i want these!

Dang! Check out these Napoleon Dynamite action figures! They look pretty sweet.

Babysitting was fun last night...there were two brothers, 6 and 3. They're actually the kids of the family I used to rent the in-law unit from, the one I just moved out of at the end of May. They're all really nice. The 3-year-old is the autistic boy I've been taking care of (which I just realized I never really talked about here...I should do that), and the 6-year-old is obsessed with birds of prey and hurting his younger brother. Everything went pretty well - we watched movies, jumped on the trampoline, played soccer, and did puzzles.

There was only one midly gross situation, but it's kind of funny. At one point I noticed the younger kid's diaper needed to be changed - he smelled pretty bad. I started looking for the diapers and wipeys so I could change him, but I couldn't find anything. I went all around the house (which is pretty big - it's worth over a million dollars in the Oakland hills, overlooking the SF bay), but by the time I got back into the kid's room, he too had discovered the poop in his diaper. He had smeared his shit all over his hands very thickly. It looked like mud. It was smeared on the carpet, little chunks everywhere. It was on his feet, legs, pants, shirt...basically all over the place. It smelled terrible. I had him go in the bathroom to wash his hands, but he just began rubbing his wet shitty hands all over the counter, in the sink, on the cabinets...everything within reach, except for me, thankfully. I eventually got everything cleaned up and under control, but man, that sucked. And stunk.

Busty Wilde + life + babysitting + Napoleon Dynamite