Last week I took care of my godkids for a little while, and as usual, I took pictures. They aren't quite as good as usual because the batteries in my camera were dying. The evening didn't exactly go as planned. The kids have been with their grandparents but now they're back. They have an older brother from a previous relationship that their dad had before he was married. They adore their brother, and they'd just seen him. He went with his dad as they have short visits and what's the point of a visit if he spent the time with me instead of his dad? They went to pick Annette up at the doctor - but along the way they stopped to run some errands and the older brother got stung by, I think, a nest of yellow jackets.
That meant a visit to urgent care etc. Needless to say the two younger kids were about to jump out of their skins with excitement - and then when the wait turned out to be longer than expected, well, they just couldn't contain their energy.
They run around and jump up and down in my apartment - but my apartment building is older and when they jump the entire building shakes.
So, I took them out into the courtyard to run off some of their energy. Otherwise, my apartment would have been in shambles.
Their brother was able to join us for dinner. It made everyone's night to see him okay. He's a great kid. He's so polite and well mannered and he's very good with his younger siblings.
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