A Week with Aedin and Winrey

2/14/08 to 2/20/08

We tended Aedin and Winrey for a week while their parents (Alex and Lannette) celebrated their 5th Anniversary at Disneyland and other fun California places.

Aedin is 3 1/2 and Winrey just turned 1 yr-0ld. They were both very good and we had fun. Here is a list of what we did:

Winrey loved playing with all the toys, especially the Fire Truck. She learned to push it around and walk behind it, and also learned to ride it.

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• Aedin liked watching Glen play on the computer, Aedin also loved playing the computer game, Frogger. But I only let him play that first day, because that’s all he wanted to do! And I wanted to do other things with him. We also watched one movie together each afternoon as a rest time for him.
• Petting Zoo
  This is part of a pet store, but it has a wonderful little petting zoo. We saw: all kinds of fish, puppies, birds, rabbits, pot bellied pigs, chickens, goats and many baby goats, sheep, donkeys, ponies, ostrich, emu, llamas, and a monkey.
• On Saturday while Greg stayed with Winrey, I took Aedin to an indoor playground at the mall. It was very busy, lots of kids, and Aedin loved it. His favorite was the slide.
• Aedin painted a picture with poster paint and big brushes.
• We read a book about airplanes, and Aedin learned to fly a paper airplane.
• He made a necklace with foam beads.
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• We played Candyland and Shutes and Ladders. (He loved that one!)
  
• We read lots of stories including Daniel in the Lion's Den. Aedin was impressed by that one!
  
• We played in a blanket house.
• At the church on Tuesday, in the cultural hall, we played soccer with a beach ball while Winrey played with a big truck. She could hold onto a part of the truck at the back and walk all around.
• We also played with the toys in the nursery room. They both thought that was great!

We didn’t take them to church on Sunday because Winrey had a runny nose and cough, and Greg and I also had several meeting we had to go to for Ward Conferences. So we just took turns staying with them at home.

I wish I could have taken pictures of all the things we did, but I was concentrating on the activities and forgot to take pictures.

Aedin also liked our "Christmas Tree." It IS really pretty with the snow on it.

It was fun, and I love them both so much, but I’ll have to admit, I was glad that Lannette wanted them back after a week. Little kids are a lot of work! But I will be excited to watch them again when Alex and Lannette want to go on
another trip.