The Plan

Since our friends Dave and Kristin had their little baby a few weeks ago, the girls have been begging to babysit. They don't understand that they can't babysit a newborn baby. They just think she is a little doll and want to play house with her. Today my oldest says "mom, I have a idea." Uh, oh...here we go. "What's you idea?" "Let's buy them a gift card at a really nice restaurant. You know, the kind that you can't take babies to?" "That way they won't be able to take the baby and we'll have to babysit." I explain that they live pretty far away, all the way in Aurora in fact, and that the grandma would just babysit if they went out to dinner. Then my oldest says "duh, mom, we'd just buy them a gift card for a restaurant right by our house."