Definitely not because of that.
This past weekend I committed to baby-sitting the nieces while Pink and Cheese Cream spent one night out of town. Vye was around to help and it wasn’t any work at all. Mostly I ate mini-doughnuts I found in Pink’s pantry while Gailey and Ellie played with their little, plastic kitchen.
Ellie is learning to pick herself up and stand without assistance. She mostly chewed on the plastic pots and watched Gailey as she put fake foods in a coffee pot and cooked them in a microwave. Clearly she gets her kitchen skills from me.
(Tangent: Gailey and I may have gotten over an argument over whether or not "matoony" was a food. I was all MACARONI? and she was all, "noooooo matoooooony." Then I was all, "are you using your imagination?! I AM CONFUSED." But she insisted that matooni was a real and actual thing.
When Pink got home, she was way better at getting Gailey to communicate. She asked, in her awesome patient mom voice, "what's in matoony, Gailey?" and Gailey promptly produced two items from the microwaved coffee pot, put them on a plate and presented them.
Spaghetti and a hot dog.
Matoony.)
No work at all... until it was bedtime.
Gailey-bird has her own bed but she insisted on sleeping in between Vyelit and I that night.
“Mommy said I could sleep with you guys,” she cute-d. “She said it was a sleep over.”
And really, even though I’m 25 and she’s 3, I really can’t freakin’ argue with a “mommy said” statement, can I? So in she settled for the night.
The first moment I knew this wasn’t going to be easy was when her little three year old arm smacked the crap out of me as she whipped it to my side and patted me down. I was PISSED... until she patted all the way to my hand and then grabbed it.
I squeezed her baby-fingers and fell back asleep.
Next, I was laying on my stomach and I was acutely aware that Gailey was missing from next to me. I felt some movement in the bed before her head was landing on my butt, which she then proceeded to use as a pillow for an undetermined amount of time.
It was around this time that Vyelit totally quit (Gailey's feet were pushing into her back) and went to sleep on the couch, leaving me with G in the bed. Please recall that Gailey calls me Tati.
G: Tia Vyelit? Tia Vyelit?
Lor: Mmmm?
G: I want my Tati.
Lor: Mmmhmmm.
G: Tia Vyelit! I want my Tati!
Lor: Gailey, I AM Tati.
G: Oh.
…
G: Tati?
Lor: Mmmm?
G: I want my Tia Vyelit.
Vyelit eventually came back to the bed, but also shoved Gailey over close to me to open up space for herself. Her excuse was that she’s pregnant and my response was: SO?!
When it was time for Vye to get ready for work, Gailey was waking up. Please recall that Vye’s unborn child’s name is Mae-fly. (Er, her blog name at least.)
G: Tati, it’s time to wake up!
Lor: Noooooooooooooooooooo.
G: But, but, Tia Vyelit is up.
Lor: She’s going to work.
G: Oh.
…
G: Is she taking Mae-fly with her?!
Lor: What? Yes, of course.
G: *crying* But why? I’m going to miss her.
I was too sleepy to start arguing with her again.
The moral of the story?
Actual size of a 3-year-old:
Size of a 3-year-old in a bed:
As I relayed all these stories to Pink, she was cracking up. I mean, they are funny ha, but she was all HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
When she caught her breath, she managed to inform me that she never actually did tell Gailey she could sleep with us. She mentioned a “sleepover” but that the whole “sleeping in the same bed” thing was all Gailey's own doing.
I was had.
By a baby.
In other, non-babysitting news, I'm obsessed with the Olympics. I'm going to talk about them a lot. I watched all the trials this weekend and I'm just crazy, stupid excited about the fact that NBC is streaming all of the medal events.
Which events am I a fan of? ALL OF THEM. From archery (the woman who coached Jennifer Lawrence for the Hunger Games is going to the Olympics!) to wrestling (I vividly remember Rulon Gardner running around with an American flag in Sydney. Weird.) Yes please!
Yes, I will cry while watching every single mother-effin' Morgan Freeman Visa commercial.
All those "Raising an Olympian" commercials? CRY.
I may have even tear-ed it up when Nastia Liukin was crying and waving to the crowd, saying goodbye and thank you, during the trials this weekend.
Crap. I'M AN OLYMPIC PANSY.
Just thought you all should know.
I like all of your gold-medal faces.
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Kids are like that, and I don't trust them anymore. I was babysitting for my four year old niece, and she said that her mum said she could have crisps. I didn't believe her though and didn't let her have any, and then her mum came home and it turns out she really was allowed them. I just never listen to kids when they say "mum said". It's impossible to argue with it, ignoring it is easy though.
My little cousin always tried getting me to do that when I'd babysit him. "But mom saiddddd~." Yeah, well mom also said that YOU TAKE UP THE WHOLE BED; go to your own.
I haven't seen anything about the Olympics at all. Well, aside from the Aussie guys posing with guns on photos on Facebook which confused me until I learned they had a bit of a darker past. I don't know how that's possible, though.
Lordy, I might have shed a few tears from laughter Lor! I completely understand your pain!! My daughter does the exact same thing to me, except she tries to crawl in every dang night. The cuddles are cute at first, but the grunting and snoring and stealing of the entire damn bed is a little less cute. The weird thing is, if you look at her in her own bed when she sleep? Yeah she's curled up into a tiny little ball.
When Little Miss A stays over, she sleeps with my mum, and my dad has to sleep in the spare room. The problem with this is that my mum is a nightowl, and Little Miss A likes to wake up at 5am. So my mum keeps a muesli bar and a colouring book next to the bed, and has taught Little Miss A that if the clock says anything smaller than 7.00, she is UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES TO WAKE NANNY UP. This regularly leads to hilarity, especially since A's word of the moment is "Seriously???". It's like having a mini Izzy Stephens in the house. You know, before she went crazy and started having sex with the ghost of her fiance...
ANYWAY. I Olympics-ed myself out waaaaay back in 2000. Because the Sydney Olympics was on during school holidays, so I basically just sat in front of the TV all day every day watching it. And I haven't really watched any Olympics since. Thankfully the time difference this time means I'll have a legit reason to not watch. YAY.
Oh, also? Matoony is an actual thing here (and in the UK): http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/tesco-price-comparison/tinned_pasta/heinz_spaghetti_with_sausages_in_tomato_sauce_400g.html You're welcome for that brain explosion.
(Obviously, I meant that the ingredients IN matoony are an actual product. Not that there's a product called matoony. That would be way cooler)
Cats also take up the whole bed. I don't get it!
And I have been Olympic obsessed too. I was so sad for Nastia. Love her and sad to see her not make the team but she's still amazing.
OMG THE MOM COMMERCIALS ARE THE WORST.
Also, everyone does this when they're children. As a little kid, I once conned my grandmother out of $5 when I was visiting her and lost a tooth. My aunt encouraged me to tell her I normally got 5 bucks from the tooth fairy. And it worked.
Aww, your nieces are adorable.
I'm also obsessed with the Olympics. The trials are making me feel lazy. I swam when I was a kid, and it's making me miss swimming.
Hahaha you rookie. First rule of over night babysitting... Get the kid in their own freaking bed! My niece used to wedge her toes IN MY ASS when she shared my bed (strange child) I have become quite skilled at letting her fall asleep there and manoeuvering her into her own bed when it's my bed time without her waking up. The trick is to make sure her bed is warm! Love Elle xo
I thought butt-as-a-pillow was bad but I'll admit that toes in the butt is WORSE.
OKAY, FINE EVERYONE. I MADE A NEWB MISTAKE.
But she's just so darn cute.
Oh, goodness. Let's not even get started on how lazy the Olympics make me feel! Slightly inadequate. Especially when it's all "15 year old Olympic hopeful..." REALLY? 15. OMG I FAIL.
Glad I'm not the only one. The moms get me every time.
I think the moral of this story is that next time G wants to sleep next to me, I'm going to give her $5 not to.
Yeeaaaah.
This is probably why I have not cats. This and crippling allergies.
Nastia was super classy about it all. She was the best in the world and it's just so sad to see her fall that way just four years later. Her beam exercise was beautiful though. She's so graceful. She's really an A+ athlete.
I read the first part and I was all NO. OMG GAILEY IS A GENIUS HOW DID SHE KNOW? I was really excited about there being a food named matoony. Ingredients are still pretty cool though. That kid's a top chef.
Also, you can NEVER be Olympics'ed out. The Olympics are sad, K. They want another shot. They just want to be your friend.
Girl, I don't know what I'd do if this were an every night thing.
AND I KNOW! Gailey normally sleeps in a little toddler bed that would probably only fit one of my legs. Get her on a big bed? She's suddenly all over the place. Aren't kids the best? :)
LOL. I'll try that line next time with G.
I didn't see the Aussie guys thing, weirdly. The trials were just on this past weekend so you haven't really missed much. I just love watching every moment. *crazy obsessed twitch*
I'm going to start asking Pink to tell me all the things she's said G could do/have. Yeah. This is a good plan.
I'm so excited about the Olympics, too. Especially the online streaming because it means I don't have to miss any of the events while I sit at work and do nothing. Hooray! :)
"definitely not because the other side may be populated with my lap top, a book, the throw pillows and possibly pants" <--- Me, all. the. time.
Your drawings are completely accurate, and it is why I refuse to sleep with my much younger siblings even to this day. They used to keep me awake all night any time my mother put them in bed with me. Super duper annoying.
I haven't had time to watch the Olympics!! Must watch some soon.
I used to have to sleep with my little cousin when I was younger. She always slept right against me. In the middle of the night, I'd walk around to the other side of the bed with all the room. In her sleep, she'd follow me.
Haha I have to agree, being from Sydney I was pretty olympics-d out in 2000 also. Especially since even the parts that weren't on during the holidays were shown at school. It was good we missed out on classes since the teachers were so interested, but still. Haven't watched it much since.
That was basically my exact thought process. Olympics at work? YES PLEASE. We can tweet each other reactions and updates. It'll be great.
Single girl habits. It's a beautiful thing.
Ah, younger siblings. My "little" sister still to this day would rather sleep in my bed then her own, which just baffles me. I always kick her out. ;)
That is 1.) hilarious and 2.) kind of creepy. I love that you'd get up and walk over to the other side. I'm the type of person that is too lazy to get up for anything in the middle of the night. Have to pee? Better hold it. Too cold? Better shiver. Etc.
This whole "Olypmics-d out" concept is mind boggling. MIND BOGGLING I SAY.
Is sleeping with a baby kind of like sleeping with a pet? Because every time I've let an animal sleep on my bed, I end up occupying the tiniest portion of said bed. Especially if it's a cat. Because cats just don't care.
My sister once slept with an Olympic archerer (?) ...I don't know if I'm allowed to tell that story because she just got married. Oh well.
Oh wow - i think i was quite a kicky little one when I was a baby as well. But I love that she tricked you - CLASSIC 3-year old. Although the fact that you fell for it....also funny.
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Wow. Some kids haha. I'm impressed that she pulled one over on you...but then again, who would suspect any sneakiness from a little kid? They always have such innocent faces...until their feet are kicking you square in the back. Hope you get some better rest soon!
The part about your butt and Mae-fly made me laugh-cry so much. I can't wait for these moments!
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