Uncle Marc's Day Out

Marc rarely gets hilighted on my blog, so I thought today he'd get his moment. Marc enjoys having Carsyn around with Luke, and even took them to inflatable fun land (all those inflatable jumpy things/slides, etc) about a month ago on his own to celebrate the end of the school year. Today Brenda and I were planning to go to Austin to a scrapbook class, and Marc suggested to me that she bring Carsyn over while we were gone to play. We ended up going out to their house last night to swim, and decided to have Carsyn come home with us and spend the night, then stay here all day today. Well, Marc was on his own with them from 11:30-5:00ish. He chose to take them to feed the ducks and to the playground downtown. While they were out, he took them to McAlister's for lunch, along with Mia. He was trying to order for them, but they were running all over the place. Next thing he knew, Carsyn pushed Luke to the ground and he was curled up screaming on the floor. About this time, Marc told the person at the counter to just cancel his order. So he took them outside, and Luke was now crying because he didn't want to leave, and then Mia started to cry too. So, they came home and had pb&j for lunch. I give him a lot of credit for first of all, suggesting Carsyn come over knowing he'd have all 3 kids for the day, secondly, taking them out to the park, and thirdly, attempting lunch out at somewhere besides McDonald's! And this is all around nap time, when the two were up late last night, and up early today. I told Brenda to ask Carsyn what happened and I guess Marc is a liar, because Carsyn claims ( and Brenda said her daughter NEVER lies!) that Marc wouldn't let them eat, and Luke was crying because his stomach hurt because he had to poop. Then Luke told me they didn't eat because Marc had no money - and I found out that's what Marc had to tell him to get him to leave!! I didn't want to forget this moment, and felt Marc was due some credit for being a brave dad/uncle, knowing the kids were tired, and Mia has been super fussy all week! And after all that, when I got home, he took Luke out to play baseball, played board games with him, and now they're off to DQ for a treat. I think he deserves a hand!