My Archives: July 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The past few days have been boring if relatively uneventful. On Sunday I went to babysit because Steve and Heather had a concert to attend in Philadelphia. We played outside in the backyard for a while, kicking around soccer balls for a while and making "grass angels". When it was time to go inside, Mara was really upset but I made them noodles for dinner and ice cream for dessert. Brendan spent the rest of the evening on kidsastronomy.com reading about the different planets and their moons (he's really taken an interest in outer space) and playing on weather.com (no idea why). His sister just ran around playing for a while and I got out the coloring books for her to do again. I sat in between them, coloring pictures of Wall-E with Mara and listening to Brendan read about the planets.
Heather had said it was okay to let them take showers the previous week, so I brought them upstairs at 8:45 and let them both take showers in their parent's bathroom. They were pretty good about it except Brendan was trying to splash me and Mara didn't want to stand in the direct flow of the water so I had to do the best I could with trying to get the soap out of her hair once I put it there (before realizing she wasn't going to cooperate so well with letting me wash it out -.-;;).
Brendan ended up breaking the little ceramic tooth brush holder while he was brushing his teeth and he totally freaked out. I guess he thought his parents were going to flip out on him when they found out. I told him I would explain to them that I saw him do it and it was clearly an accident. They ended up not caring when they actually did arrive home. :-)
Last night I was at Matt's house and we watched Red Planet, a movie about a mission to Mars. It was awesome, though I heard it got bad reviews. I didn't care; I liked it anyway. Maybe it's my minimal knowledge of outer space!
Tonight is more babysitting. I need to get clothes out of the dryer and go shower up. Later!
Posted by Katie @ 03:57 PM EST [Link]
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Babysitting for Heather went really well today. We did lots of things, played with blocks, puzzles, Candy Land, and coloring in giant Wall-E and Disney coloring books. At first they were doing it with multi-colored sharpies and red pens until I found some crayons on the book shelf. But they ended up preferring the sharpies anyway even given the option of using crayons. I gave them dessert because Brendan ate all his noodles for dinner and Mara ate all her cereal, so Brendan got cheese and Mara got a waffle and they both got a little chocolate milk. They had a good day, and they were even good in the bath tub. Mara didn't scream or cry at all, she just didn't seem to want to sit down while I washed her hair, and she didn't want to stay in long afterward. Brendan was, of course, crazy with brushing his teeth. I think because he knows after that he has to go to bed.
This makes me think about how I had babysitters when I was little, like Mara's age and younger. I had babysitters who gave me baths, potty trained me, prepared me meals, and likewise for my little sister, and ended up going to my graduation party. I've known two of them in particular for almost my entire life, since as long as I can remember. I hope that's what ends up happening with this family. Besides, seeing Brendan and Mara when they're teenagers is going to be quite scary / interesting! I'm still waiting for my little cousin's voice to start cracking, and he's 12 and a half. :3 Ha ha. Speaking of my cousin, I used to bathe him and play with him when he was four years old and even younger, so that's another example of me seeing a child grow up over the years. There's nothing more mind-boggling than that.
I'm really going to miss Brendan and Mara when I go back to State College next month. I hope they write me letters again and send me pictures. It meant so much to me seeing those things coming to me in the mail. Mara's getting old enough now that she can draw me pictures (really it is just scribbling, but the concept's there). She'll be 3 in February. And Brendan is turning 6 on August 11th, the day we are anticipating moving to Penn State! That's kind of depressing. :(
Posted by Katie @ 09:39 PM EST [Link]
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
I walk around these days with a cloud of exhaustion surrounding me. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have adopted nocturnal behaviors. For example, it is about 2 AM, and I have a doctor's appointment at 8:30. This would not be the first time I have stayed up all night long, and it would not be the first time I have stayed up until a ridiculous hour. I know it is horrible for my health as I do need sleep, and I should not be going to sleep at 4 AM and waking up at 2 PM because I will not be able to do that once school starts, but I do it anyway. Just one more way in which I am crazy.
Every day I keep wishing the end of summer would arrive already. I am so bored with being practically unemployed and sitting around most of the time not making money and having certain family members hate me more and more as a result. Plus I am really sick for University Park. I miss it and I miss the people and the campus. It is just a fun place and I cannot wait to go back. No matter how stressful school becomes, it has got to be better than this.
I do not know if I want to pull another all-nighter. It might be better if I just do not go to sleep because if I do, I will never be able to get up again. We shall see. :(