Busy, Busy, Busy Weekend

The weekend started off with me picking up the niece and nephews to kidsit over the weekend while their parents went off to celebrate their wedding anniversary. The kids are 14, 12, and 10 and they are the best kids to watch. We will call my niece RED (12 years old) and she is my little helper with DDT. The boys we will call POLO (14 years old) and BATBOY (10 years old). The boys are awesome and love to play with DDT as well. So Friday night we rented 2 movies - RV and The Game Plan. We had pizza, salad and root beer floats. Uncle PANDA taught the boys the lovely game of 31, not 21, but 31. Very interesting and the boys seemed to catch on pretty quickly. While they were playing POLO asked me if I had any candy cigars. Funny you should ask, I do. I warned them that they were kinda old since someone gave them to me when I had DDT. So there the boys sat at the table playing cards and "smoking" their blue cigars that said "Its a boy!" Of course, I had to take a picture!


As the boys were playing their card game, RED helped me with DDT. She helped with bathtime and just plain ol' entertainment. RED loves making faces at the camera and DDT is starting to get the hang of it as well.


As the kids were watching RV, I decided to start on a puzzle. The puzzle is 500 pieces and I thought it would be fun to work on over the weekend. So by the movies end, I had finished the border of the puzzle. Check it out!


On Saturday, my mission was to find pajamas for DDT. So I heard Burlington Coat Factory had a baby department so I decided to check it out. OMG!! This place was horrible! If I wanted to buy DDT a pink shirt and a pin striped suit, it would have been the perfect place but I was not able to find pjs. After I gave up there, I asked the kids if they wanted Starbucks...Stupid question, of course they did. So we went through the drive thru and headed back to La Bufta with our drinks. Once we got back into town, we stopped by to see if Uncle PANDA was at the station and he was, so we stopped and visited for awhile. The kids love visiting the fire station and always try to bet each other who will slide down the fire pole. All of them backed out due to the fact they had shorts on. Once we said goodbye, we drove over to GRAMMY and PAPA's house to visit but the other cousins who we will call SPORTY SPICE (12 years old), TV (10 years old) and SPAZ (6 years old), informed us that GRAMMY and PAPA were not home and would not be until later. SPORTY SPICE said that they would be going to lunch and then a movie so she decided to ask her dad (CHUCKY, my brother in law) if RED, POLO and BATBOY could join them. He agreed and off they went. DDT and I proceeded to go home for a little R n R.

While DDT was napping, I decided to work on the puzzle. I was going strong until DDT woke up from his 2 hour nap. I gave him so food and let him play in the front room while I continued to work on the puzzle. At one point I glanced at the clock and it was 6 o'clock! OMG! All I could think of was where the kids were. No word from CHUCKIE and I was pissed! After venting to PANDA about my situation, CHUCKIE called and informed me they were going to take them out to dinner. Fine. Like PANDA, I am sure you all are like "what's the big deal?" Well the deal is this - I like hanging out with RED, POLO and BATBOY. If it were the other kids - SPORTY SPICE, TV and SPAZ, it would have been a different story. But the other kids I enjoy having around and the fact that they (CHUCKIE and D.W., his wife) didn't take into consideration if I had anything planned for the kids. Whatever, I am over it...okay not really but maybe in a couple of days. So around 7:45 the kids show up. They are ready to watch The Game Plan. I proceed to put DDT down to sleep and put the DVD on for the kids. The movie was actually very cute and wouldn't mind watching it again. Oh and as for the puzzle, I finished it right after the kids got home! A 500 piece puzzle in less that 24 hours all by myself!


When PANDA got home on Sunday morning, he had a lovely idea for an activity. The Discovery Zone (DZ) in Santa Ana! Perfect! There is a new Bob the Builder exhibit and I know the kids will love it there. So off we went. Of course since there were so many of us (6) we had to take 2 cars. We had breakfast at Ruby's and then we were off! The DZ was amazing! PANDA at one point said he could spend all day there. It was a little tough with DDT, he has no concept of staying by us and takes off at any given moment but I guess that is a 16 month old for ya! After a couple of hours we called it quits and headed back home to wait for the kids parents (REV RUN and MOTHER GOOSE) to get back into town. We timed it perfectly and REV RUN and MOTHERGOOSE were at the house about 1/2 hour after we returned. Once there, PANDA and I were informed of a birthday dinner for TV at CHUCKIES house. As this blog is long enough I will spare you all the details. Dinner was at GRAMMY and PAPA's instead of CHUCKIES and D.W., so that was a good thing. Lets just say that CHUCKIES wife, D.W., was her pleasant, love to chat self.....YEA RIGHT! I think she may have said one word to me, wait....nope! That is another blog in itself.

The weekend was quite the busy one and this blog is way tooooo long, so in the future I promise it will be much shorter.....