Jesse Goble (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jgoble) wrote,@ 2005-05-29 11:34:00 |
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Date with Destanee
My sister had a wedding to attend yesterday. A co-worker or friend I think. I'm surprised by my lack of interest in knowing who was getting married as I usually pick up on these details through some form of osmosis or sub-rosa eavesdropping. With weddings of friends though, it's not considered a Good Idea to bring a child (I guess. Having no child nor attending many weddings I'm not sure about the etiquette) so Amanda tapped me to baby sit Destanee. The wedding was at 1:00PM and I was asked to show up at 12:00PM.
I showed up at 11:00AM as I thought that a non-distracted Destanee might find adventure getting underfoot as Dave and Amanda got ready. I showed up with Batman: The Animated Series Vol 3 and a couple of other movies that I had bought the year before. My appearance and Batman did the trick as she plopped down on the floor and began watching the first appearance in the Bruce Timm animated universe.
I talked a bit with my sister to find out what the current rules were (Destanee wasn't allowed to eat in the living room as she's been making a mess) and finding out what there was for me to make for lunch. She told me that while the wedding was at 1:00PM, the reception was at 6:00PM and was that a problem. I answered 'No' and she told me she wouldn't be there that long.
Destanee and I started the day by watching eps of Batman. After a while we went outside and I opened and dumped bags of sand into her sandbox. We then played in that. It was mostly building up a lump of sand and smoothing it (and listening to Destanee's unique enunciation of 'smooth') and then digging caves. Destanee informed me that bears lived in those caves so we needed to block them up to protect people. After a while she switched to the swing set and I pushed her on the swing. After that she wanted to run so I chased her for a bit and then she decided that she wanted to go for a long walk. So we walked down 1 and a 1/2 blocks, crossed the street, walked up 2 blocks, over a block, down 3 blocks, and had a fight. Destanee and I were having fun looking at birds and plants and lawn decorations. I would twirl her and we'd run for a bit. Then she started getting really silly, walking for steps one way and turning around to walk 6 back the other direction. I asked her repeatedly which way we should go and she just ignored me. So I decided and it turned out to be a direction that she didn't want to go. I didn't want to waver though as while I indulge her she does need to know that she can't always get her own way and that choices have repercussions. So she threw a fit and cried and said that she wanted her mommy. Eventually she walked back with me and we went home. I tried to get her to talk about why she was upset as she doesn't communicate this well. She just made up stuff like she was upset because she missed Abby and I knew that wasn't what she was upset about. Got her home and things were better. Made her lunch (Hot dogs) and stayed in as it started to rain. Destanee and I bounced on her bed for a bit. More correctly she bounced and I would knock her on her back. We then watched more Batman and because she wanted to see a kissing move and liked the dog on the DVD box, we watched 'The Truth about Cats and Dogs'. Then we played tea party. Well, she mostly played and handed me things that I pretended to eat. We built stuff out of lincoln logs and returned to watching Batman.
About 11:00PM I got a call from Amanda stating that her friends wanted her (and I assume Dave) to go out to a bar. Now I had been up since 5:45AM that morning and Destanee also tuckered me out. Also Destanee wanted to stay up till Amanda got home and I didn't want to live through the fight that would ensue when that wasn't going to happen. I explained both of this to Amanda and said that coming home would probably be the best. She called back about 10 minutes later saying that they REALLY wanted her to go out so I just sighed and told her that she needed to tell Destanee she wasn't going to be home for a while. Amanda convinced Destanee more easily than I could that she should lay down with a blanket and take a baby nap till Amanda got home. So we laid down and I passed out before Destanee did.
At some indeterminate time early in the morning Dave and Amanda came home. They weren't quiet but weren't loud and I only woke up enough to rule them a non threat and go back to sleep. I woke up around 6:00AM this morning, cramped from sleeping on the couch. Destanee was still on the floor in a rather strange position. I decided that I'd like to take a showed and sleep in my own bed so I got up and got my stuff together. I then picked Destanee up and put her on the couch and covered her up. She stirred to ask if I'd leave Batman and I told her I'd leave disc 4 as we didn't get to watch it all. She said ok and I told her to go back to sleep and dream of Batman.
Got home and took a bath and then fell asleep till about 9:45AM. Got up took another shower and well, here we are.
Things that I liked about last night: Destanee telling me that I could come over any time and bring DVDs, Destanee telling me that I make hot dogs better than Amanda. Just hanging around with a silly, bubbly girl that has a great imagination.
Things I should have done: Gotten some money so I could have taken Destanee to McDonalds for the milk shake she wanted.
My sister had a wedding to attend yesterday. A co-worker or friend I think. I'm surprised by my lack of interest in knowing who was getting married as I usually pick up on these details through some form of osmosis or sub-rosa eavesdropping. With weddings of friends though, it's not considered a Good Idea to bring a child (I guess. Having no child nor attending many weddings I'm not sure about the etiquette) so Amanda tapped me to baby sit Destanee. The wedding was at 1:00PM and I was asked to show up at 12:00PM.
I showed up at 11:00AM as I thought that a non-distracted Destanee might find adventure getting underfoot as Dave and Amanda got ready. I showed up with Batman: The Animated Series Vol 3 and a couple of other movies that I had bought the year before. My appearance and Batman did the trick as she plopped down on the floor and began watching the first appearance in the Bruce Timm animated universe.
I talked a bit with my sister to find out what the current rules were (Destanee wasn't allowed to eat in the living room as she's been making a mess) and finding out what there was for me to make for lunch. She told me that while the wedding was at 1:00PM, the reception was at 6:00PM and was that a problem. I answered 'No' and she told me she wouldn't be there that long.
Destanee and I started the day by watching eps of Batman. After a while we went outside and I opened and dumped bags of sand into her sandbox. We then played in that. It was mostly building up a lump of sand and smoothing it (and listening to Destanee's unique enunciation of 'smooth') and then digging caves. Destanee informed me that bears lived in those caves so we needed to block them up to protect people. After a while she switched to the swing set and I pushed her on the swing. After that she wanted to run so I chased her for a bit and then she decided that she wanted to go for a long walk. So we walked down 1 and a 1/2 blocks, crossed the street, walked up 2 blocks, over a block, down 3 blocks, and had a fight. Destanee and I were having fun looking at birds and plants and lawn decorations. I would twirl her and we'd run for a bit. Then she started getting really silly, walking for steps one way and turning around to walk 6 back the other direction. I asked her repeatedly which way we should go and she just ignored me. So I decided and it turned out to be a direction that she didn't want to go. I didn't want to waver though as while I indulge her she does need to know that she can't always get her own way and that choices have repercussions. So she threw a fit and cried and said that she wanted her mommy. Eventually she walked back with me and we went home. I tried to get her to talk about why she was upset as she doesn't communicate this well. She just made up stuff like she was upset because she missed Abby and I knew that wasn't what she was upset about. Got her home and things were better. Made her lunch (Hot dogs) and stayed in as it started to rain. Destanee and I bounced on her bed for a bit. More correctly she bounced and I would knock her on her back. We then watched more Batman and because she wanted to see a kissing move and liked the dog on the DVD box, we watched 'The Truth about Cats and Dogs'. Then we played tea party. Well, she mostly played and handed me things that I pretended to eat. We built stuff out of lincoln logs and returned to watching Batman.
About 11:00PM I got a call from Amanda stating that her friends wanted her (and I assume Dave) to go out to a bar. Now I had been up since 5:45AM that morning and Destanee also tuckered me out. Also Destanee wanted to stay up till Amanda got home and I didn't want to live through the fight that would ensue when that wasn't going to happen. I explained both of this to Amanda and said that coming home would probably be the best. She called back about 10 minutes later saying that they REALLY wanted her to go out so I just sighed and told her that she needed to tell Destanee she wasn't going to be home for a while. Amanda convinced Destanee more easily than I could that she should lay down with a blanket and take a baby nap till Amanda got home. So we laid down and I passed out before Destanee did.
At some indeterminate time early in the morning Dave and Amanda came home. They weren't quiet but weren't loud and I only woke up enough to rule them a non threat and go back to sleep. I woke up around 6:00AM this morning, cramped from sleeping on the couch. Destanee was still on the floor in a rather strange position. I decided that I'd like to take a showed and sleep in my own bed so I got up and got my stuff together. I then picked Destanee up and put her on the couch and covered her up. She stirred to ask if I'd leave Batman and I told her I'd leave disc 4 as we didn't get to watch it all. She said ok and I told her to go back to sleep and dream of Batman.
Got home and took a bath and then fell asleep till about 9:45AM. Got up took another shower and well, here we are.
Things that I liked about last night: Destanee telling me that I could come over any time and bring DVDs, Destanee telling me that I make hot dogs better than Amanda. Just hanging around with a silly, bubbly girl that has a great imagination.
Things I should have done: Gotten some money so I could have taken Destanee to McDonalds for the milk shake she wanted.
