Sitting Jobs

About a month ago I started babysitting 2 days a week for 9.5 hrs a day for a family close by (about an 8 minute walk away). The mom works from home, but I keep Jake happy and quiet. :) They like to leave classical music on during the day, but one day she left to go into the office and I put some Toddler Tunes on for a bit (bad me!) - but he loved it! This is me dancing and making a fool of myself to keep him smiling (he's teething) and he was pretty fascinated with the blinking timer light on the camera. I should also add that I was given a W4 on my first day of babysitting here...that was a first for me in my 15 years of babysitting!

Jake is 9 months old now and in the 100th percentile for head circumference. His mom said he is very "top heavy" and thus doesn't like to be on his tummy much. Therefore, he might end up walking instead of crawling first. He loves to stand and can balance for about 2-3 seconds at times by himself. It was fun helping him build these muscles and work with him on this. :) I had to take a few weeks off from babysitting him because of orientation, but my friend Stephanie (a child Occupational Therapist) is free on Thursdays, so she has been helping occasionally.

I haven't babysat for the other family in a while - the kids kept having snow days and I had interviews, so it wasn't really working out. There were a couple times that I got a text from the mom canceling while I was waiting in the cold for the bus - that was pretty frustrating, but I was just glad both times that happened I hadn't gotten on the bus yet.

Brian has been doing the dog walking for me still and plans to continue that for a little longer. We housesat for them a couple weekends ago, which went pretty well. Only 1 thing of ours was destroyed by chewing (Brian's insole - I think she was going for his snow sneaker but discovered the insole was more interesting!). They didn't bark much and were actually more well behaved while we housesat than when we walk them! They are the cutest beagles!! This is Millie, the younger more crazy one, on the left, and Baxter with the bone on the right.

That's all the updates in the sitting job world.