Babysitting

[Professur]

I'm sitting with a 4 month old, teething baby on my lap, while my five year old little girl sings to me from her kindergarden song book.






Someone shoot me.

 

[ris]

aww, prof, you is jus' the cutest!

 

[unclehobart]

No. Prof is a scraggly mutt. V 2.0/3.0 are the cuties.

 

[Justintime]

awwwww

 

[Professur]

V3.0 just went to bed. V2.0 is sitting here crying coz I won't carry her to bed.

 

[Nixy]

MEANY! You shoudl carry her to bed. My dad used to ride my brother ot bed on his back until he was 7 or 8.

 

[Professur]

I would have, Nix. I would have. But she'd just walked back into the livingroom from her bedroom to ask me to carry her to bed. And started bawling when I said no. If she'd pleaded instead of crying, I'd have done it. But you can't give a kid their way if they cry about it.

 

[Nixy]

Ok, that makes sense then. Definetly don't want to give in in situations like that. That's how kids turn into spoiled brats.

 

[nodnod]

Time for punishment. Pick her up and carry her tothe other side of the house then make her walk back to bed

 

[Professur]

[whine]But her ankles huuuuuuurt[/whine]

 

[unclehobart]

Does her butt hurt now as well?

 

[Professur]

No. I try to avoid that whenever possible. But sometimes.... sometimes ....

 

[unclehobart]

Its not a constant habit for her to try and hoodwink you with the ol' 'it huuuurts daddy... it huuuurts... carry me'.

 

[Professur]

Yes, it is. Bad knees run in the family. She's been hearing about sore knees her entire life, so it's kinda natural for her to have picked it up.

 

[unclehobart]

Ah... a little monkey see, monkey do. Someone should tell her that such arthritis usually takes a little time to kick in.... at least puberty. That is unless the bad knee thing hits your family super early... whch would suck big time.

 

[Professur]

My knees were bothering me at 7.

 

[HomeLAN]

I just got through 5 days of sitting my wife's nephew along with my own. Well, actually Karen took the brunt of it since I was at work for 3 of those days, but you get the idea.

The only real positive is that Karen is now fully on board with the "one only plan".

 

[Professur]

For now. How soon they forget.

 

[Professur]

Well, V2.0 just woke up crying and yelling. I got her back to sleep by letting her crash on the couch beside me. So when you hear the snoring, it's not me.

 

[HomeLAN]

Bad dream?