Don't Worry About the Grandchildren

Hi Honey,

Glad you had a nice time at your party. We loved babysitting the grand twins.  They were so good. Toddlers are so delightful.

Thanks for letting me bring Banjo.  Sorry he pooped on the floor the minute we got there. I was on my way to clean it up but Ellie dropped a book in it.  Don't worry, we thoroughly washed Ellie's hand with super soap.  Also sorry he chewed up a block from John's childhood but I think we did a nice job with the chop saw.  Copper was very tolerant of Banjo trying to bite his ears and hump him all night.  I'm kinda surprised because Banjo's only a puppy.  Banjo's just exhausted today. Ha, ha!  Dogs!

We got the new bubble making machine out and the kids do a great job with it.  They figured out how to press that little button to turn it on. Jack showed us that the little fan that blows the bubbles would not hurt his finger.  Ellie's hair was another story though, and I believe I did a pretty good job cutting the bubble machine out.  It is off to one side so you barely notice that it is short there.

Your new deck is glorious!  We decided to hose it off so that you wouldn't slip on all the soap we used blowing bubbles.  And since the broom was soapy too, we decided to use it to scrub off your back door where Copper's muddy footprints were.  That wasn't working, so I found some Pine Sol, and Dad found a brush and we went after it.  Do you have any paint?  We can repaint next time we're there where I brushed a leetle too hard and the paint came off.  Dad had this great idea to use the hose to spray it clean.  Did you know that your backdoor is not watertight?  The water went in your pantry, under the water heater and cat box.

Those Swiffers don't work so well on floods.  No worries!  I found some rags and cleaned up most of it, got the cat box out and (sorry) it slipped and dropped cat litter everywhere.  I'm pretty sure I got most of it, but some of it went under the water heater and I couldn't quite reach it.  Don't worry that the kids got into it, Dad took them into their room.

They invented a great new game!  Dump the Blocks.  Put all the blocks in one bucket, hold it as high as you can, the DUMP THE BLOCKS into another bucket.  Jack just loved it.  Chuck and Meredith from next door came over and wanted to know if everything was okay because you know how boys like to scream. Chuck really likes your beer, by the way.  I hope we didn't give him that special stuff you got in Roslyn.  That wasn't the beer in the growler, was it?

I'm pretty sure I got most of the water and cat litter up off your new kitchen floor, and it was getting near bath time, so we headed the kids into the bathroom.  I did as you said and set the kids on the potty.  Success from both kids.  Jack's not too good at aiming yet.  His little thing can really squirt, but it only got on Dad.  Dad laughs at anything.  I gave them smiley faces on their chart, but you know, I'm not sure I'd let them use that permanent marker to draw the faces.  Ellie drew a really big one.  I think you need a bigger piece of paper.  We can paint over it where it went all over the wall.  They wanted smiley faces on themselves too.  I thought that clown I drew on Ellie's stomach came out pretty well.  It got a little bigger than I planned, but it is still pretty cute.

Into the tub, and a bit more water mess.  Ha, ha.  That's why that pile of rags and towels are sitting on your washing machine.

The kids got a little sad when it was time for bed and missed you and their Daddy, so we got your picture and looked at it and sang that ear worm song about Mama and Dada.  Jack wanted to hold it and so did Ellie.  We can get you a new piece of glass for the frame, don't worry.  Nobody got cut.  We put them down and they only called us in once to retrieve binkies from the floor.  Dad tripped over some of the blocks that didn't make it in the bucket and smashed one of his front teeth when he fell against the changing table, but no worries, they are implants and didn't break.  Changing table is fine.

Chuck and Meredith said thanks for the beer, but since it was all gone they had better go.  Ha, ha, they are just hilarious people.  So much laughter.  That Meredith can laugh like a monkey and it just cracks me up.

So there you go, we had no trouble whatsoever.  Hope you had a good time at your party.

Love, Mom