Cousins and the Zoo

My sister, Robin, brought up her girls last weekend. Mairin, 6, and Lexie, 9, were lots of fun to be around... we had a full weekend including a trip to the zoo, two parks, an ice cream shop, and a candy store that was going out of business (which of course means you just have to buy an insane amount of candy). Some funny occurrences of the weekend:

• Lexie asking if she could read to Charley and asking, "Does she understand human?"
• Mairin telling her daddy on the phone that "we will leave as soon as Aunt Boo stops the nursery" (stops nursing).
• Lexie telling me about her daddy's chiractor (chiropractor).
• Aunt Boo (me) offering to pay the girls a nickel for every pine cone they pick up, and then forking out 16 bucks twenty minutes later (yes...they picked up 320 pine cones in twenty minutes. Actually, they picked up more, but I told them we were stopping at 8 bucks a piece).
• An elephant at the zoo taking his trunk and cleaning out the other elephants rear...and then eating it. I didn't witness it, but the girls and Uncle Donald told me allll about it.

I'm so glad they came up for a visit! I can't believe school is starting back up so soon!