Heather and Craig were celebrating their 10th anniversary and decided to go on a cruise. So, we were asked to babysit. Of course we said yea, even though we were in Washington D.C. on our way to Maine. Now, only the truly dog people will understand this but, we had to find a good place to leave Pralines. This was over 4th of July weekend too. I called my niece in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, only a short 5 hour drive from where we were in our motor home. Her husband Mike and she graciously agreed to babysit Pralines. So we left our motor home in the D.C. area, drove to Ohio. Dropped Pralines then flew out of Cleveland to Texas to babysit.
We arrived in Texas on Thursday and the kids were leaving till Saturday morning, which gave us a few days to get the routine down.
It was hot!! So the kids went swimming.
Claire was in charge of the hose.
Claire played with her cousin Miles. Miles is 3 weeks older than Claire. Claire is our petite little one.
Grandma Charlene sent the kids gift cards to Target, so we went shopping.
Addie got a mermaid Barbie.
Claire got a pink singing ball. (Very annoying.)
Asher got a swim mask and snorkel, but I didn't have a picture. So here he is eating. Which he did most of the time we were there.
We made it to church, all of us looking pretty good.
We went to the playground at the Galleria.
I can modestly say that our grandchildren were the LOUDEST children at the playground.
We colored.
Made Dodad a handmade birthday card.
Uncle Scottie brought Asher birthday present. 20 hot wheels. We had 16 left when Heather and Craig got home which I thought was remarkable.
We had ice cream for dinner one night and pie another.
On the third of July, Dodad and Kiki, Craig's parents, picked the kids and took them to the Lake house for the weekend. Our babysitting time was over with the grandkids. We did still have our granddogs.
Dodad taking the kids to the 4th of July parade.
* Disclaimer: Both grandparents loved babysitting, but we agreed 4 days was our maximum. And we needed help. We had Iris, the nanny on Monday and Miranda, the babysitter, the rest of the time except of Tuesday when we were completely on our own. Kiki and Dodad had their two nieces and other family members.
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