Saturday night at the inlaws

It was Lenny's nephews birthday party on Saturday and I was in cute heaven. It was Jaiden's first birthday and I have to say he is the cutest thing I have ever seen. Everyone says he looks just like Lenny and not so much like his dad:

Awww....I could've stared at him forever but he turned around and lightly bit me!

I was excited when Jaiden's mom, Maria, asked me to look after him before the party. I was charged with looking after him for an hour...only an hour...while Lenny's parents cooked and Maria drove to Burnaby to pick up her sister. Maria knows how uneasy I am with the really wee ones and therefore said to me "don't worry, just make sure he doesn't climb the stairs". And she left me with the task to change him into his white linen suit after 45 minutes (she didn't want him getting it dirty before people started to show up).

Somehow aware of his mom's directions of staying away from the stairs, Jaiden decided to rebel. I was like a video on replay. Chase Jaiden to the stairs, pick him up, drop him off in the living room, chase him to the stairs and so on. I tried holding him but he got antsy and wanted to explore. So I put him on this plastic horse:

But he kept trying to put his finger in the socket to his right. And wow, after looking at this picture, I notice he's surrounded by hazards. Mom material, I am not.

Toys were everwhere, so next, I put him in this mini-atv and ran him up and down the main floor of the house. I was dying of laughter because Jaiden would push this button and you'd hear "meep meep". It was hilarious...but it got annoying after a while so I called Lenny from outside (he was bbqing) and asked him to come in and help me change him. I was warned that he would start crying but we toughed it out...although as soon as he started crying, his grandparents came running from the kitchen to pick him up and didn't let us finish.

The grandparents answer to his tears: blare Portuguese music REALLY loud and dance around with him in your arms - with only one sock on and no shirt. As annoyed as I was, I have to say that Jaiden was in latin heaven. And it was really touching.

And so there ends my hour alone with the cutest kid ever. The rest of the night, I couldn't even get close to Jaiden with all the family crowding him. But I'm sure he cherished our time together like I did :)