There are two things that give me great satisfaction when caring for the girls. One is getting a nice, juicy, booger from their nose. The other is getting a monster burp out of them. Now I'm not talking about a little weenie burp, but one of those giant ones. Like if you didn't see the little baby beast it came out of, you'd think it was a fat trucker dude that just downed a can of beer. These burps shake the ground you walk on.
So what is more satisfying? I'll let you decide!
My Case for Boogers
Boogers aren't a daily or even weekly occurrence, but when one of the girls has some cloggage in their nose. It is up to me to dig it out. Sometimes you need a little saline, sometimes you just need some real patience. You also need the right tools. Some of those bulb things are useless...I mean the tips of them are bigger than the girls nostril! Your pinky fingernail is also a great tool. Anyway, you really need to get the right suction, the right angle, and if still doesn't come out you need the right length of fingernail to finally dig it out. These girls' boogers are giant, slimey and long. No wonder they have trouble breathing! Sometimes I feel like it is a magic trick where you think the booger ends, but it just keeps coming out of their nose.
My Case for Monster Burps
The monster burp has already been described above. Just imagine patting a little 12 pound baby on the back and all of a sudden you are deafened by a sonic boom. Yeah they burp at every feeding, but when you got the real whopper...you just step back and say how the heck did she burp that loud? It is really amazing. It's even better when they don't barf all over you after the burp.
I need to find a job and stop writing on this blog...
12/13/07
Nanny Situation
Here is Yolly our first nanny
So as some of you may know, we had to start looking for a new nanny in November because Yolly had to have surgery. We LOVE Yolly, and she is so good with the girls. She does so much...but we had to find someone else. So we started interviewing, and after talking to five other nannies, we settled on someone. Unfortunately, we settled on the wrong person. Talk about a difference in productivity. Yolly walks in the door washes her hands, starts filling the sink with water to clean the bottles, starts warming up the bottles, and changes/diapers the girls. Our other nanny, we'll call her Gee didn't do that much work in an hour. From the moment she walked through the door until she had both girls changed and diapered...it was a good 30 minutes. No joke...and that is it. She didn't think to start warming the milk or start the laundry or anything else. Plus she didn't take the girls on a walk once in two weeks! The girls LOVE their walks and sleep soundly, even when it is cold out.
We had Yolly come in on a weekend to babysit for three hours. She fed the girls, changed them, did their laundry, ran our dishwasher, put away the dishes, cleaned the floor, folded and cleaned up the blankets on our couch, did the girls dishes, and basically tidied up everywhere. All in three hours!
A Quick Comparison:
Yolly - Walks the girls daily
Gee - Never walked them
Yolly - Laughs
Gee - No laughs
Yolly - Happy
Gee - Not happy
Yolly - Gets the girls to sleep so they aren't crabby in the evening
Gee - Tried to do this, but the girls got so used to her holding them they won't sleep in their crib during the day anymore.
Yolly - Plays with the girls, talks to them
Gee - A dang mute!
Yolly - Thinks nurturing and caring is the most important thing
Gee - Thinks keeping them quiet and sleeping is the most important thing
Yolly - We trust her
Gee - Not so much
Anyway...we have Yolly back for a week. She's going to get some more tests done to see if she really needs the surgery. If not, we get her back for good. If she does need it, we get to look for someone else!
12/8/07
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