Yes, Elijah Brooks is 14 1/2 months old and has never been left with a teenage babysitter..., until tonight. Jay and I had a dinner with our Senior Pastor/his wife, and our Associate Pastor/his wife. The 3 ministers of the church and their wives met tonight for dinner and to talk about ministry goals for the year and to pray for one another. Our Senior pastor's daughter (a very mature and super sweet 16 year old), came over to bathe Elijah Brooks and put him to bed. I was pretty anxious about leaving him for someone else to put him to bed, but as soon as she got here, he reached for her and started playing with her - he's only seen her 2 x's. When I was leaving, I simply told him "bye bye", and didn't make a big deal about leaving. He turned around from playing with Laura and said very confidently, "bye bye"! We prayed for him as we were driving away and had a wonderful dinner with the other pastor's. I had told Laura that he would probably cry for 30-60 seconds when she put him in the bed, but he will usually settle himself down. When we got home she said that he didn't cry at all! She said she was so worried that he didn't cry that she went back upstairs to check on him and he was sound asleep :)
This was a big night for us and I am just so thankful that he did so well. She also said that she told her friends at school that she was so excited to be babysitting the sweetest, cutest little boy she had ever met - and she chose to miss the HUGE rival basketball game at her school to come here!! Isn't she just the best? You can make very good money babysitting, so we probably won't be having that many because we can't afford it and we hardly leave him. But if we ever have something that we need to do, it is so nice that we have someone that we can trust - and that our son obviously loves - of course his Bebe and E-Daddy will be called first..., that's for you Mom and Dad, just making sure you know you haven't been displaced!
I just had to blog about yet another milestone so that I remember in 10 years! This blog is more for me than anyone else :)
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But we love hearing about it too! It's a huge milestone and I am so proud of him for being such a wonderful and sweet boy.
I am totally impressed. . . we haven't left Stokes with a teenage babysitter yet!!! Glad y'all are doing well and that you had a good night out.
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