Amost six years ago now, how time passes!!!

I got my first time alone with Vanessa tonight. Her Mommy and Daddy asked if I would watch her for an hour or so while they did a few things in town.

YOU BET!!!!!!!!! Could not say yes fast enough. They were not out of the driveway when she awoke crying bigggggggggggggg time. I did the obvious and checked her diaper, sure enough poopy. After the change I thought she would go back to sleep for a half hour or so till she was due for her next feeding. NOT!!!!!!!!!! Major crying, major mad!

So with this tiny tyke under one arm I tried to get her bottle warmed as the nipple for the bottle was boiling for the required time to sterilize it.....let me tell you....I did not go fast enough to suit her and you know the old saying a watched pot never boils.....she howled as we awaited the nipple sterilization and the warming of her milk I cuddled and rocked her and tried her pacifier to calm her - NOT. Boy does she know the difference between some thing that fills her tummy and that impersonal pacifier that gives nothing.

As she is a breast fed baby for the majority of the time she suckles the bottle way too hard and gets too much milk too fast. She choked after the first few sucks - tilt up, chin back, get her to breath again - she starts to cry - bottle to mouth again - too fast again - up on shoulder - she cries back to feeding position MORE FOOD her cry says! - make her stop again, this time she burps up some of the milk but a bubble of air also - back to bottle - burp time again, this time after a couple of gentle position changes and some rubbing, shazam, a nice big burp. Opppppssss as she starts to suck again she lets a wet one rip down below - by this time she has almost finished the last of her bottle so I undress her and change the second pooopy diaper - change her sleeper as it is wet around the neck from the wettttttttttt burp a while ago - as I am in the mist of the changes my phone rings - oh well - next thing I know Mom and Dad's car comes racing in the driveway and within seconds they are both stepping through my patio door - needless to say it was them phoning from a pay phone around the corner to check up on us and when the phone went unanswered they raced home....LOL.....how like brand new parents.

Upon checking her out off they went again to finish up their errands. Now I swaddled her and fed her the tiny amount that was in the bottom of the bottle and was sitting enjoying talking to her and telling her how beautiful and smart she was when her Mommy and Daddy came back.

And that is how my first baby sitting event went with Miss Vanessa.