You ladies are so going to gigle at my baby sitting experience:

Poor little Bella has been so sick and Mum and Dad went through everything with Danni and I, we had to practically usher them out of the house and assure them that IF Bella was really distressed or seemed to be burning up or something we would call them straight away. They said they'd be home by 9 - we just told them to take their time, not too rush and again assure them IF there were any problems we would call them.

BTW Boss was so taken back by what we did we thought he was going to loose it he got quite emotional and his wife wsa a bit shocked too.

SO they nervously left and we made extra careful that Bella didn't notice (she is sick so very clingy to mum and grissly) so we fed her, changed her played with her but she decided to pick ME out of the two of us, a bit like a cat really you know how they just choose someone? anyway Bella chose me the person with the least baby experience.

Her nappy change was funny thankfully just wet and so here i was with the nappy and stuff and i just go what the hell am I doing? Danni said haven't you ever changes a baby before - Uh no - so she talked me through it and Bella was crying and wriggling (apparently she hates nappy changes atm) she wasn't even dressed and was doing the UP thing with her hands and Danni was say she wants up and I am like No Bella not until your dressed.

fastt forward to a bit later she gets grissly and doesn't want Danni around her she wants up on me so I pick her up and do the bouncy thing and rub her back and she snuggles her head into my neck and is happy like this for an hour.

Mind you its WAY past her bed time. She then gets grissly again and we cannot figure out what is wrong and as she is teathing Sam said sometimes she just gives her some Neurfen (sp?) so we give her her dose and after a while she settles.

OK bed time - she crys and crys so we are like "we'll leave her for 5 min if she is still crying we'll get her and bring her back out" seriously 30 seconds later Bella was out with the big girls again

Anyway we are all on the floor around her play rug and we make a little nest out of pillows and we're watching this movie and you could see Bella is really fighting to not go to sleep.
After a while we are lying down and Bella just kept looking around at me so I kind of pushed (not hard) her over on to her side facing me, gave her her teddy and lay down next to her with my head near hers. she put her chubby little hand out so she was kinda touching me and fell asleep. 9.15 pm

Mum and dad come home and crack up coz it looks like Bella's first slumber party, they look so relaxed and mum puts bella to bed.

I hope they got a good nights sleep - I know I did I was stuffed.

So my first baby sitting with a sick baby wasn't too bad it has really reinforced how much I want to be a mummy just looking at Bella sleeping next to me with her little hand touching mine was so lovely and listening to her breathing even though she is really congested was just sweet.

please please let 2009 be my year

NNx x x

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