Babysitting @ MindSay 
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Last year, on their fourth anniversary, they asked if I could possibly help them out by watching their son Dylan, then 8 months. Both of their families live in northern MN, so it isn't convenient to have them come down for an evening so Sony and Jay can go out to dinner. I was happy to oblige and I had my Date with Dylan.
This year, with 5 years fast approaching, I volunteered to help out again. And this time, I had Dylan, 20 months and his new baby sister, Jaysa, 2 months. What a difference!
Last year, Dylan fell asleep about an hour after his parents left and I was hanging out by myself. This year, he is a complete delight and we played, HARD, all evening long. He had a super late nap and didn't go to bed until 10:30 pm. ( I got there at 6:30). He is such a funny kid--he was a little leery of me when I got there, as he had just woken up, but I played with his sister for a bit and it was all good. He warmed up pretty fast and before you know it, we were having a blast! Sony fed Jaysa before they left and then she hung out in her swing while I entertained Dylan.
She seems pretty cool with it, though.
Somehow, in his 20-month-old brain, Dylan associates me with his uncle's girlfriend, a girl named Jess. So, he kept calling me Jess. His parents both told him my name is Olivia and he even said it a couple times, but it must not have sunk in--because I was "Jess" to him all night long.
Once I pulled out the camera Dylan wasn't too sure about it. But then I let him take pictures and showed him how fun it is, he was hamming it up.
In the second picture he is showing me his belly button (pointing to it) and screaming "Button!", which he did about 5 times and then I finally got him to do it for the camera.
I even got him to stand by his sister and hold still so I could get them both in.
No smiles, but they're both still and both looking at me. I consider that amazing for 20 and 2 months.
By this time, Jaysa was sound asleep in the swing and he is running around the room screeching at me and she doesn't even flinch...sweet girl.
We played in the living room for a bit, watching Elmo on Youtube, singing the alphabet with India Arie. Dylan knows the whole song and sings it. I wish I could have gotten that on video, it was about the funniest thing I've ever heard. There are no words to describe it--but this little boy LOVES to sing.
Here he is playing IN his toy box. Yep, inside of the toy box. And Elmo is on behind him and he is singing the alphabet while he plays with his toys. I was cracking up.
Then we wrestled and rough-housed for a bit, because he loves playing rough (definitely a boy) and he was squealing with laughter. So I told him I was tired and laid down and closed my eyes. He started yelling, "Jess! Jess!" over and over again. Then he crept up to me, tapped me on my face and got real close and yelled, "Jess!". I laughed and opened my eyes and then he'd giggle and run away. We must have done this 5 or 6 times, until I was literally wiping tears from my eyes I was laughing so hard. He is very dramatic, screaming Jess!, which isn't even my name and made it that much more funny.
He and I then played in his "big boy" room, he is being transitioned out of the nursery and into a real bed...no more crib. We were having a blast in there when Jaysa woke up and so I brought her in to play with us. I want to say....no crying from her at all. Not once. She ate, played, slept, woke up silently, played, and eventually ate some more and slept again. Beautiful, easy-going baby.
Here she is on Dylan's "big boy" bed. Just happy to be part of the fun.
Then Dylan climbed up on the bed and was chattering non-stop:
I haven't moved her, but you'll notice she has craned her neck around to look at him while he talks. She clearly knows the sound of her brother's voice. (I love that picture). She was watching him intently while he scampered around playing by her.
Because she's so darn cute, I picked her up and started talking to her, which clearly delights her.
Clearly.
Then before I fed her, I put on her baby sunglasses that I bought her (because they were laying on the counter and I couldn't resist):
Is that the funniest thing you've ever seen or what?
Then I was teasing Dylan that Jaysa was going to sit in his booster chair and I really put her in it. He yelled, "NO" and pushed at her, so I scooped her up and he immediately climbed in it. I was laughing at him until he put out his arms and said, "Jaysa", like he wanted her to sit with him. Okay--so I put her in his lap and he wrapped his arms around her and held on. (I held on, too, no way was I letting him hold her on his own.)
Somehow, with my fourth hand, I managed to dig my phone out of my back jeans pocket and snap this in the 10 seconds he held her on his lap. I'm awesome.
At the end of the night, I was feeding Jaysa and Dylan was starting to flag. I told him to get a book and I'd read him a story while I fed her. He got one, but seemed to have no interest in it. Since turning pages with him on my lap and while feeding her was more challenging than anticipated, I opted to tell him a story instead. I made up this story about a truck and a dog and Dylan and Jaysa and Mommy and Daddy. I made up sound effects and everything, and while I was telling it, Dylan kept making the sound effects for me (after hearing them only once). So I kept on talking and making the story longer just to hear him pipe up whenever I gave him a cue. It was pretty cool to have that kind of interaction on story I know he's never heard before. When Jaysa finished eating, Dylan was kind of wandering around the room looking tired; I burped her, and then I put her down on the couch and I said to Dylan, "do you want to go to bed?". He looked right at me and said, "yes." I walked over to him and he held up his arms. I picked him up, he kissed me goodnight, I carried him into his room and laid him in his crib and didn't hear another peep out of him. It was so easy.
Then I held Jaysa and snuggled with her for about 15 minutes until she fell asleep. Sony and Jay came home a bit after 11 from their dinner and the three of us chatted and Sony and I had a couple beers. When I left at 1:30, both kids were still sound asleep, so I must have done something right.
What a fun evening. I am so glad that I could help out my friends on their anniversary, and even more glad that I had so much fun while doing it. I bet Dylan told his parents all about his fun evening with "Jess."
I can't help but wonder if there will be another one for the next anniversary?!?!?!?!?
"Why is Pi Pi?"
My teacher told me it was a Greek letter.
"What letter? P?"
She never replied to me. XD
I also apologized to Randy, because I snapped at him yesterday. As I embarked out of my History class, with him following at my heels, we was poking me and touching my hair. I wasn't in a good mood, and sorta shouted at him (well, not shouted, but you know). He asked me what was wrong, and I told him to leave me alone.
"I'm sorry for snapping at you... The other day."
"What?"
"You know, yesterday... After History."
"Nah, it's okay. I deserved it anyway."
"No, don't say it like that..."
"I did! I was poking you."
"And I don't care. You're a very touchy person. ...How many people do you touch throughout the day?"
"Uh, about 20."
"And do you touch me more than you do with other people?"
"Kinda."
He was giggling as that conversation was held. Boys. I wonder if I'll ever understand them. :)
English was crap, actually... Just because we forgot to do something absolutely correct in our essay, means we failed it. I swear. It's not really fair, since I've never really written an essay before - so I'm inexperienced. I think I failed the Practice test. If I did, I'm seriously gonna cry... Or something...
History was kinda blah. Did some seat work. In Computers, we worked on Microsoft Powerpoint some more.
My cousin asked me and my bro if we wanted to go and babysit her kids tonight. I accepted, so that's where I'll be tonight - hanging around with a 6 year old girl named Olivia, and a 4 year old rambunctious boy named Brody. I love them both, they're really cute. :)
Hello! So, I got my valadation e-mail for Teen Tuesday. So, I'll be writing for that blog along with the three of my own. Check it out and tell me what you think! I'll probably be making my first post for it on Tuesday, hence the name. :D
In other news, I'm babysitting tonight. I know, it sucks, right? Tonight is the last night we can stay up late because we go back to school on Tuesday. I don't want to go back! School is really going to suck, isn't it? *sigh*
Anyway, I don't know what I'm going to do with Thomas today. We'll probably just stay inside. It might rain today, I don't know. I can't believe tomorrow is the last day of summer. I hate school! I don't want to go back! Anyway, bye!
Oops I used the word that is getting Santa in trouble! Get over it! If your a ho, not my problem, My title is in reference to the Seven Dwarfs going off to work!:D:P
Well things are slowly settling down around here-knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, cover all the mirrors with bubble wrap, find a 4 leaf clover, and allow a black cat to cross my path (in the old days it was the White Cat that was bad luck not the black cat!-Tis why I make sure I have at least 1 to 2 black cats as companions at all times! Got three now!)
So Daddy O Grump is on his second day of treatments! Yay! He is tolerating the blood treatments. Still not out of the woods because we won't know for a while if the treatments took. Mom is still staying home because Daddy O Grump is still staggering around like a Sailor on Shore Leave. Thank Macha, that my Moms is a gov't worker of 20 plus years and has all that leave time she has problems using up normally!
The kids are so happy to have started Taekwondo again. We are even learning the form we missed this last go around on top of doing the very first form we learned. We are going to be tested on different things on the old form and since we are taking the time to learn the form we missed before we come back around to it with more things, Mr. Johnson said he might let us test on that form also when the time comes. I am actually glad we took the time off because it got a lil boy by the name of Kobe into the next rank. He had some massive issues with Coltin over DeLaney. Kobe is the same age as DeLaney and has a crush on her, Coltin is already showign the signs of being one of these brother's that if he likes ya, you can tease his sister, but if he doesn't then he is going to make your life a living hell. On top of that Kobe, ALWAYS tried showing Coltin up on everything and no matter what Mr. Johnson, Kobe's grandfather or Mr. Jones said to him about him being older then Coltin didn't take. Mr. Johnson had to go out of his way to give Kobe attention over the other kids because if he didn't get picked for something he made Coltin's life hell right back. For some odd reason, Kobe actually listened to me and LOVED talking to me, so I was usually paired with Kobe and ended up doing a lot of things on my knees so we were the same heigth. Now that he is in the next ranking class we won't have to deal with him until next testing. And then when we get up there, a lil boy from the school district we go to is in there and is very protective of Coltin and DeLaney.
I am dealign with my water pressure being almost none existant. The joys of haivng Tribal water and the Tribe only having a few guys on the utility crews. My girl Tab came out to help me with some things around the house and she is also having issue with Tribal water at her house in town. She had the choice of town water or Tribal water and she choice tribal water much to her disgust! So when she couldn't get a hold of anyone on the phone at my place, she called her dad at home. Her dad is one of the guys on the utility crew and had the day off. There was two Elder tribal deaths with in two days which means the majority of the Omaha Tribal members wont' be at work due to funerals, but Daddy Rudy was going to call Millard the main guy and let him know after getting done at Tab's place to get out to the water tower because it sounds like they either have a main line broke thus why I have no pressure or the electrical is acting up again on the pump! Daddy Rudy doesn't like any of us girls going with out, especially as he says we got his Grandbabies at home and my man is gone and Tab's man is usless with "guy" things!
After we ate some breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast, we tried pushing my van out of the car port to no avail. So we backed the truck up and crawled on the ground and hooked up one of the tow straps to the van and with Tab in the Van guiding it and me in the truck pulling on the van, we got it out of the car port. Then we took a half hour trying to get the hood open to jump the van so I could get it in to the mechanic. Yay. We couldn't doit. Not with the screw driver, the pilers, or the hammer. So I said fuck it! I called Kramer's another mechanic but also the main tower and had Sonny come out and tow my van into my mechanic. He was laughing at me because I was cursing that Van like a sailor on shore leave!:D:P Thank GODS! I use to drink and party with his boys and went out with one of them! He only charged me 30 bucks to tow it into town! I felt bad though he had to go get his rollback truck which just got out of the painters to come get my van! Oh well at least my van is now getting the doors fixed and now the hood fixed so I can get it licensed. The truck is going on the fritz now! The coolant tank is leaking, it needs an oil change, i have the parts for the fuel filter and air filter. And once I get that shit fixed on the truck, I have to have a new vaccum pump put in for the brakes and have my Randy or my mechanic Randy order in blow plugs get them paid for and have the blow plugs replaced! If it isn't one thing or another on vechiles this year it is another! The problem is the weather guys are saying snow either Sunday or Tuesday. Either way if I dont' have a decent working vechile I am farkered!
Well I started taking my sugars again. My A1C's were still decent but they did go higher. I am sitting at a 6.1 so I can stay on my same dosage of meds. I was a very good girl. While Tab was here, I loaded her up with one cloths basket of food and two HUGE walmart bags of food. I left enough food in my freezer and cupboards to get me through till Thanksgiving and all my Thanksgiving supplies. So I can start the low fat, carbs, and basically NO taste diet for Alli! I joined www.myalli.com and got all my items set up so when I start the program after Thanksgiving I am ready to go. I have my menus printed out and a shopping list prepared so when I go grociery shopping tonight after takwondo I can buy up the foods for the menus. This should be interesting. I am sure not having what junk I did put in my body cleansed out will make me one irritable than normal bitch from hades! DeLaney and Coltin already asked if they could go spend the night at the grandparental units for the first week or two! Smart ass kids!
I am working on laundry today because this weekend the kids and I are preparing the dinning room for 11 adults and 9 kids to come eat at our house Thanksgiving. I have all the ingredents to make home made white and wheat dinner rolls, 1 choco pie (diabetic version thank you very much!), a couple of pumpkin pies, and deviled eggs. I will make everything but the deviled eggs this weekend that I listed and can put in the freezer or fridge till Thanksgiving. All I have left to buy for the foods I am making are the taters, milk, veggies to put in my stuffing and a few other added in to cooking items!
I can also get my hallway completely painted now that both coats of primer are on and I can also get my newly sewen kitchen curtains put up. I have to finish out the kids blankets for Winter Solistice and sew together their pillows and then stuff them. Since my mom is so board being home babysitting the Daddy O Grump, I am giving her teh pillow material and having her sew and stuff the kids' pillows!
So now I am off to do some more picking up and dusting around the house! Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hooooooooooooooooo It's off to work I go!
Okay, this would be my first blog so it's going to be boring...but in the future my other ones will be mainly rants 
+ hopefully they'll entertain you as much as they do me. So here I go..
-The names Cathy.
-I'm 14 although people say I look a lot older.
-I live on the coast.
-I'm 'obnoxious' and 'never stop talking'.
-I'm single and happy.
-I love pulling pranks.
-The only movies that I enjoy are comedies and horrors.
-I loveeee to ski/snowboard.
-The fall is the best.
-I listen to mainly rock, metal, screamo, oldies, indie, techno, and alternative music.
-I have several best friends.
-Yes, I have a myspace but it's for personal use only.
-Coke is way better than Pepsi.
-My current job is babysitting.
-Pain makes me laugh.
-I love adrenaline rushes cough amusement parks cough.
-Concerts rock.
-Cruises are fun.
-I love talking to strangers and meeting new people.
Want to know more?
IM me. CDxox14.
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