You Know You're an Au Pair when....

You Know You’re an Au Pair (of Three Little Boys) when…

• Your host kids find it VERY weird that you don’t know much about Chubaka, Luke Skywalker, Anakin, Princess Leia…
• Therefore you’ve been taught all about Star Wars in less than three days
• You’ve sat through the first movie of Star Wars
• Only to afterwards be shown this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0z_TU4Gw5o on YouTube by a 5 and 7 year-old
• You then regret to have watched the entire first movie when 2.30 min YouTube could have explained it all
• Light saber is a new yet very important vocabulary
• You become really good at hiding light sabers - for the sake of everybody's safety
• You know that the Death Star is complicated to put back together
• You are asked by a three year old whether you know how to spell "Lego Star Wars" and if so if you could please type it into YouTube
• Angry Birds is your new favorite game
• The boys know how to play Angry Birds a lot better than you
• You are told that “you don’t know anything about life” twice….by a 4 year-old and a 5 year-old
• You start doubting that you know anything about life
• Your host kids start a new show on youtube and you want to help them to “skip-the-ad.” You forget they don't need your help. They know how to do it themselves. They are 3 and 4.
• Coming up with creative ideas for behavior charts becomes your new favorite activity
• Choosing toys from the dollar isle at target to put in their reward box becomes your second favorite activity
• Leftover mac ‘n' cheese with hot dogs or meatballs turns out to be an incredibly good hangover cure
• If we're out of all food, mac 'n' cheese with veggies is considered a somewhat healthy lunch
• You walk outside at night only to notice that you have glow-in-the-dark stickers on your pants
• You learn to live on a week by week, sometimes day by day schedule
•  You find toy cars and other kid’s stuff in your room, closet and purse
• You start seeing cool toys that your host kids like – EVERYWHERE
•  You invent lies in the hope of not having to explain things all the time
• The kids blow your cover and discover you’re a really bad liar
• You treat your friends like little kids
• It becomes difficult to talk about anything other than kids in your free time
• You get extremely excited about shooting squirt guns super far
•  You get extremely excited about blowing super big soap bubbles
• Everytime you put the kids on a swing in the park they fall off
• You wonder what you're doing wrong with these swings
• You spend your time experimenting with soap and water to find the perfect soap/water consistency for bubbles 
• Your habit of blowing bubbles with bubble gum becomes a useful tool to distract the kids
• You find out that sometimes working hungover or when extremely tired makes you come up with REALLY creative ideas
• At the library you only look for lego, star wars, dino and firetruck books
• You’ve become a master at painting lots of pictures of yellow firetrucks with a ladder and a bucket
•  Everytime you see a Firetruck on the street you wish the kids were there to see it too
• You love your host kids, because you know that at the end of the day you can give ‘em back to their parents. Phew.
• You find that being an only child is the best thing that ever happened to you
• You find that having children is overwhelming
• You promise yourself to not have more than one child – ever

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