Babysitting

Yesterday was liane and daves wedding anniversary and i babysat for them while they went to the movies to see harry potter. It was the first time that id babysat billy for longer than an hour but i had it all sussed, i was prepared.... things were great wen they left. all the kids were in a good mood and i had brought ethan and kyla along so we were all set. untill billy got tired. but still i was arrogant and thought 'not a problem!!! so i changed his nappy and fed him his bottle and he was drifting off to sleep when i put him in his cot. jasper had fallen asleep on the couch and the kids were watching tv so i thort the rest of the night would be cruisy. THEN billy woke up. he wanted something. aunty didnt know what. i was so prepared that i forgot to ask liane any details on what he would need to go to sleep. so i plucked him out of bed and tried to give him another bottle. nope he just kept spitting that out. checked his nappy, gave him cuddles. nope that didnt work either. the poor little tyke just kept howling. and howling. so i rocked him and put on a brave face. but inside i was like 'OMG he hates me. wat do i do?' liane had sed to ring if there was any problems but i didnt want to ruin their night so i just kept rocking him. 20mins later ruby had had enough and wanted me as she was tired and missing her parents. i tried to pass billy to kyla so i could reassure ruby but she ran a mile. so as bad as i felt i put little billy back to bed. he cried for a while and finally fell asleep. i felt so bad. when all was quiet, ruby and i sneaked into his room and put the blankets on him properly and then sneaked out again. when dave and liane came back, i told them about my experience and liane said to me ' you should have given him his dummy.' and as she said that i remembered her telling me as they were leaving about the dummy AND i had moved it out of the way in his cot when i put him to bed duhhhhh. but now i no for next time :)