Use The Force, Tyler.

While I have been home between semesters, I have been unable to get a job. So I have been babysitting as much as I possibly can. A lot of the time I get tired and have the kids play with their toys and with each other because I run out of the energy to play with them. Yesterday was different. Yesterday was epic.

I babysat three kids yesterday. They. Were. Awesome. The oldest, her name is Alyssa...so that just makes her awesome right there cause she has a cool name.

The youngest, Austen, he's three years old. I played with him while the two older kids were playing upstairs. He and I stayed downstairs because he was chasing the fly that was buzzing around the room. He would point to it while running around in circles after the little bug that was just out of reach. After a little while of this, I called him over to me and told him I was going to take a picture of him. So I held up my phone and he gives me a huge cheesy smile. I didn't even take a picture at first because I was laughing too hard at how stinkin cute he was. Then I finally took the picture and showed it to him. He pointed to it and said, "Cute!"

The middle kid, Tyler, well he's just great. At first he was a little quiet, but then when he got used to me he just wanted to play all day. He played by himself for a little while and then he came up to me and said, "You wanna play lightsabers?" How can you resist a cute little five year old boy who wants to play lightsabers?? So of course I said yes. Before we started, I thought this would probably only last about five minutes before he would want to play with something else...that was not the case. Our battle probably lasted a good half hour. I had the red lightsaber so I was the bad guy, and he had the blue lightsaber so he was the good guy. Let's just say it was an epic battle. We battled around the entire downstairs floor. He'd pretend to cut off one of my legs and then I'd pretend to cut off one of his arms. Throughout the battle, Tyler would thrust his hand to the air in front of me like they do in the Star Wars movies and say, "Force!" The first time he did this I didn't really know what to do...but I quickly caught on. When he did this a second time I mirrored his image and we would stood in front of each other, lightsabers in one hand, and using The Force with the other hand. After a minute or two, both of us would fall down because The Force was just too great for both of us. We did this many more times, and I wished someone had filmed it and sent it to George Lucas. He would've been proud.