babysitting

Yesterday, Gina and I babysat for Emmy's girls while she attended a meeting with Caleb at church. We had a wondeful time with the girls and Billy, and they seemed to have a fairly good time together, on Abby's first birthday.

[I recall being in the hospital with Emmy and Caleb all day when Abby arrived a year ago, and getting all kinds of teasing from the nurses since I was quite pregnant still. Time moves quickly!]

Anyway, the cousins played for a while, and then the little ones went down for their morning naps while Aunt Gina, Kaylee and I decorated cookies I baked earlier in the week for this occation. We had the table covered with waxed paper, numerous icing containers, knives, sprinkles, napkins, and of course, cookies. Kaylee was so excited and Aunt Gina was just as thrilled to have so much fun...

We iced cookies, sprinkled sprinkles ontop, and then set aside the cookie to begin another. [Kaylee had to stop often to wash her hands in the sink as she was often found licking the icing off of her fingers.]

Gina and I also used a bag of icing and cake decorating tip to decorate some of the cookies. Here are some of our results... some of which have already been eaten by our families :)

Lunch was an interesting affair; mainly because the babies were on the same schedule. They both drank their bottles but were too distracted to eat. Abby was a good girl and napped at our house in the afternoon too, while Kaylee wanted to play games and watch a movie and read a book. Aunt Gina napped (trying to get rid of a headache) and I did my best to keep things quiet. We cleaned things up before Em came in the afternoon and packed up all the cookies to take home.

We had a wonderful day!