A Job Well Done

After a lazy start to our morning Grandpa called and said he needed our help to get one of his jobs done. We packed a bag of toys and away we went for a day on the job. Thankfully we were just helping him get a vacant rent house ready so the girls would be able to have full range of the house without really getting in any one's way. I set them up to play in an empty bedroom but that of course didn't last very long. There was way too much going on for them not to be interested in the real job at hand. They worked with us all day scrubbing, caulking, and fixing doors. They really got excited when it was time to paint. We told them there was only one paintbrush hoping to deter them on to something else. It worked for Brylie who just headed out to the backyard to pick flowers, but Katy was determined to help me paint. I turned around just in time to catch her trying to stick Grandpa's broom in the paint bucket. "I wanna paint too" she said. Then the girls found a stack of trim and wood lying in the corner of one bedroom so they began to "build". They probably built a dozen different things. By the time we grabbed a late lunch the girls were both EXHAUSTED. After all they had been hard at work all morning. We decided to call it a day and head home for nap time. Kaytlyn fell asleep right away on the way home. Of course once we got home she had already had her little cat nap and there was no way she was going down for another nap. So the two of us watched Max & Ruby and Caillou while Brylie snoozed. It was definitely an eventful day for two sweet little girls. Poor Katy was so wore out that she fell asleep in her swing outside while we were waiting for Daddy to come home from work. Brylie said she can't wait to help Grandpa again. If only I could get her to help around our own house I'd have it made. Oh well, I guess that's part of being 4....deciding where and when you wanna work.