John

The boys with their babysitter John

Giving John a high school graduation card

Thursday May 24, 2010

During the school year Helen has to stay late at school from time to time. Usually it's just once a week and she only needs babysitting for 30 minutes or so. When Adam was still in daycare, Derek would have to take the daycare bus from his school back to the daycare. Once Adam started school we hated the idea of doing after school daycare for the little time that we needed it. Luckily, we've always been able to find a high school kid in the neighborhood to watch the boys for a little while until Helen gets home. The high school kids start their school day earlier so they get out earlier than the younger kids. It works out great.

This year our neighbor, John, was the babysitter for the boys and they just love him. John plays with them and brings over cool games and movies. It's so crazy to see all these kids that we've known since they were running around in diapers now babysitting our kids and going off to college.