Monday, January 4, 2010

Adventures in Babysitting

It's very long, and I didn't proof read, I'll do it tomorrow....sorry!

The day started off at 2:00. We promptly began Wii Fit, where I won most of the games, my first time. It was a ton of fun, just a lot of concentration and balancing. We did have an unfortunate accident where we were playing baseball and the 6 year old swung his remote into my remote. OUCH! We decided to take a walk and get some fresh air. When we returned we made some frozen pizza and drank tons of Hawaiian punch. Spongebob made his first appearance as he graced the kitchen table in the game "Sorry" form (and shortly later he appeared in the snack form of cheese crackers). We played but once the little boy got "sorried" he didn't want to play anymore. He told us that he was done and whacked his pieces off the board. Shai and I finished and Shai won....): My moves always seemed to benefit her.
After that we rocked out to some rock band. Unfortunately the yellow drum didnt work, and since the beginner level always had at least 50% of them yellow, we always got booed off the stage. We sent the little boy to bed and kept eating kiss after kiss in a little jar (by the end of the night they were basically gone....whoops!)
As the midnight hour crept closer we wore our "Happy New Year" 'crowns' (cuz Shai and I were princesses and the little boy was a wizard) and got in the festive mood. The 6 year old wanted to pop the poppers and release the streamers but we kindly explained to him that we weren't going to do it until midnight or until he was ready to go to bed. At 7 he exclaimed he was more than ready to get to bed.....but we didn't want him to go to bed yet. So we said "put your pj's on for 15 minutes and if you're still ready then we'll do it." We went to put the baby in his pj's and the 6 year old came out in SPONGEBOB PJ'S! Then the little brother realized he was wearing them, and pointed to his very own spongebob pj's right next to the changing table. He wanted to match!
About 20 minutes later the older brother still wanted to do the minifireworks so he said "okay I'm ready!" We made him pinky promise he'd go to bed, but of course right after we were done he exclaimed "JUST KIDDING!". Luckily Shai and I saved some for us to do at midnight.
After we had finally gotten the kids to bed, about 9 for the baby 10 for the 6 year old, we decided to make cookies, since nothing was good on TV. We whipped up a batch of soft chocolate chip cookies and Shai wanted to run some next door to the boy she wants to marry's best family friends. We quickly digital scrapbooked a tag, wrapped it all cute in tinfoil, and ran over the cookies. Shai thought we wouldn't really did it, but in the morning they were gone from the house and the neighbors front door step, so we must have done it!
While the little boy was in his bed and we were scrapbooking we heard "Shailynn, Shai, Shai, Shai!" We thought he was going to come out, and the house was a mess from making the cookies so we just laid down in the bed and waited for him to come out, and we were going to blame it on the elves. We didn't find out until earlier that morning that he didn't really come out of his room, he just yelled for us.
While we were in the process of making cookies Shailynn was trying to spray Pam on the cookie sheet. She kept it really close and was spraying huge globs on it so I took it away from her to show her how to do it. She wasn't going to give it up without a fight so she kept grabbing for it. I threatened that if she was going to continue doing that I'd spray it in her mouth. She told me "Okay go for it!" and I did. Pam sprayed right into her mouth! We both were basically rolling on the floor in laughter after that point. YUCK! After that she got the nickname kidnapper (cuz she was trying to take poor Pam) and I was called Pam Mam, helping Pam's around the world stay safe.
Later that night we watched the ball drop, although it didnt exactly show the ball drop, it just showed gay people kissing, and we banged pots and pans. Shai broke a wooden spoon and we hit the pans to our hearts content. People were outside yelling happy new years to us and then we went inside to make a midnight snack and pop our fireworks of sorts.
I made my special gourmet Top Ramen, although it didn't taste good because we had to eat it out of Tupperware so it didn't taste as good as it should have. Then we watched some Barney and little kids shows, cuz that's the only thing that is appropriate at 1 o'clock in the morning. We were going to watch a movie but we could get the TV to work, even though we did our awesome ninja rolls from one side of the tv to the other. Finally we went to bed.....
The next morning we had a huge mess to clean up! One silly thing that happened was we we came into the entry way to find a VERY happy baby. He was shaking baking soda all over himself and he was rolling in it like it was snow. He loved it. That was the biggest smile I've ever seen on a baby. We cleaned for about an hour and made some yummy yummy waffles. The only down side is we had to have sugar free syrup on them. At that point we found out that the parents wouldn't be leaving Las Vegas for at least another hour.
We played some more Wii and then ditched the electronics for an old fashion fun game of Hide and Go Seek. It was a lot of fun, and filled with lots of fun spots to hide. We then decided to do some rough housing and the little boy loved attacking us and chasing us around the house. We decided to pick him up and I had the arms and Shai had the kicking legs. I was laughing so hard I could keep him up so I slowly lowered him but due to his kicking or something he fell a little faster than expected so I hurried to catch his head and somehow he got hurt (for the third time poor boy, he must hate me). He complained his elbows were hurt....I think. Then the mom called and said she was just leaving Las Vegas.
I went into the bathroom to wash my hands and realized that there was some toilet paper in the toilet so I went to flush it and it clogged! How embarrassing. What was worse though, is we looked all over for the plunger and we couldn't find it ANYWHERE! Finally after lots of embarrassment and stress we found it in the cabinet of the boys bathroom. That was lucky!
So we turned on some music and had a huge dance party. We switched from rap to 70's, 80's, 90's, swing, tango, and broadway. We rocked out to the rockband accessories and just plain had fun! Then somehow the poor boy got hurt again and ran into his room. Then on the 90's station this really weird rap came on, right as the parents came home. It was pretty embarassing.
Then....I went home.
Phew

1 comment:

Shailynn Greenhalgh said...

Suprisingly, I can't wait to do it again!! Nice doing buisness with ya Alexander!