Adventures in Babysitting...

So...have you missed me? :-P With school out, there is not much to blog about. The end of the year was a whirlwind as well...the only amusing thing I can think of to tell you about is that when I walked into the school on graduation night, Flava Flav's reaction was: "Miss Book, you look hot!" Once again, I love eighth graders...:)

No worries though. Summer session starts in one week, which means about 70 new eighth and ninth graders will be on hand to amuse you!

This past week has involved a lot of babysitting, between helping out some friends who are packing up for a move by watching their two kids (ages 5 and 2), or staying overnight with my cousin's three girls (ages 7, 5 and 3) and their new puppy... well, let me just list some of the amusing comments I've heard recently.

1. This is actually a longer story. It involves a trip to Wendy's with the 5 year old from family number 1. Let's just say the the Wendy's down the street is staffed by the most inept group of high school students ever. Well, maybe not inept, probably just lazy. Case in point: while I was there, the manager (who seemed to be pretty much doing everyone's job) asked a kid to get on the grill. The kid's response? "I don't want to." If I'd been that manager it would have taken everything in me to not slap that kid into next week. As it was some lady behind me in line yelled to the kid that it didn't matter what he wanted...

Anyway, here was my order: two happy meals with oranges, a spicy chicken go wrap and a large fry. Here is what I got: two happy meals with fries, a spicy chicken go wrap and a large iced tea. And it took a long time. When we got back in the car, I proclaimed: "Well, we're never going there again."
Mae: Why?!?
me: They don't know what they're doing.
M: Well, can we go back when they figure it out?
me: Sure.
M: Until then we can go to my Wendy's, the one by my house.
me: Okay.
M: Well, it's not my Wendy's it's just the one we go to. I don't own it. God does. Did you know that God owns all the Wendy's?
me: No, I didn't know that.
M: Well, God owns the whole world because he created it and if you create something, then it's yours.
me: Hmmm, yes, you're right!

2. Later...as I'm getting her out of the car seat:
M: You're never going to have kids.
me: Excuse me?
M: Well, you're not married.
me: You're right, I need to find a husband, then I can have kids.
M: God likes when people have babies because he wants his creation to keep on going.

3. It must be something about five year olds, because Sydney had some good comments too...
Pointing to my toe ring, "I like your toe branklet!"
Hearing a woodpecker, "It's a bird knocker!"

4. And, as she and her older sister were getting out of the bathtub:
"Miss Alexis, do you have a boyfriend?"
"Nope."
"Well why don't you get one?!?!"

5. She also managed to completely steal my heart within the first hour I was babysitting (I usually see these kids about twice a year at family functions.)
"Miss Alexis, will you come snuggle on the couch with me?"
Then, once I was sitting next to her,
"I love you!"

Too cute!