Jason's Nephew Michael came to visit for the past two weeks. We don't get to spend a lot of one on one time with Michael. He is the oldest grandchild on Jason's side of the family and 7years older than the next grandchild. So he pretty much was the only one for awhile and then the rest of the boys in the family got married and started having kids ( a bunch of girls!) So poor Michael never had cousins he really grew up with on the Raleigh side.
Well since Michael is 12 we thought it would be fun to host him for a couple weeks this summer. So he flew out here to California all by himself and he hung out with his grumpy, way pregnant aunt Kristen for a few weeks. Most the time I could tell he was pretty bored or not having fun, but I tried to plan fun things to do like go to the park, and library, the beach, a play date, our wards picnic in the park, we went out to lunch a few days, universal studios, we went to the griffith observatory, and the very last day Jason went with him to Six Flags. I'll have to admit that entertaining a 12 year old is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I give Kailah some dirt and she's good for an hour. lol! Luckily our neighbors had a play station they let us borrow so Michael could kill time while I was getting things done around the house.
I am so glad that I still have 10 years until I have to start worrying about taking care of a teenager, cause I definitely don't know what I'm doing right now. But at least Michael is old enough that he could take care of himself and clean up and get ready for bed by himself or make his own breakfast and lunch, and that's something I am still doing for a two year old, so I guess every stage has it's pros and cons and each stage is hard in different ways.
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