SIL likes to "drop by" unexpectedly now that we have our baby. She never came near us before. Earlier we were eating dinner in the kitchen when our four year old nephew appeared outside the patio doors, staring in. SIL emerged a moment later - she'd let herself in the side gate because front door was locked. We let them in, and SIL and nephew basically sat on the baby's play mat and played with the baby toys for half an hour. The baby sat with them for a while then crawled back over to me (washing up dishes, open plan kitchen diner so I was one side of the room and SIL and nephew other) just to set the scene, we have part of the "diner" area of the kitchen diner barricaded behind one of those extendable play pen room divider things, and we have the play mat and all the toys in there, plus an indoor baby/toddler climbing thing, which nephew is obsessed with.
SIL had her back to me the whole time and barely spoke. DH disappeared because he finds his sister overbearing and her son is spirited. Spirited nephew threw a tantrum and they left. That was it.
Baby was trying to crawl up my leg and I was trying to stop the dog eating the rest of our interrupted roast dinner, so I was too focused on being polite and not rolling my eyes and groaning, but they're away now, DH is bathing baby, and actually it's just sunk in that she quite literally came in and sat down and started playing with the toys without barely uttering a word to us, beyond the first "hi how are you, we were just passing by?"
I'm now doubting what happened, wondering if I've picked it up wrong, but actually no that's basically what she did?
She's using us as entertainment isn't she? I'd suspected so, but she'd at least sat on the sofa for a chat previous to this.
For what it's worth, nephew has very few toys, she dumps them and puts them in the attic - he got a train set at Christmas and it was in the attic by March. She is very minimalist