it had vampires on it, see, everything scary. We took a little nap and then woke up and played a "grown up" game together. They didn't know the name of it (you can tell by the pictures why) we just called it the donkey game and they were really good at it. Lots of fun for Andrew and I. After that we got ready to go to my mom's for dinner.
My friend Ginger brought her two kids and the four of them had a great time together. By the end of the night Broc and Zoey had shared their silly bands with Luke and Eleen and they were calling themselves the glow buddies because the bands glow in the dark. It was very cute and we got some funny pictures out of it. Luke and Eleen were exhausted by the time I got them home. They basically fell into bed, and so did I!
Sunday, Andrew was nice enough to take the morning shift so that I could go for a run and clean up without little ones pestering me. However, he lucked out and they were still asleep when I got back from my run, but I still enjoyed a peaceful shower while he played with them downstairs. So, we all had breakfast, the kids were given baths and we headed to church. Andrew and I had never arrived at church with kids so this was a new experience for us. We found the appropriate Sunday School class for them and Eleen even new one of the girls already in there, it worked out great. We kept Sunday pretty low key, they were still exhausted from the day before. We went back over to my mom's where they watched the movie, "Bolt" (so cute!) and then played with the grass sled my mom has. It is a great outside activity, Mom and I even joined in for a couple rides. We left and ran some errands and then made the final trip back to their house. They were so quiet while I made dinner that I suspected bedtime would arrive early, and it did. I read to them for about forty minutes and around seven they were either fast asleep or very close to being asleep.
Now I am home enjoying my peace and quiet, but also enjoying reminiscing over this entertaining time together and looking forward to the next time I get to "play parent" for a weekend.
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