Tonight I had to work. Joslyn's sister, Holly, and her five children are down from Alabama (that makes 11 children!!) so Joslyn asked me to bring Shelbie with me. It was really easy, all of the children are really well behaved and super calm. Our only "mishap" was when Holly's 2-year old got locked out of the house. We had all been playing outside, around 8:00-ish and I finally decided to bring them all in and lay Hudson (Joslyn's two year old) and Addie (her 1 year old) down. Little Timmy had been upstairs with me when I was laying Hudson and Addie down, but he went downstairs after a few minutes to be with Shelbie and the other kids. When I finally made it downstairs, I put a movie in for all the kids and popped some popcorn for them. Since there were so many children, I didn't even notice that Timmy was missing. After several minutes we heard some faint crying from their back porch. Everybody looks outside and said, "Ohhh...Poor Timmy is locked outside!" We brought the poor little guy in, and he was a blubbering mess. I felt so bad! We made him a chocolate bottle and gave him some popcorn, and he soon quit crying and forgot the whole situation. Still, I felt like a horrible babysitter! I practically rang Shelbie's poor neck, since she didn't see him get out, but after a few minutes of talking about it, we realized their bathroom door (which leads to their back porch) was opened. So apparently, Timmy had gone downstairs, ended up in the bathroom and went outside, locking the door behind him! So, I guess it wasn't totally all my fault!! (I did feel better later though, one of Holly's little girls, Jossy, said, "You are a fun babysitter. I really like you." I said, "Oh, well, thank-you." She says, "No, I'm not just being polite, I really mean it...our babysitters in Alabama are boring...they just sit on the couch talking on the phone or watching movies on their i-pods. They are boring. You aren't like that.")
The Brook girls had been wanting to watch the High School Musical 2 and I thought that tonight would be a good night to let them watch it, with their cousins and all. So I brought the laptop (which has the movie on it). I had planned on playing it off of I-tunes--which usually works. For some reason, it wouldn't work for me tonight. Every time I clicked on the "I-tunes" tab, a sign would pop up saying "No wireless connection." Finally I decided that it wouldn't play because it has no Internet (again, this has never been a problem). Anyhow, I asked Brandon (Joslyn's husband) if they had a router. He said that he did, but it isn't wireless. For thirty something minutes he rummaged through cupboards and the garage looking for the cable that would enable the Internet on the laptop so that we could watch the movie. After a long time of looking, he finally found it and had to connect it to his computer...which took another fifteen minutes or so. After it was all connected and everything was set to go, Holly walks in the house with her DVD collection, and says, "Girls I have the High School Musical 2, if you want to watch it!" I started laughing and said, "That would have been nice to know...45 minutes ago!" What are the odds of that happening?
I still miss Bubbles. I was telling Shelbie tonight, that he was the only cat I've ever had that wanted to sleep as close as he possibly could to me. I was telling her, how he would sleep so close to me at night (on my pillow) that I could bury my face in his belly and he'd purr and roll around. He was so sweet at night! A few nights ago, Shelbie's best friend Catie came over to stay the night with her. They were watching "The High School Musical" in the living room, and I was watching it with them. Finally I got tired and decided to go to bed. I went to my room and put my i-pod on it's dock and played the High School Musical on it. I was laying at the end of the bed, so that I could see the I-pod screen, and Bubbles was at the head of the bed. He was sleeping when I came to bed, but as soon as I started playing the movie he woke up and was very curious. He came creeping to the end of the bed and stared at the i-pod screen with utmost fascination. Finally he perched himself on the edge of the pillow--directly in front of the i-pod screen and proceeded to watch the ENTIRE movie!! It was so cute, his little head bobbed up and down with the actors and every time a song came on, his tiny ears would perk up. When he was sick, my mom told me to go lay him down and play a movie for him, and he watched the same movie twice. He had such character. I really miss him. I told my mom that for my birthday in October (so it's 5 months away) I want a new kitten. I told her I want it to be long haired and gray, and I has to have the Parvo shot before it even sets foot in the house. She's not sure if 5 months is long enough, so I told her that if she still feels that way come October, I can wait until Christmas. No matter what, though, I want another kitten. I don't really like cats, but loosing two kittens has really made me a cat fan. I wish the other cats in our house liked me more. We have five cats in our house, and not one of them will sleep with me, or even let me pet them. Isn't that sad?
