an ode to good babysitters

tandy, i'm sorry, i have to tell the world that my son is in love with you. :) he says, "go on your errand NOW, daddy," so that we will leave him alone with her. and, "tandy's FAVORITE." and, tonight, "tandy drew a circle around the john deere buck . i want tandy to BUY ME the john deere buck. " (if you don't know what this is, read my post deere desires from a couple of days ago.) my advice, tandy? get out now while you still can. he wrapped us all around his little finger long ago. :)
(apparently when tandy told him she couldn't buy it for him because she didn't have any money, he just said, "yes, you can! you can BUY ME the buck!!!")

so tandy watched the kids so we could go out for a birthday celebration. sitting on the patio at chuy's and drinking margaritas is one of the highlights of my existence. (well, maybe that's a little exaggeration.) (but only a little.)

of course, poor girl, we failed to tell her that sunny's big surprise birthday gift, a small ride-on spiderman 4-wheeler, was in sailor's closet (this is to placate him until we can take out a second mortgage for the john deere buck.) i mean, honestly, we never even go into sailor's room! but apparently tandy and sunny do, because he found the box. "a big box! a spiderman box!" and an urgent text to jon from tandy asking WHAT was in sailor's closet, because now sunny won't stop talking about it.

what a funny night. and there was a walk to the park, and a bit of a storm, and jon doing last minute birthday shopping for me at walmart (thanks ever so). sometimes life is just - funny. (sorry. i should pull out my thesaurus here.)
and good.
funny and good. :)
night.

(by the way, we THINK sunny doesn't really know what's in the box. we've told him it has disappeared until his birthday. maybe by then tandy will have bought him the buck, so we can take back the spiderman atv anyway.)