David

There is a boy I baby-sit for, his name is David, and he's three years old, a little more than a month younger than my niece Liberty. He's cute, somewhat entertaining, and likes to snatch whatever food I might have made for myself. He also cries at the drop of a hat over quite literally nothing, and I'm at a loss to how to conquer this...that, and he speaks Russian more than English so when I ask him 'skoka' --that's 'what' in R--he replies back with some jibberish that I maybe only know one word of, and it's likely not the important one so I have no idea how to remedy the situation. This little boy is halfway to driving me up the wall, and though I love him as much as I did when he was born, I'm starting to lose my 'aunt' glow now that I'm baby-sitting on a regular basis. There's only so long I can toss a ball back and forth, or race cars across the living room, and I'm not sure what else I can do to entertain him, since Momma doesn't want him watching cartoons...though that's kind of cheating anyway, using the video for a baby-sitter, isn't it? I almost wish I could put him down for a nap like his sister...
But let's think positive here for a moment...
He is pretty easily entertained...
He'll eat most anything I give him, even vegetables, which is rare considering how picky his father is, and how much like him he is in everything else...
He's always happy to see me when I come over...
And he never calls long-distance when he steals my phone...(!!)...
:D
Seriously, though, does anyone have any ideas how to entertain a three-year-old boy and retain sanity at the same time?