Rough Week

This last week we babysat a family of 5 kids for a friend of a friend. We stayed at their house in Riverton and pretty much just tried to keep the kids alive. Our own child turned out to be the challenging one! We started our babysitting job early on Monday (the 15th). Zack started getting a cough on the Thursday before. By Sunday he was really miserable and sounded terrible! His nose also started running and by Monday he was coughing so hard he threw up everytime he ate. What a nightmare to be in someone elses home when your baby is sick!!!

Lucky for me the kids were all pretty good at taking care of themselves. Even the 2 year old didn't require a ton of attention. But it was hard juggling it all anyway! I was tempted so many times to throw in the towel and take my sick baby home but we some how got through it! We had Zack sleep in the closet because it was dark, quiet and it was a smaller room for his humidifier to fill up the room with moist air. One day he took a 3 hour morning nap and a 3 hour afternoon nap! It was glorious but I have to admit, I didn't know what to do. Occasionally the 2 year old would fall asleep so I got a little nap too. We got to come home on Friday and it is so nice to be home! We did have alot of fun. Kevin became good buds with the kids because he is fun and would play with them and wrestle them. They probably didn't think I was very cool because all I was worried about was cooking for them, cleaning up after them and keeping my baby alive.

One thing Kevin really enjoyed was their ginormous bath tub in the master bedroom. I didn't get a picture of him in it, plus our blog is "G" rated. But I caught Zack in it.

You can hardly see his head over the top of the tub.

All in all it was a good experience for us. It really made us want to add children one at a time. Not 5! And slowly as well. It was an adjustment to all the sudden have 5 more schedules to juggle. It was also fun to live in a huge house for a few days. Kevin really enjoyed having big kids to play with and tease. I... enjoyed going to bed each night!