11 posts tagged “babysitting”

This morning I got an early Christmas gift from the two kids that I have been babysitting for for about two years. They are so cute, I love them like they were my brother and sister. They got me this really nice Vera Bradley book bag which I can't wait to use next semester and the card they gave me brought little tears to my eyes.

Today was not exceptionally exciting. I woke up and then went babysitting. I was happy though because I was only babysitting the baby and not his older sister who loves to play dress up and pretend which I am not too big of a fan of doing. After his initial crying spurt he warmed up to me and started showing me all of his toys. And then he really started to like me and started using my name which was the first time I ever realized him ever talking to me while using my name. He kept waving to me and saying "Hi Cole!" It was too cute. After I was done babysitting I didn't have anything better to do so I took a short nap and then I went to school where we learned about how the mentally ill are being locked away in our prison systems. Very disturbing and very sad. We watched a documentary on it from Frontline. I was trying to find a link to it but I couldn't find it on the site but here's the Frontline site anyway. And now I am sitting in the school's computer lab waiting for my carpool buddy to show up from his midterm. And that was my uneventful, boring day!

What's making you smile today?

Today what made me smile was when the little kid I babysat for came up to me to hug my legs. Now it sounds like something that one would not normally smile about because it's kind of a nothing thing but it makes me smile because when I first get to his house to babysit him he screams bloody murder because he knows that when he sees me it means that his mom is going to leave. But after about a half an hour he warms back up to me and that's why the little hug means so much! It means he actually doesn't hate me which the crying may make it seem like.

here's a recap of my weekend:
-saturday: woke up early to drive my aunt to the airport. then went out to stony brook to visit my brother with my family. we all went out to lunch at red lobster. i had this amazing dessert: it was a giant chocolate chip cookie that was warmed up with hot fudge inside and a scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. how awesome is that?! when we went back to bro's dorm i helped him move some stuff out- i finally got my mini fridge back [except it smells like beer and nasty old food :( ]. i got to get a large iced coffee on the way home which made me happy- its sad that such small things can make me happy lol. i spent the rest of the day studying for my physio psych test.

-sunday: woke up early and went babysitting for a family that i haven't seen in a while. i found out that the mom is pregnant! i'm so excited! i can't wait til the baby is born, which will be in september! I love little babies and hopefully i'll still get to babysit when he/she is born. i babysat for most of the day then came home and now here i am procrastinating studying for physio psych again. tomorrow is my last final of the semester!

countdown to vacation: five days!

so this morning i had my philosophy final. i think i did alright. the questions were long answer and i did not know how to answer one of the questions which was 20% of the test but i think i did alright on the rest of the questions. he wanted us to spend a half hour on each question which would make us stay the whole two hours and thirty minutes. i was done in an hour and fifteen minutes, so hopefully that doesn't mean i totally bombed it. oh well, its only worth 1/3 of my grade.

now im just procrastinating studying for the final i have to take tomorrow. the final i have tomorrow is on autism and mental retardation. it shouldn't be too hard seeing as on the midterm i only got one question wrong. in order to put off studying i went to bed bath and beyond to pick up those travel size toiletries for my trip that is coming up. next week i'm going away to north carolina with a family that i am going to babysit for. it's going to be a lot of fun. and i don't have to pay for anything plus i'm getting paid to babysit the kids which is pretty sweet. we are going to this really nice house that has a pool and an elevator! by the way does anyone know if you can bring a razor on an airplane? i have no idea since i haven't been on an airplane since i was in the seventh grade which was like 8 years ago.

So today I got another babysitting job for the summer. That brings me to two regular ones and one every once in a while one. Now I'll be busy practically all day on tuesdays, wednesdays, and fridays. Plus I am going to school on Tuesday and Thursday nights until July 4th or sometime around there, and then after then I'll be going monday, tuesday, wednesday, AND thursday night. Right now I am taking a class on Buddhism which is so far very interesting  (I think Buddhism is the best) despite my teacher just standing at the front of the class and talking for three hours straight and jumping around from topic to topic and not having a textbook to follow along with. Next half of the summer semester I'll be taking sociology of crime which I think will be great and then a women's study class on gender and work. I'm happy to be busy though, it keeps my mind off of other things and makes me feel sane and normal. On the days that I just sit around my house because i am an anti-social bum i get depressed and/or sad. Summer sucks.

Yesterday, Friday night, I went to Book Revue to see Jodi Picoult speak about her new book. It was packed....at least a few hundred people over the fire hazard rule things. I had no idea she was born on Long Island, but she was! She did a reading of some excerpts from the book that just came out this week. I'm already almost finished with it. She also talked about her two upcoming novels which sounds REALLY good. Can't wait! I was all ready to get my book signed but there were so many people and out of my mom, gary, and I, I was the only one who was there to see her and felt bad for making them both wait so long just to get a signature.

Today I went out to Stony Brook with my family for my little bro's "Accepted Students" presentation and tour. I basically just sat in the library feeling like a zoo animal while all of the tours walked by and stared at me..."look a college student in her natural habitat...and oh my gosh...is she studying!" I felt ridiculous. I don't like being noticed...I like being invisible better.

Tonight I went to the couple I babysit for's going away party. I sat at the little kids table but I still had fun. Then at around seven I went back to the house with the babies while the parents stayed at the party. I didn't get home till after 12 which was fine but I am exhausted! I barely had any sleep last night. I am really going to miss them...they are so nice, you know just genuinely nice people. Then I got home and had a fight with Gary and now I kind of feel like being sick. So I am going to try to go to sleep. Good night!

So not much has been happening. On Valentine's Day Gary surprised me by coming over in the middle of the snow storm. He got me the greatest gift! It's a beautiful pierre cardin watch. I'll have to take a pic of it later to show it off. Gary didn't really like the gift I got him which is cool...it just means I get a redo to get him something better!

I haven't babysat all week which I was surprised to realize that I missed. It's definitely not because of the kids I watch but because of the ungodly hour I have to get there by...eight in the morning! lol I know, its horrible. Nah, in reality it's not that bad. It gets my lazy butt out of bed in time to not waste the day. So yesterday I finally got to see the kiddles. Alyssa was so excited to see me. She was at the door waiting for me and when I walk in she goes "I missed you so much! I feel like I haven't seen you in a year!" It was so cute. Then she gives me a Valentine's day present including the cutest card ever. They made it themselves with stickers and what not and on the inside they wrote "you are the best babysitter ever!" It was so cute...it brought tears to my eyes. After I dropped Alyssa off at school I went to babysit for the real little kiddles, Carly and Gavin. Carly is two and is really the smartest two year old I have ever met. She is so great, she was going "Cole come here" and I would follow her and then she would move somewhere else and repeat the whole process. While I was playing with her Gavin, who is almost one, was playing in his little playpen thing. Of course, he was crawling and fell over and bumped his head and started crying so I picked him up. Then Carly falls and bumps her head on the wall. I was like oh no! Two babies crying at once! But they both stopped quickly so it was all good. When it was time for lunch, her dad brought her upstairs first while I grabbed Gavin. She started crying and saying "cole! cole! cole!" I have a fan! Yay! I'm going to be so sad when they move away to Chicago. The kids are so great and their parents are so nice. I really love them. I feel like they are part of my family. At least I am babysitting them a few more times before they leave in the end of March.

In other news....my brother has been sick for the last four days with some sort of sickness that includes a fever. I keep yelling at him because he keeps coming into my room and coughing his sick germs all over me. Also, my birthday is coming soon! Yay only two more months (sort of)...my bday is April 4th in case you didn't know. I'm hoping for a new laptop but I doubt I get it. Well, it's off to do some hw now.

Right now I am sitting in Stony Brook University's beautiful (sarcasm) library doing nothing too special. So far my classes aren't too bad. Yesterday was Art History, then I had a break because Chem Lab doesn't start until next week, and then it was off to Chem lecture. It wasn't too brutal. I think I may actually enjoy Art History which is from 1400- the present. Today I so far have been late to the class I am most looking forward to which is Biopsychology. Then I had an hour and a half break which I took notes for biopsych from the text book (and I'm still not done). Then I had chem recitation, and now I am here back at my usual hangout on the second floor of the Ward Melville Library. If you ask me my Tuesdays have too many breaks but on the bright side at least it will give me time to do my homework since I really don't have that much time to do so at home.

This morning before I went to school, I babysat Alec and Alyssa as I always do. They are so funny! I feel like I am their big sister since I am there almost everyday. After I was done getting them on the bus I went to their cousin's house and babysat the babies. Well actually I only babysat the almost two year old girl, Carly. She is so cute! I had so much fun playing with her. She kept picking up everything to show me. She is really smart too, she has all of these little Fisher Price plastic animals and she actually can tell the difference between the camel and the horse, which if you ask me looked very similar and easy to confuse. She also knew the iguana! Come on how many two year olds know what an iguana looks like!

I'm also wondering if I should join the Project 365 group/post thing. If you haven't heard about it, it is where you post a picture everyday for a whole year. I think that is a really cool idea and would be really neat to look back on after the year is finished. Unfortunately I am very unreliable with daily posts so I would probably forget to post them lol.

Just got home from babysitting the little munchkins. The little munchkins are two years old and eight months old.  They are so adorable. Unfortunately I really only babysit them when they are sleeping so I don't really get to play and entertain them but that is okay. Tonight the little eight month old boy woke up twenty minutes after his parents left and wailed and cried at the top of his lungs (right into my ear thank you) for about twenty minutes. Eventually after twenty minutes of me trying to rock him asleep and comfort him with his pacifier he started to settle down. Apparently he doesn't like "Old MacDonald Had A Farm" because every time I tried to switch to that from my beautiful singing of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" he started his crying again. After all of this I am both sweating from holding a heavy little baby, covered in baby drool and tears, my hair is wet with what I hope is more drool and tears (little baby likes pulling my hair), and my arm is tired and shaky from holding the baby which again, my weak little arms aren't used to. Despite this little inconvenience, the night was fine. I love the couple who I babysit for. They are so nice and funny and down to earth and just in general nice people. They lent me another Nelson DeMille book to read which I can't wait to get into! Well it's off to another cough filled night sleep.