Thursday, November 10, 2005
Baby and Puppy Sitting
Quote: Baby Face. You’ve got the cutest little baby face…....... Anonymous
Well Dear Reader,
We’ve been busy this week. On top of all of our usual routines we have been busy watching our neighbor’s baby and puppy. Usually it is just the puppy while they are at work, but this week we got to watch J.P. (our cute neighbor boy).
Isn’t he so cute?? This is his newborn picture.
J.P. loves to laugh and play with you but boy does he fight to go to sleep. When high school girl watched him with me during her day off of school (she got election day off) it was getting to be that time in the afternoon when I remember that little ones like to nap and J.P. sure was acting like he wanted one. So we gave him his afternoon bottle, burped him and then started to rock him. Well, he was having none of that. He would rub his eyes, put his head on my shoulder, pull it up quickly and look me in the face, laugh, then rub his eyes…..... repeat above several times.
Finally I turned him over to hubby. J.P. sees hubby as a plaything - he has a beard to pull, glasses to yank on, a St. Michael medal to pull on and chew on. Yup, hubby is a never ending source of entertainment. Soon it is time to put him in this contraption that is new to me. (Baby toys have really changed since the girls were small) It has a cloth seat that he sits in and that is totally surrounded by all sorts of plastic gizzmos that when touched either light up, make noise, sing or talk; it can be a little freaky. Puppy of course wants to investigate as he does everything so you have to keep him occupied too.
This is puppy investigating my cell phone.
Yesterday was just watching J.P. as his daddy had to take puppy to the vet. I went over in time to change his diaper, play with him a bit, feed him a bottle, change those pants again and rock him to sleep (seems he only takes morning naps). After he was fast asleep in his crib and I was half way through the first section of the local paper his daddy came home. Then it was off to the doctor for hubby and me. Amazing how calm you get rocking a baby!!
Till next time, Dear Reader.
