Tonight I babysat my cousin Trevor's kids--Jace (3 yrs) and Lexi (6 mos). Jace walked in the door and
immediately took off his jacket and shoes, all chucked on the floor, and headed to the piano to start playing. A promising start to an amusing night.
Anyway, after playing on the piano for a bit, petting the cat, and commenting on how the pine needles were falling off the Christmas tree, Jace announced that he was going upstairs. He went into the spare room and kept saying, "There are so many toys in here!" He got into the lego bin and expressed disappointment at the fact that there was no engine so that he could make a train. I told him we should take everything downstairs so we could make sure Lexi didn't wake up and cry.
We took the bin downstairs and Jace said, "There are so many movies!" The legos were completely forgotten. He picked out 101 Dalmations and screamed, "I'm going to watch 101
DALMATIONS!" He stuffed that VHS tape into the VCR, and we started watching it. That's right. A VHS! Haven't watched one of those in
years. Can't even tell you how amusing it was to watch with him. He was completely enthralled. His facial expressions were priceless. He was laughing hysterically at the "twilight bark" part of the movie. The energy of that kid was incredible. He was bouncing up and down. Never stayed in the same position for more than a minute at a time. Here are some photos I took of him watching the movie:
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| Concentrating hard |
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| Sitting still |
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| Bouncing up and down |
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| Super stressed because the puppies were trying to escape in the movie | | |
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| Back to being relaxed... |
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| Amazingly he looked at me for a shot. Most of the time he was unresponsive to any attempt to talk to him. |
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| My personal favorite |
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| He was hanging and swinging on this at one point, all the while watching 101 Dalmations and Lady and the Tramp |
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| Smiling at the movie :) |
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| Such focus |
When his parents came partway through Lady and the Tramp, our attempts to turn off the movie were pretty traumatic for him. We let him borrow the movie instead. Never seen anyone more grateful for something than he was for that lol.
Anyway, Lexi slept most the time. She finally woke up though :)
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| Just woke up from a long nap |
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| Happy face :) |
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| Nice hair! |
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| Jealous of the dark eyes and light hair |
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| She got into the movie, too lol |
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So that was the night. It was good to be around little ones for a change. Adults can be tiring. Here are some other pics I haven't posted...
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| Decorating the tree for FHE |
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| Ornaments :) |
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| The Eiffel Tower! |
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| Grandpa Neal |
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| My view of the Temple after an endowment session |
Tim and I put up the Christmas lights today. Mostly Tim did lol. But it was in the cold rain, so it wasn't very fun. Afterward, Tim came in and goes, "Bad news. I think we did it the wrong way." We started with the wrong end of the lights :( Which means Tim had to redo it all later...especially since half the lights came down hahahaha. Yay for Christmas!
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