A little bundle

Last weekend we had the privilege of a bundle of joy come to us. Out next door neighbors wanted to do something for themselves for their wedding anniversary and for one day and night and asked if we would take care of there 3 month old baby girl. Her name is Rhetta Gene.

Rhetta Gene came to the house around 10:00 am Saturday morning. OK so I know I'm not a dad but I have nieces and nephews and they were once that age and I thought I did a great job helping out taking care of them when they needed it . I thought ok Gary, you have done this before , should be a piece of cake. Heather picked her up from her carrier and Rhetta was smiling and cooing and I came over and to say hi and when Rhetta saw me her blue eyes got very big and started to water up, her bottom lip started to quiver and she let out this blood curdling scream. From the sound that came out of that little body she seemed to have fully grown set of adult lungs. I still bucked up and continued to be bound and determined to have some sort of bond with this little baby.

Heather and Rhetta bonded and had a good time. (of course Heather babysits our neighbors kids often)

as the night moved on Rhetta was fed and burped and fell asleep. Rhetta is a pretty good baby, she doesn't cry constantly unless its the usual, Being hungry uncomfortable sick etc, or even the dreaded terrible awful nasty thing that makes you want to gag, the dirty diaper. ewwwww

Rhetta went to sleep, and she slept for quite sometime to. Heather got a call from her friend and they went out for a bit. I sat at the computer and the baby was next to me fast asleep.

as the night went on she was still sleeping like a little angel. but it was quiet too quiet. then it happened . I started to hear a very familiar sound. Remember when I said she seemed to have lungs like an adult? Well this little girl could sure pass gas like one to. She was farting up a storm, wow I was hearing noises coming from that baby, I looked down at her and she was still asleep and was seemed to have a little contented grin on her cute little face. I chuckled a little bit and still kept working on the computer. then I heard her squirming and looked as she woke up. Ok, this is it Yellow alert. I had a bottle in hand ready go.

I bent down and picked her up and to my surprise she didn't cry, in fact she smiled at me. I was smitten. I held her in my arm and began to feed her. She was hungry.

So here I was at my computer desk baby in one arm with my head propped in a way that I could hold her bottle with my chin while my other hand was on the mouse going to the places on the web I needed to go. I was quite proud of my self. I was handling things pretty good. I lifted her up and put her up to my shoulder to burp her again I heard noises that sounded more adult then baby when she burped. And then it happened. the thing I was dreading. at first the smell came. I had forgotten what that smell was like and the farts began to sound like they were a little bit wet. ewwwwwww. Ok Gary, you better check. So I checked the diaper, My eyes began to water and my bottom lip began to quiver. Now I knew then why she smiled at me when I picked her up. ha ha ha look what I have for you old man . the situation was getting dire and Heather was still gone.

It was time. RED ALERT. I set her down and put on my bomb squad gear, undressed the child and took off the diaper. At that moment I was very grateful the diaper had that elastic around the legs because what was in there was sure to squish out. It seemed like time stood still at that moment I sat there wondering how could something so much come out of a little thing like that . I went to clean her up, wiping away my watery eyes with a sock wrapped around my nose and gloves on. (part of the bomb squad gear) I folded up the diaper and put on a new one. I grabbed the dirty diaper and got rid of it as fast as I could.

After that little ordeal Heather came home and fed her a little.

it was getting late and we were no used to having a baby in the home. it was time to go to bed but Rhetta was wide awake and even when we put her in the carrier she would begin to cry. We though we could take shifts and one of us would go sleep while the other would watch her. Every coo and goo goo that came from Rhetta Heather would shoot out from the bed room and say whats wrong. Heather went back to bed. It was getting later and later and Rhetta was still wide a wake. Heather came back out and said I was over tired and that she would take over. I decided to let Heather go back to sleep since she was tired to. I stayed with this little girl.

it came up to 2 am and I had her in my arms rocking her back and forth in my chair. I was bound and determined to have her go to sleep.

I walked the streets of Queens and Brooklyn New York. I was mugged and shot at. I was there when the World Trade Center was bombed the first time. I stood up to guys twice my size ridiculing me because I was white . If I could do these things I could make this child fall asleep.

At 4:30 am, mountain time. Heather was asleep and so did Rhetta.

The next morning Rhetta's parents came home and her mom came and to pick her up. Heather gave her to her mom and I came around to say goodbye. instead of crying when she saw me Rhetta smiled and giggled. it was very cool. I think we had bonded.

A Challenge

A friend of mine sent me this. Its a pretty cool challenge.

Voting day

I voted today. McCain all the way, but I think Obama is going to win. It was cool to vote this time.

Instead of the same old poke out the little hole of who you wanted, I got to sit at a scanner. The attendants took my ballet and put in in the scanner and then a touch screen came up and I was able to select who I wanted in office by just touching the screen like my palm pilot.

I am sure that is normal for everyone else but here in the small town of Burley, that's something new. Of all the years I have been voting, its been , Stand at the booth, take out a sharp metal pocking device the size of a pencil and poke out the little hole.

We will see who our new President will be soon.

Halloween Recap.

Well, lets recap shall we. This last week had one of the great holidays to it. Halloween. Halloween is one of my favorites and I usually dress up and decorate the house and scare little kids when they ring the doorbell.

This year though was pretty dry. I didn't have the vibe to dress up. Maybe it had something to do with the weather because it has been raining all week and still is to this day. So there was some BLAH, to Halloween. I also noticed that not very many kids went out door to door anyway.

Heather and I went to the church for a little get together and some dinner and after that there was a children s gathering out side in the parking lot with there parents called a "trunk or treat" Its much like trick or treating but you go from car to car to car and the adults pass out candy to all the kids that are dressed up in there costumes and then go home. Its the safe way to Trick or Treat because you go to people you trust. To be honest it sucks because of all the unsafe things that can happen to little kids and the bad stuff that gets put into candy that could be in your bags.

I remember when I was growing up My Brothers and sister would go all over the neighbor hood and all across town. Those were simpler days back then. I do remember one scare when some one said they found a razor blade that some one had put inside an apple. But that was rumors , here say and it was not confirmed. Even then we still trekked on seeing who could get the most candy that night.

There still were people that decorated for Halloween. Here is a couple of pictures of our neighbors house across the street










Now with the new week coming and yes you guessed it, tomorrow if voting day. We will see how this new President will help us (or hinder us even more) works out. As part of this new week, my new work schedule starts. I will be working 6:30 am to 3:30 pm Monday through Friday. I am very happy to have my weekends back.

Also I wanted to share with you a video I received in my email today. I thought it was cool.

I leave you now with this video to watch and talk to you all again soon. Happy voting.


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