Babysitting

[Professur]

I'm sitting with a 4 month old, teething baby on my lap, while my five year old little girl sings to me from her kindergarden song book.






Someone shoot me.

[ris]

aww, prof, you is jus' the cutest! :D

[unclehobart]

No. Prof is a scraggly mutt. V 2.0/3.0 are the cuties.

[Justintime]

awwwww :) :headbang: :headbang:

[Professur]

V3.0 just went to bed. V2.0 is sitting here crying coz I won't carry her to bed.

[Nixy]

MEANY! You shoudl carry her to bed. My dad used to ride my brother ot bed on his back until he was 7 or 8.

[Professur]

I would have, Nix. I would have. But she'd just walked back into the livingroom from her bedroom to ask me to carry her to bed. And started bawling when I said no. If she'd pleaded instead of crying, I'd have done it. But you can't give a kid their way if they cry about it.

[Nixy]

Ok, that makes sense then. Definetly don't want to give in in situations like that. That's how kids turn into spoiled brats.

[nodnod]

Time for punishment. Pick her up and carry her tothe other side of the house then make her walk back to bed :D

[Professur]

But her ankles huuuuuuurt

[unclehobart]

Does her butt hurt now as well?

[Professur]

No. I try to avoid that whenever possible. But sometimes.... sometimes ....

[unclehobart]

Its not a constant habit for her to try and hoodwink you with the ol' 'it huuuurts daddy... it huuuurts... carry me'.

[Professur]

Yes, it is. Bad knees run in the family. She's been hearing about sore knees her entire life, so it's kinda natural for her to have picked it up.

[unclehobart]

Ah... a little monkey see, monkey do. Someone should tell her that such arthritis usually takes a little time to kick in.... at least puberty. That is unless the bad knee thing hits your family super early... whch would suck big time.

[Professur]

My knees were bothering me at 7.

[HomeLAN]

I just got through 5 days of sitting my wife's nephew along with my own. Well, actually Karen took the brunt of it since I was at work for 3 of those days, but you get the idea.

The only real positive is that Karen is now fully on board with the "one only plan". :D

[Professur]

For now. How soon they forget.

[Professur]

Well, V2.0 just woke up crying and yelling. I got her back to sleep by letting her crash on the couch beside me. So when you hear the snoring, it's not me.

[HomeLAN]

Bad dream? :(

[Professur]

She'd been whining and crying all day, even to the point of screaming at her Grandmother. Whenever she does that, she never sleeps well. This morging she gave me a mouthful because I didn't carry her to bed last night.

[Inkara1]

So she's learning first-hand how hard it is to train a stubborn Scot, but she's trying to do so anyway?

[Professur]

Are you trying to be funny?

[Inkara1]

Moi? :angel2:

[Professur]

News Update:

I'm sitting here watching NASCAR and surfing and chatting. V2.0, however, is having the time of her life trying to put all of her hair clips into my hair ... including two purple ponytail-hair extension thingies.

V3.0s just watching the cars go round and round.

[Q]

hmmm :D *pictures prof in purple ponytail thingys and a kilt watching nascar*

[sbcanada]

I used to babysit... The last time I did the little stinker walked out the door and got half way down the block before his dad ran and grabbed him. :o

Wasn't my fault though, my damn sister came to see me, God knows why, and she left the door open. I wasn't watching the kid because I thought he was downstairs with his dad, like he had been for almost the whole time. I never babysat again. :(

Please don't tell my future wife about this incident or she may reconsider. :D

[Professur]

17/05/02

V2.0's back at my hair again. The missus is munching Gummy Nerds. V3.0 is munching the missus. And I'm here.

Alls well that ends well.