End of an Era

I found out this morning that my babysitter is no longer my babysitter. She has decided to take a job with her uncle that will pay her a WHOLE lot more money, and she'll get to go to school at the same time. She needs to get some higher education, and she needs to see how life is after high school, while her child is off to Pre-K. She doesn't need to sit around and wonder what he's doing all day while sitting at home with other kiddos... even if one of them is mine. I'm happy for her, and at the same time, terrified. Now I have to find a replacement for the best thing that could have ever happened to my child. God directed us to her two years ago, and now I'm asking Him again for guidance in the right direction. We have one recommendation from the sitter, but I'm not completely sold on her yet... I guess tomorrow is an on-the-phone day, calling everyone I know to put some feelers out there. We'll see what I get.

In other news, the student of mine that is like my child had her baby last week, and I got to go see them yesterday. She is absolutely beautiful! The little baby girl looks just like her mom, and she is great! I'm so proud of them both!

Quick Clean

Know the fastest way to get your house clean?

Invite someone to come over that you've never met before. If you already know the person you invite over, you won't clean, because they know you're lazy anyway. But if you don't know the person coming over very well, then they don't know that you're lazy and don't like to clean. So, you have to make a feeble attempt to look like you're not.
Of course, I think the dishes in the sink that didn't make it into the dishwasher before they got here probably gave me away.

Accomplishments

Today I emptied the dishwasher, loaded all the dirty dishes into the once empty dishwasher, and put off doing everything else so that I could go swimming in the pool with Little Man. (Because after two weeks of being under repair, it is finally swimmable!) And today we had a first! He didn’t freak out when he got water in his mouth, and we’re working on kicking and paddling all together. He even let go of my hand and "swam" (with floaties) to the steps by himself! Three times! I’d say that was a full day.

What is a cebu anyway?

My mother warned me a few months ago that the little cute television shows that Little Man was watching then wouldn’t be what he wanted to watch pretty soon. I’m okay with that, except if it means that we start watching shows that I don’t really want him to watch yet, like Sponge Bob or other cartoons made for older children. We shall see. But for now, Little Man has decided that he has a new favorite movie. We have been infatuated with Finding Nemo for a little over a year now, and he still really like it, but now he wakes up asking to watch the space man and the Cowboy. What a boy. Now that it’s summertime, the television stations know that no one is home watching tv, so on Saturday nights, they have been playing Disney Movies. It’s been fun. So, we’ve been using our DVR and have been recording the movies, and for the past two weeks, the movies were Toy Story 1 & 2. Now that we have it recorded, I don’t even have to go and get the DVD out, all I have to do is push a button and the space man comes back. It’s fun. He gets so excited, and if you’re not in the room watching it with him, he’ll run around to find you so that he can tell you about what’s going on at that point in the movie. He also likes to be a space man himself. He’ll dump out all of the 30+ pieces in the Mr. Potato Head Family Bucket, and then put it on his head and tell me he’s a space man. "Wook at me, Mommy! I space man!" He’s funny.

He also likes to watch any of the Veggie Tales videos. His wonderful aunt bought him the Ultimate Silly Song Collection and now he has a few favorite songs that he asks to hear. Then his Grandmama bought him the CD so that he can listen to it in the car, and now all we hear about are hairbrushes, cheeseburgers and cebus. And what is a cebu anyway? According to Larry the Cucumber, it’s the cousin of a bull… like a cow. Just watch the multi-media event, then you’ll know. Cebu-moo-moo, achoo-moo-moo, boohoo-moo-moo, cebu-moo-moo, cebu-moo-moo , cebu-moo-moo-moo-moo.

Birthday Wishes

Just a quick note to tell you all to go to my little sister's page and wish her a very happy birthday! I won't tell you how old she is today, because that would then imply how old I am, and I try very hard to hide that... :)

Go see her! Wish for her great things!