Super Nanny

On Monday my sister had to work and didn’t have daycare – so I volunteered to take her kids for the day.  My plan was to still work myself while they were here, just so I could get a feel for this working and taking care of little ones.  Secretly I was actually really nervous – I had no idea how it was all going to work out.

It couldn’t have gone better!!  My goodness she has some super awesome kids!!  About 15 minutes before I was suppose to start work I got everyone in the office and snuggled in.  Elly at the computer playing her games… she thought it was so cool that she was on Jesse’s computer and was she very happy to tell him when he came home for lunch that she was on his computer!

And Garrett in his jumper.  Look he is happy!!  Now he goes crazy in this jumper and nonstop jumps… and it is noisy!!

So Elly and I are at our computers working away and Garrett is jumping and it is loud.  Elly finally yells – I can’t hear my games!  And I’m thinking if my phone rings I’m never going to hear the caller.  Pretty soon Garrett starts grunting and I so know what he is doing… he is working on a good smelly one for me!!  And he did!  So I go change him and I left him on my bed while I went to discard the nasty diaper and wash my hands and when I came back he was almost asleep, so I left him.  He slept the whole morning while I worked!!!  I was so excited – that was a 3 hour nap!!

He woke up during my lunch and we got him all fed and put back in his jumper for the afternoon of work.  I could only do another hour or so and both kids had enough of my working and were ready for something new and exciting.  My last 10 minutes of work I actually had Garrett in my lap and he thought it was real fun to drool all over my papers and grab anything in his reach!  Elly was even at my desk at this point coloring and watching everything I did and she is so into reading so she wanted to know all the words I was typing.  It was time for me to shut down and spend the rest of the day with the kids.  So I did.

The biggest challenge during the day was feeding Garrett his bottle.  I have this huge oversized basketball belly and trying to snuggle Garrett on top of it was literally like trying to balance him on a basketball.  We did eventually get snuggly and he drank his bottles without any problems.

It was a really fun day with the kids and I learned that it wasn’t so scary.  I really need to practice my diaper changing – man it has been a really long time since I have done that!  And I really need to get organized… it would come time to feed Garrett his cereal/fruit and I would get him in his chair and I would have the food and the spoon… but no bib on him – and he is a messy eater.  Elly would go get the bib.  Then I needed a burp cloth because he was really getting messing and starting to put his toes in his mouth and now we had cereal all over his toes!  Elly ran and got me that.  I think Elly just needs to move in with me when I have Blueberry!  Elly even tied my shoes for me – hey it is hard work to reach my toes these days!! 

And I slept SO good that night!  I think I was even rolling over without waking up!!  And for those of you who have been pregnant before you know you can’t roll over without waking up first – and you know how much of a workout it is to roll over.