One of the distinct advantages of spacing your children out to the point that you have a teenager and a baby at the same time is that you have spur-of-the-moment-free-babysitting.

Bonny Annie is great with Cap’n Jack Henry.

They watch TV together…

She helped him trick-or-treat…

She taught him to dance on our kitchen table…

She even takes him to Tae Kwon Do class…

Yes, she is an attentive, patient, careful big sister, and I’m thankful to have her, and she can never go away to college or get married or leave me in general.

However, if I were her, I’d leave this photo out of my babysitting resume…

Of course, you may be wondering why I’m snapping pictures instead of rescuing my baby who could, at any moment, fall off the sofa.

I think he may be wondering that too.