Adventures in Babysitting

Needed an excuse to get this picture off my phone. Here goes.

Over Christmas break I got an email from a friend of mine asking if Karlee and I would be willing to do a little babysitting for them so they could go out for dinner on their anniversary. I told them it would be fine, except Karlee would be working that night. I figured I was the afterthought of the babysitting tandem, but surprising to me I was still their best option.

I got there around 6:30 and my only choir was to keep 4+ month old Madeline happy for an hour and a half, feed her and put her to bed. Shortly after her parents left she realized that I wasn't one of them and started to cry. I tried every trick I could think of (which honestly mostly consists of bouncing around the house and shaking toys that sound cool), but nothing worked. After about 25 minutes of crying I thought at least I could turn on the tv to get some different noise. To my amazement Madeline loved it. For the next hour or so I couldn't stray much farther than 10 feet from the TV or madeline would once again realize that I wasn't her father. Besides that, the night went great. She got to bed on time and her parent got to go on their first date in awhile. BTW, I made it through the night without having to change a diaper :)

Christmas in Montana (Sort of...)

Sorry this is the the first blog in awhile (Mary Ann, as soon as I figure out how to get a picture from a camera to a computer I will post something about my adventures in babysitting).

We were back in Montana a couple weeks before Christmas and spent the first half of the week in Wibaux (hence the picture of me dressed like I might actually do some work). Kelly came down for the weekend so it was good to spend some time with him. It was almost his birthday so we celebrated anyway. We didn't take very many picture in Wibaux :(
We spent the other half of the week in Terry/Wibaux. We got to see Jameson's Christmas concert which was cool. On a sour note, most everyone child in the Crisafulli family was sick at some point when we were home and they gave whatever they had to me. So I spent the last day and a half by the bathroom was no fun. Thankfully, my dad only got a light version of what I had and Karlee and mom came out totally fine. Like always it was great to see everyone, but too short. Guess it has to be that way until everybody moves out to sunny Seattle.