Our Day with Zoey

Yesterday Brielle and I babysat a little 3 month old girl named Zoey. Her mom and dad live across the street from us and are in our ward. Both her mom and dad work so they have to get a babysitter for Zoey. Her mom had someone, but does not trust her anymore, so she is now left to come up with someone to watch her daughter every day while she goes to work. I feel so sad for her. Zoey is her baby that she loves and would love to be with all day and instead is stressfully searching for someone to watch her. She has figured out that her sister will have her one day, her mom another, someone else another and I will start taking Tuesdays. It's so sad that she has to change homes and people every day. So, from now until December Brie and I will spend from 7 am to 5 pm with Zoey.

Yesterday worked out okay. Zoey certainly is a little screamer. She is fine one minute and the next she is screaming and you better find out quick what she wants. Brie just stared at her with a confused look on her face like "what's her problem?" and "who is this girl in our house in my mom's arms?". That is the other problem. She is used to sleeping only in someone's arms. As soon as I put her down to sleep she would wake up crying. I think with a little growing and a little teaching that problem can be resolved, but we had a tricky time with her sleeping yesterday. Mostly, it was just fine. Brie played with her toys and Zoey liked the bouncer chair. As long as I can manage to keep Brielle off of Zoey I'm sure we will really enjoy our babysitting days.