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Date: 05 August 2004 06:07:37
Time :: 4:00pm
Temperature :: -1 deg C
Fatal injuries sustained by baby :: ZERO
Conditions :: it looked very, very nice out there today, sunny and clear.
Well, just got back from the babysitting adventure, and I'm still alive and have all my fingers and toes. It wasn't too bad; it was a lot messier than I imagined (seriously, I reckon the baby ingested under ten percent of his food, the remainder being spread over himself, myself and everything else within a two-metre radius) but there was no nappy-changing involvement so that more than made up for it. Talk about answers to prayer!
What actually happened was that I spent the day with the Mum and her two kids, I looked after the baby while she was out skiing with the 3.5yo - but I went with her to the kids run and just hung around with the baby in the cafe. It wasn't so bad, all he did was eat, run around, bang stuff on the window, push anything that looked like a button (training to be a computer geek?) and then throw everything on the floor when it got boring. Which was about two minutes after he first laid eyes on it. Then he yawned and went to sleep in my arms, hugging me with his head on my chest, that was kind of nice.
I'm going back tomorrow, just for the morning.