The Favorite Aunt

I'm lucky enough to get to watch my niece, Evie, and my nephew, Isaac, while their mom works in the afternoons. That gives me lots of time to indoctrinate them, and my recent project has been teaching Ike, who is nearly 2, to say that I'm his favorite aunt. It's clearly true, because he is very cooperative when it comes to going down for his nap. Whereas it takes Julie hours to get him to bed at night, in the afternoon I just tuck him in, give him a kiss, and he turns over and goes to sleep. This afternoon before I even got him tucked in he said, "Gimme a kiss!" It melted my heart.