Auntie Dana Needs Her Inhaler

One minute you're writing a blog post 

about taking a blogging break to clean out your garage,

and the next minute you're on a plane to Toronto 

to go hang out with a cute redhead.

Yup... I'm writing this blog post all the way from Toronto, 

where my Cool Sister and her husband live.

Why?

She happened to have a baby boy last week.

Her second.

When Grandma got sick and couldn't hang out with them like planned,

I was next in line to help her carve out some snuggle time!

With big brother only eighteen months old,

and dad with a job to go back to,

Aunty Dana was needed to help with the transition.

I figured this would be an easy gig.

We would bond my little nephew and I.

We could play dolls together,

and have tea party's...

maybe even sit quietly and do some simple crafts.

Just as I was about to pull out the sparkle glue,

my Cool Sister asked if I wanted to see 

where Little Nephew liked to go for a daily walk.

I guess Little nephew likes to go outside every day.

In fact my Cool sister mentioned he could stay outside all day if he were allowed.

This was going to be great.

I could take a nice lovely stroll with my little red headed nephew,

and for the first time in my life I wouldn't end up looking like the nanny.

Someone might even think he was mine.

I could just see it now...

Me holding his hand, as we walked slowly and quietly along the park.

We could even collect some leaves for a nice craft at home.

So Dad gave me the tour.

As we were on our way,

I realized very quickly that the term "walk" 

was used very loosely by my sister and her husband.

Once we turned the corner 

Little nephew was off faster than a formula one car on it's last lap.

One of Little nephews favourite past times was...

a game of chase in the park;

around and around and around.

Followed by a run through the leaves in the park.

Around and around and around.

Umm... just a minute here?

Aunty Dana  h.a.s  t.o.  r.u.n?

My I'm now thinking "not" Cool sister failed to  mention "running" on the phone!

What about the craft table?

What did they mean he will run away if I didn't catch him?

What about the tea party?

What did they mean, he's a boy.

No tea party?

No sparkle glue?

My Brother in law was kind enough to continue the run walk without me

while I went to find my inhaler.

Thankfully, I had packed it in case of an emergency.

This, I realized... was going to be a little tougher gig than I had originally thought.

xoxo,

These sweet shots of my nephew and his dad will be shared with 

My3Boybarians for Sweet Shot Tuesday. 

Click here to check out all of the wonderful photos!

This post will also be linking up to Project Alicia's Wordish Wednesday.