The kids are done school and they have landed here because their Mom and Dad are working. Aunt Liz somehow, conveniently winds up with all three of them this morning and the story goes a little something like this...

I start out entertaining them on the computer. They love that Barbie Girl video by Aqua and Wannabe by The Spice Girls. It's always fun and games with aunt Lizzy anyway I decide I'm hungry and head to the kitchen for my cereal. I'm pouring my cereal and they spot me. I've noticed they never leave my side when I'm babysitting.

As Dora plays in the background on the TV I hear,

"Lizzy, I'm hungry I haven't eaten breakfast yet."

Lea pipes up never to be out done by her older sister,

"I'm hungry too, I haven't eaten breakfast either!"

Jesse says, "I want toast, the cinnamon kind with the crust cut off and then cut into four little squares."

Lea adds, " Yea me too. I want the same thing. Cut off my crust."

I'm wondering who the hell taught these kids they needed toast served like they were living at Buckingham Palace? My cereal bowl goes to the side and I start opening a new bag of bread, pulling out the butter and small plates.

Enter Grandma. She pops in from the store with a container of plastic dogs for Lea because Jesse already has some and a coloring book for Jesse. Christmas is in three days, right? World War III ensues. Jesse grabs the new container of small plastic dogs and insists she is the rightful owner of the new container because the other container she has been playing with on and off all morning is really her sisters and she was just borrowing them. The tears flow and the grabbing and snatching from one another starts to look like one of those street fights on YouTube. Aunt Lizzy jumps in the middle of a 7 year old and a 5 year old and begins peace talks the likes of which have never been seen or heard in the middle east.

These kids are an awful lot for this old spinster! Of course, I managed to snap some pictures before the mayhem started because they are just so darned cute. :)