Uncle Dav and Auntie Mie baby sit

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Saturday night Dav and I had the privilege to baby-sit for Julia and Tyler. Overnight! I'm so proud to be trusted with such a task. It was a for Yahoo's big Christmas party, and since it was down south, Ian and Izumi wanted to be able to stay late and not worry about driving back.

Ian and Izumi seemed worried that the kids would give us a hard time, but they were so easy! Dav played with them as I got dinner ready, and cleaned afterwards. He's so good with them - showing cool videos he had on his Mac, engaging them in whatever conversation they were excited to yap about, playing a bit of rough and tumble (Julia made Dav help her "slide" down her mattress like 30 times!).

I was very impressed with big brother Tyler. When I served the wrong fork and spoon (Julia has Hello Kitty and Tyler has some robot set), Tyler washed them and fished out the correct ones. When I couldn't locate his special cereal bowl, Tyler said, "It’s OK. I can use this one." When asking what video to watch, Tyler cleverly convinced Julia to watch Harry Potter since I hadn't seen it yet. But when Julia got bored with Harry Potter and wanted to change it, Tyler didn't resist (he silently sighed as if understanding he shouldn't battle Julia, but was disappointed she wasn't into Harry Potter). In the morning, when Julia called to me at 6:30am (!!), I went to their room to find a smiling Tyler who said, "Yeah, I've been awake, but waiting." He then proposed that he would read Cat in the Hat out loud, so I could sneak back to bed for another half hour. What a thoughtful nephew!!

And Julia was a big girl too. Several times I could tell she wanted to cry about something...but she held back, knowing she wasn't supposed to. And she went to bed all by herself, and didn't show any insecurities about mommy and daddy being gone (I remember myself tearing up when I spent the night at my aunt's at age 10 or so, missing my mom!!). As usual, she was a cute princess ... with funky Yahoo socks to boot.

Anyhow, it was very fun. Most of all though, Thank You to Dav for being a trooper too! It would have been much harder since he was the true entertainer to them. Kiss to Dav!