We love Robert!

We have a new kid-sitter, and he's quite a score:  our rabbis' thirteen-year-old son.  (We have a husband-and-wife team of rabbis, in case you thought the apostrophe was misplaced.)  His name is Robert, he looks like Harry Potter, he has lovely manners, and he is a huge hit with the kids.  He is not an experienced babysitter, but I spotted him doing a nice job looking after the kids at a temple event, and his parents gave us the go-ahead to get him started.  The first time he played with Jordan and Aaron he brought his gigantic cartridge-loaded nerf guns.  This time, he brought this amazing remote-controlled toy helicopter.  They are inclined to idolize a friendly teenage boy under any circumstances, but with these props, he's a superhero.  His mother was a little anxious as to whether we would be okay with the guns, but for pete's sake what's the point of having a boy babysitter if you don't let it rip with the cartoon violence?  And Robert is really great with the kids.  Tonight we left them alone for the first time and went out to coffee while he put them to bed.  Okay, they duped him into reading the longest book we own and leaving the aquarium light on and the door wide open...  he's a rookie.  But no harm done.  And we get a date night every other Sunday.  Whoopee!