I love my five nieces — all sisters ages 4 to 10. I love them because they are smart and funny, but also because they are crazy and even more devious than I could have imagined.

This story was told to me this weekend at the 9 year old’s birthday party by Sister-in-law.

(For reference, if you haven’t read about the girls before, for the sake of my blog I have nicknamed them 1 of 5, 2 of 5, and so on, relating to their birth order).

Apparently Fiance, who Sister-in-law is marrying next year and who is AWESOME, was at home with the girls and had gone into the bedroom to watch some TV while the younger girls (ages 4, 5, and 6) were in another bedroom watching TV.

The story was told to me as this, Fiance received a phone call from a friend on his cellphone and this was the conversation:

“Hey, whatchya up to?”

“Nothing much.”

“Watchin’ the girls?”

“Yep.”

“Going well?”

“Yep.”

“You sure about that?”

“Why? What do you mean?”

“Oh, just wanted to let you know that the two little ones are on the roof outside.”

“WHAT?!”

Fiance’s exclamation must have alerted the girls that they had been found out because 3 of 5 and 5 of 5 were crawling in the window when he entered the bedroom.

Fiance’s friend had been driving by when he saw the two on the roof and decided he’d better alert someone to their mischief.

Apparently 4 of 5 wasn’t out there, which is a good thing because she was already in enough trouble for telling a classmate at her preschool to “stop being such a dumbass,” the week before.

Incidentally, and I know I am biased, but these girls are some of the most polite children you would ever meet, which is probably why these stories surprise me so much and make me laugh so hard.

Now really: do these look like girls who would get into any trouble?

yeah, I thought so.