Playing COD =/= Babysitting?

[xxmadsenxx]

Jenny's friend asked us if we could babysit her baby last minute. She had some type of work-related emergency meeting thing or something. I don't really know. Jenny explained it to me, but honestly, it went in one ear and out the other. I just knew I was on babysitting duty by myself for a couple hours since Jenny had a hair appointment. Luckily she's a really easy baby to take care of. She's about six months old, I think. Maybe five. Something like that. Jenny came home to find me playing COD MW3 (Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3...I guess I could've just written it out the first time) with the baby in my lap. According to Jenny, that is not good babysitting lol. The baby had a little toy she was chewing on and was perfectly content. I thought it was fine. Jenny thought otherwise. Apparently we have different ideas of what makes a good babysitter hahaha. Ella was asleep the whole time, so that was nice, at least. But whatever, I played plenty of video games with Evan in my lap when he was a baby, and he turned out just fine. If Jenny thinks the same thing won't happen with Ella sometimes, she should think again.

That makes me sound bad haha. It's not like that's what I do all the time. But I don't see the harm in doing it occasionally when they're tiny. They'd just be sitting/lying there anyway, so I might as well get in a little video game time. It's not like I played games like COD and Grand Theft Auto around Evan when he got a little older, and I won't with Ella. But babies don't know or care. As long as I'm not blowing people up or killing hookers in front of them by the time they're one or so, they're fine.

If Jenny can put a baby in a little bouncy seat while she does her makeup, I can put a baby in my lap to play video games. Yeah, getting ready for the day is a little different, so I don't know if that's really a valid argument, but that's ok. It works for me.

It's not like Jenny got mad at me for it or anything. She kind of just rolled her eyes haha.

Pointless entry. I'm just writing this because I'm bored.

Oh, edited to add: It's not like I played it the whole time. It was about 30-45 minutes. I also fed her, played with her, and read to her, so it wasn't all video games. I'm not THAT bad of a babysitter haha.

And with Evan and Ella, I'm very engaged. When Evan was a baby I played with him and read to him all the time, and constantly gave him attention (and I still do). But there were plenty of times where I'd hold him in my lap and do the video game thing for short periods of time. I really am a good dad, I promise haha. But I think you guys know that.

Comments

[lightsabove.livejournal.com]

I agree :P

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

With me or Jenny? Haha. Either way, it's all good.

[damedosbesos.livejournal.com]

At least you were holding her. Lol.

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

Yeah lol. It really wasn't for that long! She was happy, I was happy, it was all good.

[beautyizdead.livejournal.com]

my brother raised my nephew around him whole he played Warcraft and my nephew is smart and awesome. lol. he's 3 now and when my brother is playing ps3 my nephew will run and grab the broken controller and think he's playing along with my brother so cute.

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

At least it was regular Warcraft, and not WOW haha. It's cute that your nephew does that. I used to do the same thing with Evan. But eventually they get to an age where they know they're not really playing. Once they get old enough to know how to play, it's fun. But the time in between where they know they're not actually playing and where they are too young to know what they're doing kinda sucks. I did pretty bad on some Madden games that way lol.

[brightyell0wgun.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with holding the baby and playing COD :) If she was just sitting there all content and not crying or needing anything than I don't see anything wrong with that :)

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

I agree! Jenny told me she was just giving me shit. She just thought it was funny. She watched me do it with Evan though, so I don't know why this was any different. Maybe she had forgotten.

[xxmadsenxx.livejournal.com]

Lol I should have told her that!

Later on Jenny told me she was just giving me shit.

I can sit on there for hours and hours too. Just not with a baby. A baby (one that's awake, anyway) won't let you sit there for hours and hours haha.