Friday, November 14, 2008

The Joys of Children

I promised my sister a while back that, sure I'll watch your kids for a weekend. No big deal right? With her four and my two it adds up to six kids - I informed Jay last night I am done at three. I seriously was in bed by 9:30. I don't think the little ones were even in bed yet.

We have had some funny moments though.

This afternoon I tried to put Chas down for a second nap (he refuses to sleep and I really don't know what is going on). I walked into the kitchen where the three older kids (a 3 1/2 yr old, a 2 11/12 yr old, and a 1 1/2 yr old) sat eating their cracker snack. They all had this funny look on their face and got really quiet.

Next thing I know I hear Scooter, our dog, chomping away on crackers. They were getting such a kick out of feeding the dog. Apparently this is just a right. Of course I couldn't keep a straight face - it was totally funny. So I told them nicely, OK we need to stop feeding the dog.

Well that works part of the time. I'm going to need an extra car just to get Scooter home next week - I guarantee he is going to put on 15 pounds!

3 comments:

Krissie said...

I'm glad you are having some fun watching the kids, but do remember, we use to feed strider all the time! It's just called love!

sally said...

Oh Krissie, I didn't get mad at them. I thought it was really funny. But the amount of food Scooter got yesterday would of fed Strider.

Jeni Allen said...

How fun for you. I actually enjoy doing that now. A mere five years ago I would have thought you were crazy!