Aunt Jami is a Best Friend!

We had the wonderful opportunity to have Jami visit our home for FOUR MONTHS!!!

Her flight was rescheduled due to her terrible kidney infections.  By the time she was feeling better (luckily right before Christmas) Scarlett told Miss Laura "My Aunt Jami is peeing yellow and clear now, not red!  So she gets to come to Michigan!"  haha!

Jami, Jake and I watched the entire Merlin series on Netflix (BBC).  We really liked it.  Well the twirls call Scarlett "guysis" - not sure why, it's just how they say her name.  It really bothers Scarlett.  Jami noticed that it's the name of one of the guys on our show so she told Scarlett is was a superhero name.  Since then Scarlett's been just fine with her nickname.

The twirls call Jami "Siggy" which I mentioned before, we have no idea why.  But I think it comes from "Sicky!"  haha!

The girls had a ton of fun playing with Aunt Jami.

One night we were just eating dinner and Scarlett said "I have an announcement!  Aunt Jami's lady parts are allergic to toilet paper!"  bwahahahaha!!!!!!  So random and hilarious!

We got a babysitter and took Jami to see the new Star Wars movie on opening day!

We're not sure exactly what Scarlett thinks of Jami.  Every once in a while she'll say something to Jami that makes us think that Scarlett doesn't think Jami is an adult.  Like it "Wow Aunt Jami, you are growing up so much!  You opened your own cup and wiped your own bum!"  (wiping our own bums has been a big thing in our house lately).

Aunt Jami has the best ideas!

Craft time...

Jaide is so cute.  Whenever she accomplishes something and makes herself proud she'll say "I did it!" and lift her arms over her head.  "I did it!"

The girls got to color a lot with Aunt Jami cause she likes to color too!

Jami and I were having a "sisterly discussion" at the table.  Scarlett told us "girls, girls, girls, you need to calm down."  haha!

While Jami was here Scarlett confiscated all the light up toys and hid them from her.  She was really worried about her seizures.  Those two have a special bond.

Siena was such a stinker.  She would say "Kiss Siggy?"  As Jami would lean in she would yell "GO AWAY!"  Then laugh.  Little stinker.  But eventually she'd give her those kisses.

I usually force the girls to wear matching jammies (I have a problem, I know).  But Jami let them pick out whatever they wanted.  We found out that Siena likes two piece jammies and Jaide likes footie jams.  Jami took this picture on St. Patrick's Day.  She thought it was ironic that they were all wearing different holidays, but not the actual holiday it was!

Jami is a girl after my own heart - lots of couch snuggles.

We took Jami out to dinner before she left.  Red Robin, Yuuuuum!  The girls did pretty good.  We had the waitress come sing to Scarlett for her birthday.  She loved it!  And Siena was chasing Jaide (behind me) in order to wipe her face off.  haha!

Scarlett said to Jami on the last day she was here "This is the last day you get to hear the word 'pouchette.'"  What?!  Hahaha!  I have never heard her say that before.  What a silly girl!

Four months with Jami here was fabulous.  But it really sucked when she left.  I don't think I could have survived such a difficult pregnancy without her.  The girls really got used to having all the extra attention.  Between the two of us the girls were always entertained.  So you can imagine the difficult transition it was after she left.  On the way home from the airport Scarlett cried and cried and cried.  I couldn't console her so I just did the only thing I could think - I wrote down what she was saying so I could blog it!  (I got her to calm down for ice cream with sprinkles).  This is what she said while she was crying: "I miss Aunt Jami.  She's a special friend.  She's the most special friend of all.  I wish she could stay.  A few weeks is too long [I told her that we would see her in a few weeks... slightly stretching the truth].  I want her to go with me where I go.  *crying for 20 min*  Mom, I have some serious boogers.  I want to send her a letter to tell her how much I miss her.  I really really really miss her right now.  Aunt Jami's so super smart and we really really miss her.  Aunt Jami's so special to me.  It's not the same without Aunt Jami.  Aunt Jami's so perfect.  My bedroom's creepy now cause Aunt Jami kept it so safe.  I like Aunt Jami the most.  I love all of her.  I love her too much that I want to draw her and send her the picture." and on and on.............

The next day Scarlett did better, but the twirls asked several times "Where'd Siggy go?" or "Siggy tummy hurt, Siggy go home."  It's been a few weeks since she left and they still ask where she is every now and then.

I told Scarlett that since Aunt Jami gave her that pink bear, if she misses her she could squeeze it and it would be like a hug from her.

Jami sure left a wonderful impression on our family that will be missed.  But I think we changed her as well.  My mom told me that the other day she told Jami "I'm going upstairs to change the laundry around, I'll be back."  Jami replied "And I'll be Beethoven."  bwahahaha!!!!  Back/Bach!  That's a Jake joke right there!