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Week 180: Sitters, Photos, and Hobbies July 9, 2007
Well, we hit a milestone for Mandy this week: her first baby sitter. Ger and I went to a birthday party for an uncle Sunday night, and since her parents wanted to go as well we were deprived of our usual source of childcare. Fortunately a neighborhood girl stepped in to the rescue, and things turned out much better than Sammy's first experience with a baby sitter where we came home to find the house completely empty, both baby and sitter missing.
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Dealing with the sitter has always been Ger's thing, though, and I usually steer clear of it. But last night when the sitter rang the doorbell Ger was indisposed and so it was left to me and Sam to greet her. Unfortunately I couldn't remember her name, and just lamely said "Look, Sammy, it's the er... baby sitter ...person." Heck, I didn't even know for sure that she was the sitter. A door to door vacuum cleaner salesman could have rang the bell and I would have let him in so I could show him where all the diapers were kept and telling him that he could help herself to the soda in the fridge.
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Fortunately it wasn't and things went very smoothly. I think Sam was delighted that we had brought her this person who was actually being paid to do whatever she was told. Within seconds Sam was directing her activities in the area of how to bulid a proper train track NOOO NOT THAT WAY HENRY GOES IN THE TUNNEL ARE YOU STUPID? When we left Mandy was lying in her bouncy seat minding her own business and Sam was informing the sitter that she, Sam, was George and that the sitter was The Man in the Yellow Hat, except that she was also a monster and that she should chase her now. We tipped her well when we got back later that night.
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Making comparisons between Sam and Mandy has become kind of a hobby. We think we know, for example, if one of them is going to spend time in jail which one it's going to be. But I'm not saying. What's also fun is trying to recreate some of my favorite pictures of Sam with Mandy and see how they turn out. Take these of bath time in my Mom's sink, for example:
Or this one of the Most Patriotic Babies on Planet USA:
Everyone needs a hobby, and this is better than dressing squirrels up in little tiny clothes and having them reinact scenes out of history. Obviously.
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