Babysitting

Recently, I was asked to watch a neighbor of ours so his mom could go to a meeting for work.  We were planning on switching instead of paying someone to watch our kids.  His name is Simon.  His birthday in on the 2nd of March so they are pretty close to the same age.  They are great together.  With Simon being a little older he has taught Arlee a lot of different things.  She now knows that you can open the kitchen cabinets and climb on just about everything.  Talking to his mom, Audra yesterday I had to thank her for letting him come over so he can teach her all those things earlier then she would have probably figured it out by herself.  Of course, I was being sarcastic and we laughed about it.  Audra works from home for a neighbor and needed some extra help with Simon.  As I mentioned we were doing this as a trade off, but her boss insisted to pay me for the time spent watching him.  Honestly I don't mind and I wouldn't have accepted it had it been from her, but it has been great.  It is fun to babysit, but even more so if you get paid.  We are still going to be switching off, but I get paid.  : ) Total surprise, but Hans and I are really excited about it.  I think Arlee is too. : )