grandma's house

i am very lucky. my parents and daddy's parents are local. and both sets of grandparents love to watch the kids. we started a new school in december and i was told that the school was open the week in between christmas and new years. unfortunately i discovered (after i submitted my vacation request) that was not the case. the kids school was only open on wednesday and thursday of that week. we had off on monday, so i needed sitters for tuesday and friday. mimi and poppy (daddy's parents) took the kids on tuesday and on friday the kids went to grandma's house (mommy's parents).

gilly eating her sammich

the kids had a great day at mimi's house on tuesday.  they were able to spend some quality time with gigi (their great grams).  plus they got to go to the "grilled cheese sammich store"  (aka panera).  gilly and gigi tried to take a nap, but got interrupted with a little messy diaper.  after a quick change of clothes, gilly was not willing to go down for another nap.  so they got to play and they also got to take gigi to meet pop-pop so they could go home to their puppies.   

gillian and aunt betty outside

i dropped the kids off at grandma's on friday and john was able to wake up aunt betty.  they immediately settled in and ate their breakfast.  i left them.  after breakfast, john got to watch the dinosaur train show with grandpa.  he loved the dinosaur train.  they got to watch it again later in the day.  they had played outside with chalk.  aunt betty put together some betty's clues for john to solve.  all the clues directed john to making pretzel dough.  john and gillian gave aunt betty a hot pretzel maker for christmas.  and as we all know, john loves to cook.  making pretzel dough was a perfect project.  the dough needed to rise a little bit.  they had lunch and then it was time for gillian's nap.  gilly is a good napper.  well, she needs to fall asleep first after that she can sleep for two hours or so.  aunt betty tried to rock her to sleep, but she called in the big guns: grandma.  grandma rocked gilly and got her to fall asleep. 



making pretzel dough



sleeping angel



while gillian was napping, john and aunt betty played betty's clues again.  this time the clues directed john to watch a movie with aunt betty.  they started to watch cars 2 and i guess my little critic decided that he didn't like that movie and they had to switch to something else.  sorry, i can't seem to remember what they decided to watch.  they had a great day at grandma's house!

john playing his "ds" in grandpa's chair