Adventures in babysitting

Well, Saturday was my mom's birthday and today is my hubby's. As mentioned in my last post, we went out for dinner on Friday night with my mom and step-dad to one of our favourite local restaurants called Chinook. I love the food there! We had such a nice time.

Our babysitters definitely had their hands full! My hubby went and picked them up around 7pm, so they could meet and get comfortable with the kids before they went to bed. Since the Missus is a social butterfly, she loved the attention she was getting. The Love Bug is a bit shy and took a few minutes to warm up. But, he was comfortable with the babysitters in no time.

We put the Missus to bed before we left so our babysitters only had to deal with one kid. When we were leaving, the Love Bug said "Is daddy going to work?". We said yes since he is used to my hubby's shift work and knows that daddy goes to work at different times of the day. Then we told him that mommy was going to work with daddy, but we would be home in a little while. He gave us kisses and seemed fine.

We got our coats on and heard him ask the babysitters "Where did mommy and daddy go?" They replied "work" and he said "ok". We quickly left (around 7:45)

Apparently, just after we left, the Missus woke up because she pooped in her diaper. They changed her but couldn't get her onesie or sleepers back on...she is HORRIBLE to get dressed and always has been. They eventually abandoned the effort to get her dressed again (she went to bed with just an unbuttoned onesie on) and tried to put her back in her crib, but she kept crying to get out. Finally the younger babysitter said "we are just going to have to let her cry it out" to her older sister. They did and she was asleep in less than 5 minutes.

The Love Bug is a bit of a pain to get to bed because he often gets up several times before finally settling. And, he was true to form. Because of his frequent night visits, we have one of those childproof handles on the inside of his room on his door handle. His babysitter didn't realize this and while in the room with him, she shut the door. She had never used one of those door knobs before and couldn't get out of the Love Bug's room. Apparently both her and Love Bug were at his door softly banging on it and Love Bug was saying "help, help" to get her sister's attention. They didn't want to bang too loudly in case they woke the Missus up. I could just visualize the 2 of them at the door and it really makes me laugh, although I'm sure our babysitter didn't think it was funny at the time.

After they got Love Bug settled and asleep finally, they sat in the family room quietly not watching TV or anything in fear of waking the kids up. Thank goodness we weren't too late! Poor things, how boring would that be?!?

The next day we had 3 couples (friends from my hubby's work) over for a dinner party. Our baby sitter's parents were there and said the girls enjoyed babysitting and would be happy to do it again. I was kind of surprised 'cause it sounded like they had to work hard or their money. But, I'll happily take them up on the offer!