Then, after Rip Van Peter woke up, we jumped into the hot tub for some winter swimming. Sonia debuted a gorgeous new tankini that is unfortunately hidden in this photo.
After a wild dinner (and aren't all dinners with toddlers/preschoolers "wild"?), Uncle Corey whipped out a special adventure for the kids. They put on their superhero capes that I made earlier in the week and met with Corey for a mission briefing. He had drawn a map of the first floor of the house and drew a route they needed to take to find the ladybug night light that the nefarious Lady Cheetah had hidden.
Sonia is a budding Dora the Explorer fan, so she was very interested in the map.
Super Sonia (aka Super Sillious) led the way along the route (which took them under the kitchen table and around the couch to start). Super Charlotte (aka Captain Chaos) followed close behind.
Next, the little heroes had to pet Connie dog on their way through the family room.
Super Petey (aka some kind of cool name we have yet to come up with -- any suggestions?) lagged behind a little, but he made sure Connie got some love from him too.
There was some confusion when we got to the last step -- actually finding the ladybug night light. The younger superheroes took off on a wild goose chase up the stairs, but Captain Chaos figured out how to find the ladybug based on the map.
Super Sillious tried to convince us that upstairs was the place to be, but . . .
. . . Captain Chaos completed the mission and rescued the ladybug! Here, poor Charlotte was seriously asking me if Lady Cheetah was still here. No, I said, we were just pretending. She was still a little suspicious but dropped the subject.
Super Sillious immediately said, "let's do it AGAIN!" So Uncle Corey dutifully led the teeny superheroes through the route one more time. When they requested a third trip, we told them to come up with some other adventures upstairs. The situation degraded quickly and the kids soon needed to retreat to their fortresses of solitude for some super sleep.
Sonia and Erin drove home the next morning, and we missed them instantly! Charlotte is already planning new adventures for the superheroes when they are reunited. Peter has mentioned "See-Saw" (his name for Sonia) several times since she left, and I think he misses her too. Come back soon, guys!
2 comments:
Well. If you had told me you were going to get the hot tub working again, I wouldn't have moved. ;)
Those capes are awesome btw!
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