Because only the fittest survive

My little cousins came over on saturday, the youngest of them being an adorable four year old boy. He is not like an energizer battery. He’s ten energizer batteries packed and overcharged! Being the awesome person i am, i entertained him the whole day. But it wasn’t going to be easy so i devised a plan.

I had a few objectives. One was that since it was a saturday and i had to book in that night because of duty, i needed to schedule some time for myself to do packing etc. The other was to watch some tv and use the computer a little. The third was to make sure he didn’t feel neglected. Tough right? I know.

So the early part of the day i got him to warm up to me and he started showing me his ways. He was watching tv one minute and he’d be dragging my dad’s golf clubs around the house the next. So i quickly did my packing while my mom and grandma played with him then used my pc and entertained him at the same time. Which failed because he kept pressing at the keys which made carry him upside down and running around the house to amuse us both. So i stopped and started to try and tire him out while having fun.

I had decided the only way i was going to keep him under control and have him have fun was to keep him occupied. First he insisted on going to my room which is on the second level. So i got him going up and down the stairs chasing me four to five times, up and down, up and down. After we both got bored of that, I brought him, his two sisters and my mom, yes my mom, to the playground.

There it began. My plan to tire him out was to start. He insisted on playing the monkey bars but the poor boy’s arms are to weak to swing from bar to bar. So i carried him leaving some weight on his arms and having him kick me repeatedly to get to the bar. And he insisted on doing it no less than five times! Then we all proceeded to have lotsa other fun there. Oh yeah, my mom actually did the balancing thing and she was really scared which was damn funny. Haha

On the way home i thought it’d be fun to have him chase me home so he did and within 10 meters of my block he had enough. He was too tired to go on so he climbed into my arms and i carried him home. There i was proud that i was one of the first in the family to have him under control while having so much fun!

My plan to tire him out worked, but i think it worked too well. After washing up and having little tidbits, he fell asleep on the couch having been drained out. Anddddddd so did I! Hahaha Turns out, tiring him out tired me out too. And we both lay fast asleep on the two couches taking over the living room being the only two men in the house. Both knocked out. I woke up to him waking up with his dazed look and droopy eyes. I find it amusing really. Army boy getting shagged out by a four year old. Haha. It was a nice Saturday. I think I’d make for the world’s best dad for a day.

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