Babysitting Grandkids is Educational for EVERYONE!

Larry has graciously allowed me to be a a guest blogger today.  Hello.  I am Sandy, Larry's wife.
I had to blog about my babysitting experience yesterday.  I babysat for my daughter, Heather.  She has four children.  Three girls and a boy (the youngest).  She and Dean were going to have an ultra-sound to find out the sex of their next child.  (Their 5th!  Due in July.)  I love to babysit it is always fun.  The girls were great.  They helped me clean the kitchen for Heather so I let them watch a movie.  They wanted to watch "The Sound of Music".  Well Emily didn't but she learned that majority wins.  I warned them that I knew the words to every song in the movie.  I proved it by singing along with all the songs.  They would look at me so strange.  Kind of like you look at an odd looking bug.  I had a great time.  Then the question was asked, "How do you tell if the baby is a boy or a girl in Mom's tummy"?  Gulp.  I threw the question back.  "What do you think?"  They just didn't know.  No idea.  "Well, how do you tell the difference between a boy and a girl"?  After I dispelled the notion that it had anything to do with long hair for girls or short hair for boys, or makeup, I finally had to spell it out for them.  You could literally see the light go on over Taylor's head.  Ohhhhhh.  Sometimes I wonder what they teach these kids.  All in all it was a fun time.  They learned that Grandma is weird AND the difference between boys and girls.  Oh, in case you all wondered, the new baby is a girl, although how you can tell anything from those ultra-sound pics is a mystery to me.

Comments

[Heather R.]

Sorry you had to be the one to spell that out to them! The conversation really never came up before. They have such great grandparents!