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1/25/2008

Lessons in being with babies

Filed under: — alisa @ 8:42 pm

Yesterday was a very long day. Check that, this week has been very long, full of very long days. Yesterday though I over booked myself. But the end of my day was my favorite. My friends asked me if I would watch their 6 month old daughter, who is also my favorite baby, Emma for a couple of hours. I jumped on the chance and loved spending time with her and feeding her. During our time together I, like most any human being had to use the restroom. I look at Emma and ask her “Emma, what do your parents do with you when they have to go the bathroom?” She smiles and squeals at me for an answer. What do I do? I bring her with me into the bathroom. I put her down on the bathroom mat with a toy. She was fine the whole time, but I did confess what I did to Emma’s parents when they returned home. They kinda laughed at me and said I could of left her alone for a couple minutes since she isn’t mobile yet. This is not something you think to ask when the parents are going over the baby-sitter stuff before they leave. But next time Im asking “What do you do with the baby when you have to go to the bathroom?”

2 Responses to “Lessons in being with babies”

  1. Adriene says:

    Heh. I leave them on the floor in the living room.

  2. Meredith says:

    Hi Alisa,
    found your blog through Kari’s and Emily’s.
    I would even go as far as having taken a shower while I left them on the floor in the living room! (with my own child, I would not shower at someone else’s house while I was babysitting their child, just to clarify!)

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