In celebration of Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day, the Babble staff decided to bring our children into the office. Of course, all of our children are between the ages of 1 month and 4 years, so the concept was a little bit lost on them, but it was fun nonetheless. Here's the play-by-play. And check out the photo gallery on Babble's Facebook page!
10am - Ada (Editor in Chief) and Oliver (2) arrive on time, with snacks.
10:15am - Gwynne (Senior Editor) and Anselm (1) arrive late. Oliver demonstrates that his toy taxi cab goes vroom. Anselm is confused.
10:20 am - Alisa (Co-Publisher) arrives with Declan (4) and Grey (1). Declan brings a rocket ship with a hollow compartment "for satellites," immediately swaps it for Oliver's taxi.
10:30 am - The kids invade the Nerve.com office next door. Oliver and Declan commandeer the pool table, which is approximately as tall as Oliver.
10:35 am - Anselm discovers the official Take Your Sons and Daughters To Work Day balloons that were sent to our office, happily chases a balloon back to Babble HQ.
10:40 am - April (Blogs and Community Manager) arrives with Judah (5 weeks) -- first time back in the office since maternity leave! Judah is ridiculously cute. While we're oohing over him, Oliver and Declan take off for hte conference room, where they draw on the dry erase board and have pretend meetings, wherein they determine that taxis and spaceships are both cool, and that they have great potential as a future revenue stream.
11:00 am - Anselm tries his first carbonated beverage: Mandalee (Babble Head Designer)'s Perrier. He spits it out and then immediately drinks some more.
11:10 am - First meltdown! Anselm attempts to pull the plug on Gwynne's computer, gets very upset when his efforts are thwarted.
11:15 am - Snacktime. Popcorn, Cheerios, raisins, bagels and apple juice. To all future employees of our office building: this is the moment all those Cheerios found their way into the floorboards, window sills and air ducts.
11:25 am - Oliver makes the rounds in the office saying "goodbye" to everyone, apparently under the impression that he is leaving. He waits for the elevator, determines he is not yet leaving, shrugs and returns to the pool table.
11:30 am - Three of Declan's neighborhood friends arrive. MASS CHAOS!
11:35 am - Oliver discovers "Wow Wow Wubzy" toy sent by Nickelodeon people. Anselm discovers roll of masking tape. Grey discovers balloons. Joy reigns.
11:40 am - Running. Lots of running. Gwynne and Ada take turns watching each other's kids so they can write this all up.
11:45 am - Judah falls asleep amid the chaos. He is officially cutest baby in history of world. Were all these other loud, busy, chattery kids ever so tiny? Impossible.
11:47 am - Some kids are crying in the conference room. Oliver has climbed into his stroller and is sitting there patiently waiting to go in the elevator. We have gotten absolutely no work done. Except this. Happy Take Your Children to Work Day!
For more "Take Your Children to Work Day" coverage, check out Jeanne Sager's article "Me and My Shadow."
