Grandpa Solos

Well, things have been pretty quiet around here lately - that is until today.

Mom goes to work now so I get to stay home with Dad all day. We have lots of fun together.

Yesterday, Dad had to work. He works nights and sometimes 12 hours at a time so he's pretty tired when he gets home.

Since Dad had to go back to work tonight for 12 more hours (whew!) he had to sleep today. I thought Grandma Donna would come and babysit with me but she had to work today too! For a while I figured I would be home alone with Duffy. He sleeps all day too so he wouldn't be much help. But then guess who came over to babysit with me... Grandpa!!

Dad gave him lots of instructions about how to take care of me. I thought maybe this was the first time he ever did this stuff. After Dad went to bed, Grandpa and me started having some fun. First we played in the bouncy seat in the kitchen for a while. After that, I started to get hungry so Grandpa gave me a bottle for lunch.

Of course I had to see how good he was at changing diapers. I started out with a wet one just to break him in. He thought that was easy so I followed up with a brownie a little while later. He handled that ok and he thought things were going pretty good in the diaper department. I fooled him though because I saved some up from the #2 and nailed him again with another brownie right after he got me all buttoned up. That was pretty funny.

Grandpa turned on the TV and we watched some goofy kids show for a while but I didn’t like it much. Neither did he because then he changed the channel to a show that had some girls singing. The main girl was real good. She could really sing and she had a short skirt on too. I think her name was Tina Turner. Grandpa says I can probably sing that good when I grow up but if he sees me in a skirt that short I better have my long johns on under it – Ha!

After we watched TV for a while we did some other stuff. I ate another bottle and then I got tired and went to sleep.

I hope Grandpa gets to sit baby for me again some time.

This is me learning how to sing and dance watching a lady named Tina Turner.

Babysitters

Just when I thought things were going pretty smooth, Mom and Dad sprung another new trick on me.
Babysitters!
I have a nice routine going in the evening. A couple of snacks, some playtime and hit the sack around 8:30. I was ready for a regular night when Mom said that she and Dad were going out to dinner. That was ok with me. Duffy and I could stay home alone but who was going to give me my snacks? Duffy doesn't know how to open the refrigerator so it sure can't be him.
I was starting to get worried about this babysitter thing. I thought some stranger was going to come and be with me. When the doorbell rang I was out in the back with Dad and we went in the house to meet the 'babysitters'.
What a surprise! The babysitter was Grandma Donna! She had Grandpa with her too. So then Mom told grandma a bunch of stuff about how to warm my snacks and how to change my diapers and all kinds of other stuff. Boy, you'd think they were going away for a month.
As soon as Mom and Dad left to go to dinner, Grandpa started playing with me in my portacrib. I have a music box in there and it was playing lots of tunes. After a while I got hungry so Grandma gave me a bottle. I downed that one quick and asked politely for another. It took a while to get it because Grandpa was in charge of warming it up and he was taking his time. After I finished the second bottle I was tired of sitting on Grandma's lap so I read books with Gramps for a while. We read a book about some girl named Mary who had this little lamb that followed her everywhere - even to school (which was against the rules). Grandpa says it was against the rules because nobody wanted to pick up the lamb poop all over the schoolyard.
After I got tired of that I went for a ride in my swing which I really like. Pretty soon Duffy heard the car door and woofed that Mom and Dad were home. Mom came downstairs to see us in the family room. She was laughing because she caught the babysitters making out on the couch.
Babysitters are ok I guess.