Friday, March 17, 2006

"Cage Fighting",,,,

Tonight I am babysitting 8 year old boys...
A Run Down of tonight:
Dinner: 3 corndogs and 2 cans of Sprite each.
Dinner Conversation: The skinniest and most awkward of the bunch says, "At school Kids pay me money to eat different kinds of stuff." Classic.
Dinner Entertainment: Poking their soda cans with pens and shooting the contents in the general direction of their face. (This is when dinner was moved to the back patio)

Post Dinner activities:
I hear a heavy amount of scuffle coming from upstairs. "Hey Guys, what's going on up there?!" Silence. I head in the general direction of the silence....They had pulled the puppy kennel cage up stairs and were now attempting to "cage fight" the golden retrievers. The dogs look up at me, as if saying, "for the love of god, please stop them."....I do.

Post Cage Fighting activities: Boys come in from the garage, "Hey Rosie where is the drill and hammer?" Why? "Were making a bobsled in the garage." Oh, of coarse, silly me for asking....30 minutes later ROSIE is sitting in the garage finishing said bobsled project (aka a piece of wood attached to wheels), while the boys break stirafome against their heads. When I'm done I say, "ok, she's done." To which they scream, "It's not a girl, it's a boy!!!" To which the angry babysitter with a bleeding thumb replies, "Hey! Not only is it a girl, but her name is Rosie!!"

Now, They're coloring flames and lighting bolts onto the louge/bobsled/long board as I type this. And they just informed me, "There's this girl up the street that might sell us a scooter motor for it!"

I wish I was an eight year old boy. Tonight, I guess I was.

4 comments:

JP said...

first of all, i just woke up from passing out when i saw joeys freaking profile picture. its so disgusting i feel like i can smell it.

but mostly, you are freaking hilarious. i love reading your blog more than any others (sorry everyone), and it sounds like you had a hell of a night, in a good way. esme's pushing the soda can activity, and owens pushing scratching her to death.

Matt Pool said...

man that took me back to the days. i can't wait to have eight year olds to play with.

Linna said...

are you coming here to OR?

d. vanheule said...

priceless