babysitting my lily and toto

november is finally here! it is quite the glorious fun filled month!  it is always busy and usually goes by too fast, but this year i'm thinking it will be SUPER great! there are so many wonderful things to look forward to! and that is awesome!  last night i watched chris and jihae's kiddos-they are certainly quite adorable and i never mind going to babysit cause they are always well behaved and so much fun!  i love that jihae always calls me "aunt aly"-i'm not even engaged to josh, but i guess that doesn't matter! guess i shouldn't worry about being an accepted member of the family eh? ha :) like the kids know the difference anyway!  we watched shark tale or something of the variety, not really sure-it was about fish and sharks and i'm pretty sure will smith was in it, but whatever! it was cute and fun!  the kids are hilarious with their halloween candy-they each got to pick one to eat as dessert after dinner and lily pulled out this tiny bag of candy corn with the craziest look of puzzlement on her face, i tried super hard not to laugh! but it was just too cute! she looked at it then looked at me, then looks at it again while holding it out away from her with two fingers and says, "WHAT is it?" as only three year old lilster can do. when i told her it was candy corn she just raised an eyebrow at me, so i opened the package and let her try them, she studied them for a moment then ate one, then poured the rest (like 7 candy corn-definitely not enough for a bite lol) out and counted them all and lined them up-i think it's safe to say she is not afraid of the strangeness of candy corn anymore!  then toph, good ol tophy, he pulls out a sucker with great pride and says "i want this one!" and hold onto it with both hands lol then he just holds it for a while and when i took the paper off of the little ball on a stick he looks at it with this HUGE grin and wide eyes and holds it out to me like it is a new invention that could change the universe. and then he just sat there in his chair with it for a long time and looked at it, and smiled at it, and held it out to me, and told me that he had a sucker. i think after a good 45 minutes he actually finally licked the thing-such a little goose!  he also showed me his tattoos last night-such a funny little guy, and he was SO excited to take a bath ha. lily had a super headache and almost made me cry when she asked me to please not wash her hair because it hurt :( poor baby, so i put her to bed and she was gone in like ten minutes! and since toph was still a little rowdy i kept him playing in the bath for a little hoping lily would be asleep by the time i had him bathed-when i put a towel on him and pulled him out of the tub he wraps the towel under his arms  and stiffens them close to his sides so i lifted him out to by his shoulders and like a super hero he goes "TOPPPHHHEEERRRR!!!!" hahah it was the funniest thing ever! i almost dropped him right back in the water cause it was so unexpected but it was definitely a highlight of my day-kids are SO amazing and so incredibly funny, they are definitely full of surprises and i love it! the house felt super quiet and lonely (i was at josh's mom's house for all of this babysitting) and it was weird to be there without josh, i kept expecting him to walk upstairs or something!  the only real noise was callie kitty SNORING in the chair next to me and the "little" kitten playing "attack the mat" in front of me on the floor. it was rather relaxing!  then chris and jihae came back from bible study and i got some girl chat time with jihae! i super love her-she has always made me feel SO welcome from day 1 and she genuinely cares about people, she is such a sweet sweeet lady, and i love her husband too! they are so awesome! i can't wait to hang with them when joshy bear comes home! while i was there i told them about "operation surprise joshua" and they LOVE it! they are my super secret secret keepers and they are so excited too! they think it is a super awesome idea-and they are always awesome about not telling, they are not the gossiping type so i'm not worried about a slip! plus there are only 9 more days! they even gave me 20 bucks for babysitting and said to use it toward my girls day! yahoo! thakns guys, you are super sweet! and i super love you a lot! i can't wait to be a real aunt to your kids! and jihae-you are the best unofficial-almost-future-sister-in-law ever!