All-nighter with my Niecey-Poo

I was so thrilled when my sister asked if I would be willing to LC-sit Saturday night! I haven't had many opportunities to be around here since she's been born so I was really really excited.
My sister and her friend RJ dropped my niecey-poo off around 11:15am. We visited for a bit and once my sis left, we played and played, and ate and napped, and played, and played, and ate, and shopped, and ate and played and then did NOT sleep :-)

Uncle Taylor really wanted to show off our sweetie pie visitor so we decided to do our typical Sunday shopping on Saturday night with LC. Prior to leaving my sister had called to check on LC and told me that she typically takes a long nap in the late afternoon. Well it was already early evening and she recommended that if she tried to fall asleep after 6pm, to only let her sleep for a bit so she would fall asleep around 10-11pm (way past my usual bedtime...I'm such an old-timer!)

Well we headed in to town around 6pm and she slept a little on the way. Taylor was determined to get her a jacket because of the weather and she didn't have a long sleeve shirt of coat- so to Target we went. Uncle Taylor picked out the cutest little outfit. He changed her in the car after we picked up a few other items on our list. Unfortunately I picked up the 9month size since she is almost 12 months old, but it was WAY too big, so I ran back into Target and exchanged it for the 6 month. Uncle Taylor also wanted to buy something for her cute little locks, so HEEE picked out some cute little bows. Once we got her all dolled up, we headed to Safeway. We did our grocery shopping, picked up some dinner and headed home.

Cute Bow Uncle Taylor bought me

Cute outfit Uncle Taylor picked

9:30 rolled around and she finally appeared to be getting sleepy so we mellowed down the play time and tried some relaxing time. (that didn't really work) Around 10 or probably a little after, I took her to bed with me, but she was NOT having it. I think we over-exhausted the poor thing! Not to mention she was in a new place. So finally at close to 11 Taylor suggested we take her for a ride. This did the trick. We drove around and she was OUT. We laid her down and I hit the sac too. At about 1:30am, she woke up and could not stop crying so I brought her to bed with us. She slept really rough and woke up every thirty minutes or so. I haven't watched a young baby over night since I was a teenager! So finally at 4:30am when she woke up and didn't appear to want to go back to sleep, I got up, made her a bottle, turned on Bee Movie and she fell asleep. Although she still tossed and turned, she did sleep until 8:10am. She woke up happy as could be...but it truly felt like we got barely any sleep!

This morning we played and played, took a bath, played some more and she went home with her mommy. It was so fun to have her around! We are looking forward to one day becoming parents, but in the meantime, spoiling other little ones and being able to nap after they are gone is also quite satisfying!

Thanks LC for sleeping over with Auntie Kari. I am thankful your Mommy asked if you could over.
Can't wait til next time! Love yah