Yours truly has been on “Favorite Aunt” duty this week…

I was at BigBro #4’s house for a few days. I was downstairs yesterday morning getting dressed when my nephew K (the 4-yr old) comes a-knocking at the bathroom door to tell me that his sister M (she’s 2) keeps bothering him, she supposedly messed up his “picture”. I ask K if he’s tattling. He says “No, I’m just talking to you.”

He proceeds to tell me that M won’t leave him alone so he told her to leave the room. (Of course she didn’t; Ms. M has a mind of her own.) We talk about his picture and I assure him that she didn’t mean to mess it up – she probably was trying to copy him, she loves her big brother, she just wants to play, yada yada yada. K is like, “Um, no she meant to do it and she keeps following me.” By this time, M is outside the bathroom door with her big brother and he is NOT happy.

I’m really trying not to laugh because he sounds like a little ol’ man for real. So he’s telling his sister to stop following him, to leave him alone and says something to her about not seeing Santa Claus. Hmmm, I figure I can turn the tables on him using Santa right?

So I say to him, “K, you know if you’re mean to your sister Santa probably won’t bring you any toys for Christmas. So, what do you want – toys or to make your sister NOT play with you?”

That kid didn’t skip a beat. He said, “I have enough toys.”

Priceless.

Halloween. It sure has changed huh?

BigBro#4 left the house with “Li’l Dead Riding Hood”, a witch, a skeleton and a pink poodle. Sis-in-law is upstairs stirring up the pots so Aunt Jackie is designated the “candy lady”.

It’s 6:30pm and so far I’d seen a princess, the cutest little bumblebee (accompanied by her mother who was dressed…as…a…french maid. *SIGH*), a pirate, Dora, a rabbit, a spider, Elmo, a skeleton, and a few other assorted characters.

I hear some kids coming up the walk but nobody says anything so I’m standing there looking at them. I open the door and they yell, “Trick-or-Treat!”. Now that’s more like it! So, I’m doling out candy and checking out costumes.

One of the girls, I’m guessing she was about 12 had on a pseudo-military costume…military cap, jacket with the epaulets, skirt…

I ask her who she was….

Are you ready?

Are you sure?

This chick looked me dead in the face, smiled all super lip-glossy and oh so proud of herself and said, “I’m a Major Flirt.”

I.HAVE.NO.MO.WORDS.

I closed the door, unplugged the pumpkins, and turned off the light.

Sweet Jesus part the sky!

Next up for “Favorite Aunt”?

SATs…Round 1

Followed by an opportunity to participate in “Conversations & Couples”. *Sigh* Yep, yours truly has an opp to moderate/facilitate/participate in conversations re: L-O-V-E. It should prove to be veddy veddy in-ta-res-ting.