Fun with babysitting

When David, Natalia and Cayden were here, we adults took off for dinner and temple square and left Michaela in charge. We are at least 45 minutes away from downtown, so we let our neighbors/cousins/friends Jon and Carrie know so that if there was a problem, an adult would be close at hand. Michaela is a great babysitter, we weren't really worried, but it turned out she needed the help!

We were sitting in the restaurant when my phone rang. It was Michaela, and she was very distraught. Corrine had been standing on a folding chair when it collapsed, pinching her little finger in it. Michaela said it was bleeding a lot. I tried to assess how much "a lot" was by asking her to put a band aid on it and see if it bled through the band aid. I also told her to give Ninny some tylenol, because Ninny thinks that is a cure-all and I knew it would comfort her.

Michaela was still worried, so I called Carrie to see if she would mind walking over and checking out Ninny's finger. She said no problem. A few minutes later, my phone rang again, and Carrie told me that the finger was bruised and swollen with a little hole in it (poor Corrine!) but no hospital visit was necessary. Then she said, "There is one other thing" and starts laughing!

She reports that Ava had taken her Zhu Zhu pet and put it on her head.

At this point, I got a very clear picture, and told Carrie that I thought I knew where this was going.

You guessed it! For those of you who have gone unaware of the Zhu Zhu pet craze, they are little hamsters that have tiny wheels on the bottom, and roam around your house. Pretty cute, really.

Well, Ava had been trying to make Corrine feel better by making her laugh. She had set it on her head, the pet said "everybody out of the way" and ran...right into her hair! I am not sure if Corrine thought it was funny, but Carrie certainly did! She was laughing so hard she could hardly explain the damage: that the Zhu Zhu pet was hopelessly tangled in Ava's hair. Carrie had tried to get it out, but couldn't, so I told her she could cut it out. Luckily, it only caught a few hairs up at the top on the front, so the cut part mixed in with her baby hairs. I was so glad, because I have never cut Ava's hair and I love how long it is.

My kids told me that Carrie was just having fits of laughter at the situation. Carrie said it was a nice relief from the worry over Ninny's finger and lightened the mood.

Much thanks to Carrie for the help; I think I owe her some pumpkin bread!