So my husband and I got enlisted to babysit our grandniece Neveah today. My husband agreed to do it but then got asked to work for someone so that left me to babysit. It was only a few hours. At first I was peeved…I mean I get rid of one set of kids and people want me to take on another kid??? I am ready to move on with life but I feel like I keep getting bogged down.
It turned out fine. I had helpers. Of course I had to be up early. My husband was home with Neveah the first hour til he went to work. Ne (that’s how I’ve been shortening her name, pronounce Nay) was obsessed with my cat. Chasing/playing with Kitty occupied most of her time until she saw the jungle gym/swing set out back. Then she wanted to play out there. I had to go outside! She climbed around a bit on the jungle gym and I pushed her on the swing. Then she wanted to play in the sand box but it was nearly overgrown with weeds. WAS. Ne and I pulled weeds. She seemed to enjoy the challenge. I needed a break soon enough–my feet hurt, I have some damn issue going on. Ne didn’t want to stop and didn’t want me to stop either. I got my damn break though and went to the garage to get the budding gardener a trowel. I also got the cat leash and harness thinking Kitty might want to go outside. Kitty had been watching us from the family room.
I got Kitty all hooked up and took her outside. Ne wanted to be in control but after one trial of Ne holding the leash, which she let go and Kitty ran for a bit (and all kinds of evil imaginings of what could happen to poor Kitty flew through my brain), I kept control of the leash. Ne wanted Kitty to go down the slide with her. Um no. Kitty was too scared. Kitty already knew that Ne was bad news. Ha. Ne begged me to let Kitty go down the slide with her but I put my foot down. Kitty had enough excitement for the day already, and she was being a trooper. I couldn’t put her through anymore.
I did let Ne take my little camera to take pictures of Kitty, til Kitty got scared, jumped herself out of her harness and ran for the family room door-wall.
So inside we went. It was all of 10:30am. I thought it was later. Ne wanted her dinner. She looked in my pantry and asked for more cereal (she had a bowl from Uncle Chuck earlier). She also found Kool-Aid. I made the Kool-Aid and got her cereal. Easy enough. She wanted her Kool-Aid in a wine glass. Okay. It was cute. I took her picture and she demanded, “Why you taking a picture of me?” Because.
One other little funny thing: Ne got a piece of tape stuck to her foot. She was wondering why. I said it must have been on the floors and looked at my family room floors. They were dirty so I said as much and then, “I need to vacuum, but I don’t like to clean.” Then Ne said, “Neither does my grandma.” LOL, that’s the grandma she lives with and who is always putting on airs of being superhuman (like so superhuman as to not need sleep).
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