Actually, to be perfectly honest, it wasn't too bad. I think we handled the day pretty well. We put together three puzzles, drew monsters, played tic-tac-toe, played a little dress-up while taking pictures (which was really more like just make funny faces at the camera), tried to burn down the house, listened to Bob the Builder in German, play more hours of cars than you could possibly imagine, ate lunch, went grocery shopping, created a huge lump on his forehead, played with his roller outside, and lots of other things.... Did you notice the two that didn't match in the list? Yeah, those would be those lovely little things that happen when you are watching a 5 year old boy who has no level of concentration what-so-ever. Haha. Anyway, so, for some reason, Jonathan decided it was a good idea to put one of his sisters stuffed animals in her lamp. Yeah, in the lamp! So, I was cleaning up from our last playing game and I smelled something not so good. Yeah, that would be the fur of the stuffed dolphin melting against the lightbulb. Yeah. Great. Anyway, so his sister's dolphin has a nice big burn hole on it's tummy now, but I caught it before there was an actual fire. So everything is good. I called Anette right after getting the situation under control and she said that it's not a big deal and those kind of situations happen, but at least nobody got hurt. She would have been more worried if Jonathan, Ann-Katrin, or I had gotten hurt and said that it is just stuff and stuff can be replaced. So, good mom said it was fine and at least nobody got hurt.
So, speaking of nobody getting hurt.....haha. Jonathan said he was hungry and I said it was okay to have a snack and I went down to get it set up on the table for him. Then, a few moments later I hear him crying like he got hurt. I ran up the stairs in order to find that he had run his head into the metal part of the door trim where the handle latches. Ugh. So some ice, a little cream, and a band-aid later, he's good as new....except with the addition of a big lump. But, once again, everything turned out alright and I think we did pretty well considering. Now I will show you a little of what we did this morning:
So, now to talk about what's going on here with my Au Pair job and all. Today was one of those lovely days where Jonathan had no Kindergraten. Luckily enough, that only happens twice a year (when it's not a holiday, I mean) and it's for teacher meetings, etc. Actually, today and tomorrow are both free days. So, this means that I have to entertain Jonathan alone from 7:30 in the morning till the afternoon when Ann-Katrin gets home, and then take care of both of them until Anette gets home from work at 6ish. Yikes! Today was even a little bit more stressful because, instead of getting home at 1:30 like normal, Ann-Katrin got home at 4 because she had theatre after school. Ugh! (I'm still happy that Ann-Katrin got into the theatre program though!) Well, at least tomorrow will be not as long or as stressful.
Actually, to be perfectly honest, it wasn't too bad. I think we handled the day pretty well. We put together three puzzles, drew monsters, played tic-tac-toe, played a little dress-up while taking pictures (which was really more like just make funny faces at the camera), tried to burn down the house, listened to Bob the Builder in German, play more hours of cars than you could possibly imagine, ate lunch, went grocery shopping, created a huge lump on his forehead, played with his roller outside, and lots of other things....
Did you notice the two that didn't match in the list? Yeah, those would be those lovely little things that happen when you are watching a 5 year old boy who has no level of concentration what-so-ever. It's a little bit like I was when I was 5.....hmmm. Haha. Anyway, so, for some reason, Jonathan decided it was a good idea to put one of his sisters stuffed animals in her lamp. Yeah, in the lamp! So, I was cleaning up from our last playing game and I smelled something not so good. Yeah, that would be the fur of the stuffed dolphin melting against the lightbulb. Yeah. Great. Anyway, so his sister's dolphin has a nice big burn hole on it's tummy now, but I caught it before there was an actual fire. So everything is good. I called Anette right after getting the situation under control and she said that it's not a big deal and those kind of situations happen, but at least nobody got hurt. She would have been more worried if Jonathan, Ann-Katrin, or I had gotten hurt and said that it is just stuff and stuff can be replaced. So, good mom said it was fine and at least nobody got hurt.
So, speaking of nobody getting hurt.....haha. Jonathan said he was hungry and I said it was okay to have a snack and I went down to get it set up on the table for him. Then, a few moments later I hear him crying like he got hurt. I ran up the stairs in order to find that he had run his head into the metal part of the door trim where the handle latches. Ugh. So some ice, a little cream, and a band-aid later, he's good as new....except with the addition of a big lump. But, once again, everything turned out alright and I think we did pretty well considering. Now I will show you a little of what we did this morning:
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