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Thursday, March 20, 2008

Daddy's second shot at babysitting

Last night my friend Kristen hosted a birthday party for our friend Julie - we had a blast! It's been a while since I've been out with the girls without Daddy or Baby V. At one point we were singing and dancing to the "Lite Rock" channel - I'm sure Kristen's husband thinks we're a bunch of freaks! I didn't realize he was sitting in his office behind us until after we'd been through a couple of songs. Lite Rock...come on!!! I can't even remember the song I was rockin' out, but I just remember it was from my freshman year in highschool.
Anyway, that's not what I came here to write about, I came to write about the improvement of Daddy's babysitting skills. The last time he watched Virginia (when I went to bunko), I came home and V was in the swing at 9:30. I probably went overboard, it wasn't the end of the world, but it did present a challenge to get her moved to her bed and back asleep that evening and let's just say I didn't want a repeat of that night! So this time I was prepared - I gave him guidelines of her bedtime rituals and I intentionally stayed out until 9:30 so that he would have plenty of time to get her down and settled before I got home. I want him to succeed you see, and if I'm there I would just butt in and that's really not helping Daddy now is it?
I'm happy to report that I came home and this time she was in her crib fast asleep! Good work Daddy!!!

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