Ever girl has done this at one point in time. Babysitting; yes… watching one, two, sometimes three children for a night. It’s usually pretty good money and the kids usually behave fairly well for mom and dad being out of the house. Today, I am watching my baby sister. She is four and because she is the youngest she thinks she is the boss. I went and picked her up from preschool at eleven and told her gets to hang with big sis today. Like any little sister, she was excited.
She loves to go to the gym with me, so for our lunch break that’s where we headed. When I run she likes to walk next to me, when I squat, she gets the little two pounders and squats with me (it’s pretty cute). I even think she works up a sweat! After only about an hour it was getting time to start to head back to the office, and I had some work to finish up on. She usually behaves and occupies herself, but so far, not so good… I figured she was hungry so I asked her what she wanted, that was a mistake, of course, she wanted chicken nuggets; but we are Catholic and it’s Lent now, so that means no meat on Fridays. Finally, after a long talk she went with fish sticks.
When she was finally done, she decided to do the laundry, but dumped a whole bottle of hand soap in the washer. I had no idea this was going on and when I went back there to turn it on I seen her playing with my cat, Sophie. I turned on the washer and went back up front. About 30 minutes later I hear Kaitlyn, “Why is there bubbles coming out of the thing Jess.” I was not a happy camper. I really couldn’t get angry with her, she was only trying to help…I think. So I calmly explained why we use detergent instead of soap. After we worked together and got that mess cleaned up, she decided she wanted to color. Well, no biggy, I gave her the crayolas. Mistake number 1: I didn’t give her any paper. Mistake number 2: I totally forgot that there was some permeate colored markers in the box… big woops on my part. Good thing mom buys those eraser things that remove everything off of the walls, floor, and the benches.
I’m usually a very observant person and pay plenty of attention to what she’s doing. I guess my afternoon I just have too much on my plate. And now, she’s trying to help me write this blog, so instead of typing this in about 7 minutes, it’s taken me about 30 minutes. Little ones are so fun. J Guess she can help me clean the run outside and she can play with her bran spankin new princess bouncy ball that cost me $5.00. Having a little 4 year old to watch all the time reminds me why I don’t want any little ones any time soon. Lol ,even though she’s a cute and tries to help me with the chores. hahaha
Little sisters are a handful but you seem to manage pretty well!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a pretty fun day to me! That is crazy though that all that soap came out of the washer! I would hate cleaning that up. Sounds like she is a pretty enthusiastic kid though since she helped you clean it up. You are very patient for not getting mad at her.
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