The Most Annoying Thing Yet!!!

Mosquito bites on my hands. It is the most annoying thing on the planet. At first I thought it was annoying to hear them buzz in my ears at night, but sleeping w/ my iPod ear buds in solved that problem.

I'm considering sleeping with gloves on or buying a mosquito net.

Last night was a funny night. Well at least between me and God it was. I babysat. The kids were 2 and 3 years old. It went great until I had to put them to bed. The kids parents are both musicians, so at bedtime their parents sing to them. They warned me that the kids may ask me to sing their favorite song, Away in a Manger. I thought...they are kids it won't be that hard. I got them in their beds, we read a few books, then they requested the song. So I started the song and couldn't remember it. I ended up making up the words. Then we said our prayers. I asked them if they say "Now I lay me down to sleep.'' prayer. They said yes, so I started it and couldn't finish it either.

I hope God got a kick out of it...I was laughing. I'm need to brush up on my skills before Mary Kathryn and Wade let me keep their kids. The good thing is that I have two years to practice.

Although I butchered bedtime last night, I consider it a successful babysitting night because no one was bit by a lizard, had diarrhea in their pants, went to the bathroom on the wall, called me a jerk, or hit me in the face w/ a snowball. Yes, all of those things have happened on various babysitting ventures.

The picture below is from a conference where me and some friends kept the kids while the parents went to the meetings. They are playing their favorite game that I invented. It's called "Who can pretend sleep the best?" It worked for around 15min. We played it everyday.

My spiritual word for this post: PARENTS PAY YOUR BABYSITTERS...WELL!!!!!! or bring them dessert home like the parents did last night. That was amazing.