Day 11 - I Wouldn't Feel This Honored If Asked to Dine With the Ambassador!

Okay, you ladies out there can guess from the title what happened today.  Brook, Levi's mother, came down to ask for what she called a huge favor.  Seems some emergency meeting had come up at their university, that both she and Darius had to attend.  The mixed snow/rain was coming down sideways because of the wind, and Levi has the sniffles.  Could she impose on me to stay with Levi for an hour?  After hugging her neck, not literally, I assured her that it would not be an imposition.  I told her I had wanted to offer my services, but had not wanted to offend them since they had just met us and there had been no time for her to run a background check with Interpol or anything.  She laughed and assured me again that she would never bother me except in an emergency.  We will have to have a little talk about my broad definition of emergency as relates to babysitting - lunch with the girls, broken fingernail, etc.

Levi and I had a wonderful time, except that he had the nerve to fall asleep on me.    He is only 9 months old, but seems quite advanced according to what I remember from the infant /toddler scales.  Do 9 month olds usually imitate feeding toy animals with a spoon?  I left assuring them that Del and I would expect them to have a date night quite soon.  They asked if they could pay me.  Of course, I said no, but that I would be delighted to pay them anytime they wanted to go out.

For the rest of the day we both worked on our courses.  We had planned to explore, but the weather was just not cooperative. Still better than Ohio, but not what I would want to slog around in, too wet and windy.

Have a great weekend, everyone.  My fingers are crossed for more fireworks if the weather improves.