Summer Dispatch #8: Niblings
Jul. 22nd, 2022 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wrote_and_writMy work visa arrived today, four days ahead of the estimated delivery date, so I got all my paperwork sent off to Seattle. Fingers crossed that I get my residence visa back in less than the predicted two weeks!
Choosing to mail the paperwork instead of rushing to Singapore means I did have extra time to spend with the niblings. They really are hilarious little humans. I crocheted a trio of amigurumi potatoes last week and left them out in the dining room. Which means that they were destined to be nephew magnets. Aden ran in, made a beeline for the table, and said, "Oh! What are these!?"
Of course I gave him and Ilaria the potatoes.
Not to brag, but Ilaria is kind of obsessed with me. She accidentally hurt my SIL's feelings as they drove over because she said, "Mommy, I don't like you, I love Auntie Deb!" To which SIL said, "You can like and love more than one person." 😐 Ilaria loves hanging out in my room, especially on my bed, which has a nice squashy mattress and tons of pillows. Today I told her my iPad battery was dead so we couldn't watch Duggee. No worries, Auntie Deb! She spent half an hour telling me she was a bunny, which involved wiggling her butt as if she had a fluffy tail and then launching herself at a stack of pillows. And whenever SIL would hang out too long, she would say, "Mommy, you can leave us now." 😐😐
Listen, I am THRILLED to be the favorite auntie. There are three of us, and I am clearly the best. And Ilaria is only 2, so she doesn't mean to hurt her mom, so I'm not going to gloat, at least not to SIL.
After a mostly chill visit (I cut off any talk about my brother, who is Making Choices, which are Not My Business), I got the kids out to the car without throwing a fit by humming "Flight of the Bumblebee" and bribing them with lollipop. Because I am the Best Aunt.
Choosing to mail the paperwork instead of rushing to Singapore means I did have extra time to spend with the niblings. They really are hilarious little humans. I crocheted a trio of amigurumi potatoes last week and left them out in the dining room. Which means that they were destined to be nephew magnets. Aden ran in, made a beeline for the table, and said, "Oh! What are these!?"
Of course I gave him and Ilaria the potatoes.
Not to brag, but Ilaria is kind of obsessed with me. She accidentally hurt my SIL's feelings as they drove over because she said, "Mommy, I don't like you, I love Auntie Deb!" To which SIL said, "You can like and love more than one person." 😐 Ilaria loves hanging out in my room, especially on my bed, which has a nice squashy mattress and tons of pillows. Today I told her my iPad battery was dead so we couldn't watch Duggee. No worries, Auntie Deb! She spent half an hour telling me she was a bunny, which involved wiggling her butt as if she had a fluffy tail and then launching herself at a stack of pillows. And whenever SIL would hang out too long, she would say, "Mommy, you can leave us now." 😐😐
Listen, I am THRILLED to be the favorite auntie. There are three of us, and I am clearly the best. And Ilaria is only 2, so she doesn't mean to hurt her mom, so I'm not going to gloat, at least not to SIL.
After a mostly chill visit (I cut off any talk about my brother, who is Making Choices, which are Not My Business), I got the kids out to the car without throwing a fit by humming "Flight of the Bumblebee" and bribing them with lollipop. Because I am the Best Aunt.
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Date: 2022-07-23 02:39 pm (UTC)😂
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Date: 2022-07-23 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-07-24 12:39 am (UTC)And so you should be! ^_^
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Date: 2022-07-25 12:50 am (UTC)