Heels and purses

HYSo, I kept my nephew last night and his mom will be coming in a few hours to get him. Its my sister and her hubby's anniversary. So I agreed to keep the munchkin so they could have time together, alone. She lives an hour or so away from me. Her dad (we are half sisters) lives like 10 mins. from her but he and his wife refuse to keep their grandson and so my sister never gets a break. Its sad. I wish she lived closer so I could help her more.

Well its hasn't been as bad as I thought it might be. See Dallas(my nephew) is an only child for one thing and for another he is a tiny bit delayed. At one point we were worried he was autistic. A fact which I believe is still possible, if only a little. He gets very loud and doesn't quite talk as well as he should by almost 4 years old. He has done good though. He had a little difficulty going to bed last night because I put my kids to bed a lot earlier than my sister does. He usually goes to bed around 10 or 11. I put mine down somewhere between 730 -8pm. Last night I thought I should try to wait till 830 or 9 but I got suddenly tired and decided not to wait.

We moved my youngest daughters bed into my sons room and put my daughter in her sisters bed(big sister was at grandma's for the night). Dallas got in the bed just fine, we gave kisses and hugs and said good night and turned off the lights and closed the door. I went into my daughters room to say prayers and tell her good night. I wasn't in there 3 mins. before he was screaming. I finished up in with my daughter and went in to tell him he was okay and to go to sleep. I did this 3 times and thankfully he finally calmed down and slept the rest the night just fine.

Since he is an only child he doesn't have sisters or girl toys around. He has become fascinated with my daughter's heels and purse! I am cracking up at this. My son doesn't even play with the heels (by his own choice not me stopping him). I am going to take a picture or Dallas in the heels with the purse and give it to my sister. Her redneck backwoods husband will really love that. He's the beer guzzling, wrestling watching, mud ridding type. The funny thing is my sister has turned like that too. See our mother who raised us both on her own was raised in California, so we didn't grow up in the boondocks (or at least not with that mentality). Our talk is southern but not like most people we live around. NOT THAT ANY OF THAT IS WRONG OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I Do Not think I am better than anyone. My point is that when we were growing up I never would have pictured my sister the way she is now.

Anyway we shall see how the heels and purse go over when mommy comes to get him.
Really wish I could go out and do something today. Tropical storm Faye is dropping some needed rain on us. Its pretty wet outside so playing outside is out. We are broke so going out isn't an option. Gas prices are still crazy(even though they are saying on the news "they are falling" Ha! not that I've noticed!).

I guess I will find something to do (not that with 4 kids+1 that will be hard).