The Most Intersting Babysitting Job Ever

So you know those children in the pictures? Addie and Henry? I babysat them last night, which certainly isn't a rare event. But it's sad, because they're leaving for home on Monday. Ah well, I'm sure we can find another family to go out to dinner with and another source for money.

Anyway, I got to the apartment at about 5:05, 5 minutes late but it doesn't matter because our families are the best of friends (or something along those lines...). Their mom went and bought pizza with us and took Addie with her, so I just played animals (he is freaking obsessed with little plastic animals) with shirtless Henry for about 20 minutes. After the parents left, we ate some vergetable pizza of the Swedish sort, and Addie started to flip out. Mind you, this is an unusual event. She normally is very happy that I'm babysitting her. Oh well... I stuck Boz in the portable DVD player and she was good to go.


After Boz ended, Henry decided it was time for Scooby Dooby Doo (lol), of which I've watched extensive amounts since we've gotten here. The kid loves Scooby and animals, and also Cars. Needless to say, it was great fun for Henry, Addie, Emily (she was there, just because), and I to watch Scooby Doo on a portable DVD player because I couldn't figure out how to get it to play on the tv. Oh well.


The most eventful bit of this was Addie falling asleep on my shoulder. It was so cute! She slept there for approximately 20 minutes... And of course I got pictures, being me, but they will not upload, so I suppose I'll just email them. Yeah, she slept on my shoulder (snoring in a cute small-child fashion) for a while, until she woke up. Shortly after realizing what was going on, with the air of sleepiness from just having woken up, she flipped out. Like, really really freaked out. She was just absolutely screaming and crying and whatnot, and after deciding that Emily and I weren't exactly helpful enough, went and cried to Henry, who put his hands over his ears and was like "WHAT? WHAT?" and obviously that fixed everything -_-. Her cries of "Mommy" were pretty sad, especially at the point when she was sobbing too hard to get out more than the first syllable.


The one thing I could figure out to do was hold her up to the window and watch for her parents, but if I took her away, she would freak again. Obviously I preferred a more lasting effect so I called my mom, like I was told to do if she flipped. And that sort of helped, because she said that she could have another treat (i.e. candy, ice cream) if that would help. She eventually decided it was ok to leave the window, so I took her over to the freezer and let her pick what she wanted, and then gave her some vanilla ice cream. Lol, while I was scooping her some, I looked down at her, and her mouth was open about as wide as it would go, and she was showing me a dry noodle that she found on the ground... Her mouth was open so so wide, and she looked so freaking happy! It was utterly startling and hilarious.

Yeah, it actually wasn't that interesting unless you were there. But, man, I was there until midnight. Midnight! Oh well, it was fun.