Last weekend I babysat overnight. I had such an awesome time!
The boys (Dalton, 10; and Joey, 9) are absolutely hilarious. They spend all day wrestling or chasing each
other. I don’t usually mind, as long as they are smiling and not biting, but this time they were just too rowdy. So I locked them outside for 15 minutes! My goal was to get them interested in something out there so they could have fun out of my hair, but they decided it was more fun to spend that time trying to open windows and pick the lock on the front door to get inside. Not 2 minutes after I let them in, they went right back out and played in their fort for 2 hours! That’s what you get when you try to structure a little boy’s time!
I was also in charge of Alyssa, age 4. She is a real cutie, and happy to play “Princess Cards” all day! We usually have fun teaming up against the boys. Once, when the boys tied me to a rocking chair, Alyssa came to my rescue (I’m so glad she’s good with knots!) and we fled to our head quarters in the bathroom to plan our revenge. We couldn’t do much to them (a babysitter and a 4-year-old against two boys that are almost as tall as the babysitter? Yeah right!!!) but we still had fun.
The weekend provided some good experience. I figured out a lot about what discipline works for them, what drink they like with dinner, and how much time they should spend watching TV/playing gameboy/on the computer. I felt very honored that their parents would trust me to watch them for that long!
