An Evening Well Spent

I'm very new at being a full-time aunt, rather than a twice-a-year-I'll-take-you-for-icecream-every-day aunt. It's summer holidays so my niece and nephew have spent a few nights sleeping over at my parents' house this week. Too bad I've been working 11 days straight and getting home dead tired!

Tonight however, I got off at 6 and was able to spend the whole evening with them. My nephew was right away on the ipad games all night, and unfortunately rather than wrestle it from him and having two of them to deal with (which 100% of the time leads to bickering, pinching, fighting, and toys breaking) I just let him do what he enjoys while I drew pictures with my niece. Things were going fine and dandy when we were drawing animals, mine were very cartoony but nothing to be ashamed of. But then Kaylie insisted we draw pictures of each other. So we did, and both spent ages trying to perfect it, and while what she produced, I'll keep forever, what I produced, I suspect will go straight into the fireplace when her mom gets her hands on it:

The funniest part was when Kaylie said to me "Is it ok if I draw your freckles so it looks more like you?" Sure Kaylie, sure they are freckles. Not age spots on my poorly-taken-care-of-skin. Not at all.

Then she drew a picture of her brother. The likeness is uncanny:

Oh no! I've forgotten my sister's rule on not having her kids' pictures on the internet! I better make some alterations: