Adventures in Babysitting Part Deux

July 22, 2010

This is a picture of Mr. Sayer yesterday pretending that his Mr. Potato Head's hat is a phone. :)

He's starting to say, "Please" and "Thank you" more often now-and, although it's upon prompting, he says it so earnestly, I think he knows what it means! It just melts my heart...

The afternoon on the day when this was taken, I walked Zach out to his car--he was going to dinner with his old boss--and, as I was walking out the door, Sayer cried, "MY Ashley!" He is going back to his mom's for a week, and when he was leaving yesterday, I told him, "Bye!" and he just waved and waved and smiled and yelled "Bye!" to me. : )

Adventures in Babysitting

June 21-23, 2010

I've been having fun with this little boy this week.
We've watched lots of kiddo movies (including Up!), pretended to be zoo animals, read Alice in Wonderland, talked to the kitties in the house, played with the fishies (balls) in the boat (a plastic tub), and rang (er, rung?) around the rosey. (I still don't know what to do with that verb--HA!)
But, boy, what I would do to have half his energy, spunk, and amazement!!!

[This was taken at Lindsey and Sam's wedding last weekend.]

Flushed Away

[photo courtesy http://animatedviews.com/2007/flushed-away/]

Last night Zach and I FINALLY watched this. (We Netflixed it weeks ago...)

It was so funny and precious! Zach says it has the cutest singing slugs you will ever see. (Side note: Zach and I were discussing slugs, and he said that they were the same thing as snails. I didn't think so. He said they were like hermit crabs and found their shells. This seemed so plausible, I agreed that he was probably right then. WRONG. I googled it today, and I was thinking right--the snails secrete their shells over time, which is why they grow in a spiral from the inside out. ;)

I loved Flushed Away...but it made me miss England terribly.

The DVD came in handy this morning when I was babysitting Sayer, and the VCR wouldn't work. (There aren't many kid DVDs lying around here since the kids a.k.a. Erin and Zach grew up before the DVD-age.) So I popped this in, and the "little person," as my awkward husband calls him, sat riveted. I guess it does pay to be a "big kid," as Beverly said about Zach. Sayer's such a sweet, smart, and funny kid and minds so well--no trouble at all!

I had much more trouble corralling the animals. *lol*

Tonight Terry came over for swimming and supper and brought the most delicious and creamy and fluffy coconut meringue pies I've ever had. His mom made them from scratch. :) I really should have taken a picture of them. He left them for us to enjoy! HUZZAH!

Adriane and Brenna, we missed you guys tonight, but we hope to see you soon!!