Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Baby Instructions

We recently went on a week-long vacation to Mexico with friends who have a 3-month-old baby. They made it seem pretty easy - she just ate and slept the whole time.

We babysat her one day while her parents went scuba diving. According to this website, we made a couple of mistakes:

Baby Instructions



But she seemed to really enjoy being hosed down for her bath and she almost beat Ed at chess.

1 comment:

Valancy Bastian said...

Okay, that was hilarious. I think we laughed hardest at "waking baby" followed by "introducing baby to pet". As for clearing baby's nose, my personal favorite method (because you can never find a nose-sucker when you need one) is to place your mouth over baby's nose and suck gently. Then spit. It took til my third baby before I was willing to try this. Apparently this was how midwives would suction a newborn baby's nose after the birth. hmmm