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.
Just put a few pillows under him and that way you can snap away without worrying about him falling.
I love seeing all of Braden’s, Benjamin’s and Ethan’s clothes getting use! I’m so glad JH is getting to wear them! Makes me smile!
My oldest turns 13 this month. 13. He can babysit. YAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Aww, I think he won’t roll off because he wants to be there cuddling with his big sister!
My oldest is 12 and yes, it is nice to have an extra set of hands & eyes!
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aaaahhhh, how cute and adorable!! Tell her, she’s hired. Of course, with my five, she’d never get to sleep and have to make sure they don’t tie her up with duct tape or lock her in the closet or something!!
I have two more years to wail until 13 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Have a great day!
I agree with you that spacing them out would be great for babysitting. Wish we’d thought of that sooner. There is no way a 10 year old and a 12 year old will let the 13teen babysitting certified brother even think he was babysitting them. Mutiny would occur with the first utterance of “Because I’m the babysitter….” They’d make him walk the plank.
I love the pictures and have to let you know we are in the midst of Witch of Blackbird Pond, too, as part of our Veritas Press history this year. Miss Dog Lover can’t get enough romance.
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They are too adorable! And I love that mine are spaced out. We often used/abused that babysitter aspect! But now my baby IS 13. So I ask her to keep an eye on Daddy when I have to run errands….
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