Mommy Time

I got to be with my Mommy and just me today. We took Philip to daycare but I got to go to the doctor. Then we went to WalMart to get my medicine. And we looked at sunglasses. And we looked at cards that play music. Then I had to go to daycare and I was sad.

Nighttime Conversation

"I love Mommy and Daddy and HaydenMeredithPhilip. And my Paula Grandma and Grandpa & Grandma. And Peggi and Camden and Hunter. And hamburgers."

Tales From the Daycare

Apparently, my little Stephanie is very protective of her baby brother. It has been reported that she follows him around the daycare and watches over him. If he happens to go into a corner of the room that she can't see, and another child follows him, Stephanie will nonchalantly walk around until she can see them.

Tales From the Daycare

Apparently, my little Stephanie is very protective of her baby brother. It has been reported that she follows him around the daycare and watches over him. If he happens to go into a corner of the room that she can't see, and another child follows him, Stephanie will nonchalantly walk around until she can see them. Apparenly, she is good at nonchalant since it took them awhile to figure out that was what she was doing. But then they noticed, she does it all the time. Alma admires this trait in her and, in fact, tries to get her other children with younger siblings to watch out for them as well. She's got 4 kids of her own so she knows the value of having siblings looking out for each other.

See, this is something John doesn't understand - being an only child and all. He doesn't like our kids to fight or bicker with each other - ever. But he doesn't get the fact that even though they fight sometimes, they still also look out for each other. My sister and I didn't fight a whole lot, but we did sometimes. And I tormented her occasionally (that is my right as the oldest, isn't it?) But nobody else tortured her - not when I was around anyway. And I will bet you, when I send Meredith to school with Hayden this fall that he will be looking out for her (as much as he can).

Anyway, back to Daycare Tales... Alma and Chris also seem to have some sort of rivalry going on. We got to the daycare the other day and Alma was leaving to go home for just a minute. She asked Stephanie if she would like to go with her and, of course, Stephanie jumped at the chance. Chris just looked at her in disbelief and said, "That is not fair. You are cheating to be her favorite!"

Hate to tell ya, but I believe she's already won. Steffi LOVES Ms Alma. So do I - I am so glad I found her on the daycare providers website. I actually went and visited 2 places. The first lady was ok but she just seemed stuffy to me - I can't explain it and I'm sure she loves her "children" just as much and I know they had a bigger backyard with more play equipment but something didn't quite mesh for me. Then I met Alma and, wow! The love she feels for her kids is almost palpable. But she also kept them in line. It just felt right to me immediately. Then I realized all the kids at the first place were white. Not so with Alma. Her daycare is closer to downtown so most of her kids are black and Hispanic. And to be honest, I wanted the diversity for the kids. I mean they are going to be going to school with all types of kids, why segregate them now? Let them figure out now how alike we all are and they won't even think about it when they're older. Anyway, it's what I'm used to in a daycare - seeing all the different colors of kids all playing together. It makes me happy.

Haircut

She's a cutiepie. And, it doesn't hurt her to comb it anymore!

No More Tears?

My little girl didn't cry this morning when I dropped her off at daycare. OK. She cried a little before we left the house. But she didn't cry the whole bike ride over there. And as soon as we stopped Ms Alma came out and welcomed "her favorite little princess" back to the royal kingdom. She did ask me for her kiss & hug (Steffi, that is, not Ms Alma) and then she said Good-bye and just walked into the house with Alma. Alma and I were a little shocked but we just went with the flow and didn't make a big deal out of it.

Of course, today is Friday so lets see what happens on Monday!

Narf!

While having supper last night, John and I came to a startling conclusion. We both agree that our little Stephanie is very intelligent. However, he still maintains that she is evil. So the only conclusion we can come to on this is she will become an evil genius.

We can picture it now...when she's 13 some little boy will come up to her hoping for a date. He'll say "What are you doing tonight, Steffi?"

And she will answer "The same thing I do every night. Try and take over the world!"