Child's Play.

Early this morning, I received a comment on MySpace from Val (who lives down the street from me), begging me to come over and keep her company as she watched her nephew. (She's not yet old enough to drive, so she's stuck at the house.) After much prodding, I headed over there at 11:30 am for a few hours.

Upon arriving, her nephew, Jacob was sleeping and we proceeded to make lunch. Val assisted in making me a delicious BLT and doritos. We discussed some urgent matters and then retired to the living room for TV and lunch. Jacob awoke soon thereafter...






Val had decided to play Pictionary and Guesstures with me, although with Jacob to watch, we could not play successfully. After changing his diaper, Val and I started watching high school musical. That's when it began...

Jacob proceeded to take the box of Pictionary cards and throw them into the air. I looked at Val and said, "Do you think you should put those away so he won't keep doing it?" She replied, "Oh, it's okay, I'll just clean it up when he's done." Jacob then took the box of Guesstures cards and added those to the mix...







Now Val was mad.She began to get frustrated and huff her breath. She looked at Jacob in disgust at the mess he made. I gently reminded her that I had warned her that this could happen. She would pick up a few cards and then beg me to help her (to which I kindly declined because of the previous warning). She would then get even angrier and kick and scream bloody murder! I was thoroughly amused...






I finally decided to briefly help Val (while occasionally throwing more cards on the floor) and Jacob was placed in the jumper to stay out of the way...It was truly a riotous afternoon...Let's just say she's not quite ready for motherhood...

Yestories.

It has been quite a while since I actually wrote anything, so I thought I would tell a few memories/stories from yesterday at Kristine's house.

1. Jim, Kristine, and Tina creeping upstairs to put shaving cream on the hands of Melisa and their sleeping cousin, Stephanie. Jim then comes running downstairs saying "Abort Mission because SOMEONE was talking too loud!" (Someone being Kristine).

2. Watching numerous episodes of dating on demand: "hottie or nottie?"

3. Brief stints of karaoke...with random computer images of strange looking girls.

4. Meeting Kristine's friends and telling them stories of Olivet...especially regarding "THE DEUCE."

5. Courtney (sic?), Tina and I "hiding" in Kristine's room...only for her to find us...very easily.

6. Taping episodes of dating on demand...particularly jon and "sandy's" characters.

7. Trying for a while to get the video on the tv/computer screen. thanks to kristine's mom! only to have kenny come down asking us not to watch the movie and us to wait like 2 minutes!!!

8. Melisa and I losing badly at corn hole or bean bags - WHATEVER! to Tina and Aldo...wowsies...

9. The thunderstorm and the frequent tornado warnings! (courtney, tina and I running in the "safe" closet, locking everyone else out!) only to find out that the tornado got "held up" in Kankakee.

10. Sara(h) referring to me as "the funny girl" and Courtney later calling us Kristine's "married friends"

11. Constant Powwowsies.

12. Bob scaring us by appearing "everywhere."

13. Waiting for hours watching the Cubs game looking for Bethany's sister's proposal.

14. One brief round of "Would you rather..."

15. Saying awkward things to Kristine in Romanian.

16. Leaving Aldo 87 and a half messages asking where he is and what he was doing.

17. Jim trying to scare Tina as she slept on the big chair (it didn't work, the plot was foiled)

18. Jon, Kenny, and Kevin dyeing their hair in one form or another.

19. Kristine attempting to do a grease song with her aunt and her mom.

20. Old photographs of 'the fam'

All in all a great night.