Babysitting Lincoln

On Sunday evening, I found out that I was going to get the exciting new challenge of babysitting all day, Monday, (12 hours) for a new family in town. Their little boy, Lincoln, (age 1) needed to be taken care of, while the rest of the family went skiing in the mountains. I hadn't babysat alone before, so it was for the most part a new experience.
It was a long day, (and I was tired at the end of it) but I had fun, and was glad that I had the opportunity to do it. It was nice to be with a baby - since I am an aunt; deprived of being with my own nephew! :)
(This is the promised post of "*Newsflash* This Just In." and the reason I wasn't there to help when the family moved the new refrigerator in.)

Here is a picture of Lincoln drinking his milk.
Lincoln playing -watching and listening to his musical entertainment thingy.Lincoln playing toys.
He looks pretty tired in this picture. I was helping him crawl up and down the stairs. He thought that it was very strange that I was taking all of these pictures of him- especially this one!

Life from day to day

Life from Day to Day (the extras) -P.E. group, Bible Study, Babysitting, Scrapbooking (this post is a sequel to my post on September 15, 2007 – Life as a homeschool student)

One of the activities that some of the Johnstown-Milliken Homeschoolers participate in is a P.E. group that meets at least twice a month. In nice weather school months we meet in parks and play volleyball, soccer, kickball, baseball, flag football, and other games. The mothers lead the games/activities and we have a lot of fun. The younger kids always have a different activity or we play in two groups of the same game. Now that it is winter we can’t play outside, so the last two P.E. days we played at a Rec. Center in Windsor, CO (about 10 miles north of Johnstown). The first time there we were planing to play walley-ball, but didn’t have the right equipment or know-how. So we just hit a HUGE ball back and forth over the volleyball net. Last Monday (JAN 28) and this coming Monday (FEB 4) we are doing basketball at the Rec. Center. Last Monday we practiced dribbling, passing, and shooting, and this week I think we are actually going to play. We always start P.E. with warm-ups, then do the activity (with instructions), and then we have free time. What free time consists of depends on where we meet. For park P.E.s free-time would be playing on the play equipment, playing tag, catch, or something like that while the Mothers visit. For gym (Rec. Center) P.E. free-time consists of practicing what the activity was, playing other games (dodge ball, etc.) rolling across the gym on scooters. Our homeschool P.E. group is a lot of fun. I really enjoy doing it. I hope to get some pictures on Monday to put on the blog.

Our family has been meeting with several other families for Bible Study every other Sunday night. Over all we have had about 4-5 families at a time in the Bible Study, some have come, and some have gone. We have been studying our way through the Gospel of Mark. It is very uplifting and we love participating in it.

Lately we have been doing a lot of babysitting of Alia and Kara. This is a lot of work, but we make the best of it. Who ever is not doing school at the time plays with them; plus both of them have school different days throughout the week-so that makes it easier. Brenda Stevenson baby-sits most days each week for the Hays family. Over all it is very good training for "Miss Brenda".

When we can, Brenda, Emily, and I like to scrapbook. Brenda’s scrapbook is of Tim’s and her courtship. It is really nice. In my scrapbook are pages about graduations, Randy and Joy’s wedding, Quil (several pages about him!), Thanksgiving ‘05, Christmas ’07, other fun times, two pages display pictures of some girls in God’s Girls Newsletter, and two family pages that have family pictures from ’04, ’05, ’06, and ’07. The family page has the words of a nice song by Ron Hamilton, "Cherish the Moment". I hope to soon make a page about Daddy. Pictures coming soon.