"Tending" Our Nephews

We had a fun evening last week at my sister Brittney's house watching her and my brother in law David's boys, Bryan and Matty. They're 3 and 9 months, and fun little tykes. Bryan is on a pirate kick right now, and wanted desperately for me to play pirates with him. So his pirate name was Jack, mine Harry :), and Jake's was Arrrrrdie. Bryan had me sit on his bed which was our pirate ship, and pretend that we were looking for treasure throughout his room. He told me to look for the Golden Carrot, and when I asked what the heck that was, he said it's gold and shiny! Ohhhh. We dodged sharks, threw the rope (broken guitar string) to each other, and pieced his little overused plastic pirate sword back together many times.

It's fun to see kids use their imaginations, and it's exhausting, too, cuz they never want their fantasy world playtime to end! I give props to all the moms out there with rambunxious little ones running around pretending to be super heroes, pirates, princesses, and cartoon characters and for playing with them! Ohh the carefree joys of childhood. I know when I was a kid, my favorite pasttimes included playing with Little People, playing in our playhouse built on top of the swingset, Barbies, Cabbage Patch Kids, trolls, school (in which I was the teacher in my little white rocking chair and my brother Nathan and a slew of stuffed animals were the students) and other enjoyable activities. I'm excited to have kids one of these days so that I can see them learn to play and use their fun imaginations, like I see All my nephews doing!
Nice cheerio, Matty. Savin that for later? And this picture of Bry is kinda funny...he looks all dirty with his drooly shirt and peanut butter and jelly face. Cute kid though!
And here's another cute kid joining him. :) He loves his uncle Jake and they have fun together. Jake's gonna be a good daddy someday!