They arrived about 7 o clock and we let them play for a while then I made some chocolate chip cookies (betty crocker) Donald had told me that when they spend the night at their cousins they always get chocolate chip cookies for a snack at bedtime. I made the cookies and fresh out the oven put them on a plate and placed it in the middle of the table. I gave them each a glass of milk and told them to help themselves to cookies. The female cousin said 'I don't like that it's horrible' we said 'you haven't tried it' she took a tiny nibble and said 'that's horrible' oh well more for me! every one else enjoyed the lovely soft warm cookies! Later we let them make tortilla snowflakes like we had done during advent and they thoroughly enjoyed making them but again the female cousin said 'i dont like that it's horrible' again we told her 'you havent tried it' another tiny nibble and the reply came 'that's horrible' atleast she drank her milk that was something. everyone else enjoyed the snowflakes. Into Pjamas, Teeth Brushed, and time for a DVD 'Dinosaur' the female cousin said 'I don't like that dvd' I said 'you haven't seen it' then she replied 'but i know I don't like it because it's about dinosaurs and I don't like dinosaurs' then I told her 'But it has monkeys in it.. everybody likes monkeys!' The DVD started and they all lay in the beds watching it. Joy fell asleep first but at midnight I could still hear Donald giggling away.
In the morning I woke about 8:30 and they were all already awake. we let them pick what they wanted for breakfast out of crunchy nut, curiously cinnamon, and rice krispies. the boys took curiously cinnamon and the girls chose rice krispies. They ate their breakfast, got dressed, brushed their teeth and we decided to take them on a nice refreshing walk!
Before we left the house the female cousin declared she didn't want to go to the nature trail because it was boring. everyone else was up for it though! Once we were on the nature trail they were all having so much fun she forgot she didn't want to go!
They saw lots of icicles along our walk! Brrr!
Teo enjoyed walking down the wooden steps
But he must have tired himself out because as we were approaching the end he began to cry, I was carrying him but he kept crying until I cradled him in my arms and then he was nearly sleeping but my arms were getting sore and I had to shift him and he began crying again.
Donald and the female cousin both slipped on some ice at the same time, Donald got up and carried on but the female cousin hurt her back and started to cry. we comforted her but she cried for a while. eventually she stopped and then I almost slipped, Joy was walking in front of me and William was walking beside me, I was carrying Teo. As I felt myself Slip I grabbed Joy's hood and she nearly went down with me but william grabbed my arm and we all stayed upright. I appologized to Joy for grabbing her and nearly taking her down with me but she was okay. Donald had another slip but again just got up and carried on! when we eventually got back to the car we were all freezing and exhausted! everyone had such Rosy cheeks! Teo finally fell asleep and we returned home to enjoy some lunch! we made ham sandwiches and cut them into dinosaur shapes, the female cousin took a little nibble and declared 'thats horrible' so the boys each took one of hers so they had 3 dinosaurs. We made her chicken nuggets and chips for lunch instead and, put smaller portions out for the rest of them just incase, and of course they did take it! they were well fed that day! after lunch the male cousin asked for the dinosaur dvd so I put it on again and he sat and watched it for a while, the female cousin Joined him but the male cousin walked away half way through, the female cousin watched it til the end then Joy put on strawberry shortcake. after the DVD's the blocks came out.
they all had so much fun creating amazing things! it's amazing the power of the imagination, and no matter how old you get you can always enjoy playing with a pile of blocks!
We told their parents we'd have them back for lunchtime but with the time lunch took then the dvds and blocks, lunchtime soon came and went so we told them maybe 3 o clock but they were having so much fun playing that it was even later. We got them home at supper time, not sure exactly what time it was... possibly 5. the male cousin started crying, his mum hugged him and asked what was wrong and he said 'i just didn't want to come home' Joy asked if she could spend the night with them but we told her no as Donald had drama class in the morning. the female cousin was quite glad to be home we could see she was exhausted and she went straight to her nintendo ds. We let the children stay and play for a while and we enjoyed a cup of tea and a chat then we had to drag them home.
We told their parents we'd have them back for lunchtime but with the time lunch took then the dvds and blocks, lunchtime soon came and went so we told them maybe 3 o clock but they were having so much fun playing that it was even later. We got them home at supper time, not sure exactly what time it was... possibly 5. the male cousin started crying, his mum hugged him and asked what was wrong and he said 'i just didn't want to come home' Joy asked if she could spend the night with them but we told her no as Donald had drama class in the morning. the female cousin was quite glad to be home we could see she was exhausted and she went straight to her nintendo ds. We let the children stay and play for a while and we enjoyed a cup of tea and a chat then we had to drag them home.
We had no problems getting them to bed that night! well except Teo, he fell asleep in the car on the way home so he stayed up a little later than I would have liked but oh well can't have it all can we?
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