Summer With the Nieces

These are my nieces on our first summer day together, 2009. I took them to my high school and they helped me get the last of my things out of my classroom. Then I took them bowling, to lunch, and to a movie. It was a lot of fun. These videos are pretty bad in quality, and apparently, I can't rotate them, but I wanted to try to show you their different techniques. The almost-8 year old had a very unorthodox delivery, but managed to "win" and get a lot of strikes. She kind of hurls it from the side. Apparently, she's very good at Wii bowling, as well. I always enjoy my nieces. Every now and then, the older girl would just out of the blue tell me she loved me. They always say "please" and "thank you" and never expect much when they come over, but to hang out. They always offer to help me in whatever I am doing. And when they fight, they usually make up on their own, but they rarely fight when they are with us. I am going to miss them when they move to LA this summer, but I am also very excited for their new life in SoCal. My brother once told me he worried about not being around and how they would turn out without him. I think he would be so proud of them. I hope I can be as good a parent as he was and my sister-in-law is and have children that are as kind, thoughtful and respectful.