Nothing like taking care of somebody else's baby to make me love my own 10x more. And also to make me re-realize just how hard taking care of newborns is.

This week I started babysitting for my best friend's sister Melissa. She has a 3.5 month old little girl (2.5 months age adjusted) named Eleanor. I told Melissa we could try it for a week and see how it goes. It's 3 days a week (2 days this week, actually), 4 hours a day. Today was day one.

Well. Suffice to say Eleanor is not happy with having to get used to yet another caretaker. Hopefully she'll get used to me soon...

She cried for the first hour. Then she fell asleep. Only to wake up 1/2 hour later crying. I knew that was NOT long enough of a nap (it never is if they wake up crying), so I kept her swaddled and kept rocking and holding her. She screamed and cried for another 1/2 hour before falling asleep again. This time she stayed asleep and was still asleep when Melissa got home.

Goooooood grief! It was so familiar. And I don't mean that in a good way. LOL. I reeeeaaally hope tomorrow goes better, or at least next Tuesday. If it doesn't get better by Wednesday, I think Melissa is going to have to find another babysitter. :( I hate to do that to her, but I know she does have several other friends. She's much better about that than I am.

Tomorrow I might try and find a way to transport our swing up there so I don't have to do all the rocking. It worked WONDERS for us when Micah was little.

Micah was great for most of the time. He basically just played by himself while I rocked little mis. During little miss's 2nd cryfest, Micah started crying too, for no other reason than that Eleanor was crying, and that made me start crying until I pulled myself together enough to figure out what to do. I finally put screaming Miss Eleanor down for a minute and plunked Micah into Melissa's jumper, where he happily entertained himself while I continued holding and rocking Eleanor. Whew!

And now I can profusely thank God that Micah is SO independent. That is a serious blessing. Also that he is past the screaming crying phase... For the most part...

Thank God for small blessings.

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