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.
Friday, July 11
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.
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.
Thursday, July 3
Friday, June 27
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!
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!"
Friday, June 20
Atypical
So, Wednesday night I was sitting at the computer when my little Stephanie comes up to me and asks me if I would lay down with her in her bed. I said I would since I was planning to get Philip in bed before the other kids' bedtime anyway. The poor little thing had to ask me 3 times before I realized she wanted to go to bed NOW. (yes, Mommy is a little dense sometimes - Duh!) It was 6:30 - bedtime is usually at 9. We went and laid down in her bed and it only took about a minute and a half for her to go to sleep. I guess I should have known something was wrong then, but I figured she was just worn out from her busy day - they had a bar-b-q and swam in the kiddie pool all day at daycare. She woke up at 9:30 and had a cup of milk, then she put herself back in bed. OK, by now I was concerned, she was just a little warm so I gave her some Motrin thinking she would be fine by morning.
In the morning, she got up, refused to eat anything, had some milk, and put herself back to bed. So I took Philip to daycare. Steffi was up when I got home but we laid down in her bed and she went to sleep. She had 2 naps before noon. We had to take the older kids to swim lessons at 6. When we got home, I started the bath, but Stephanie had already gone to bed. Luckily, this morning there was no sign of a fever. She wanted to stay home (of course) but I have to work today so I took her to daycare and am hoping she will be fine.
Now John's not feeling well. His throat hurts again. Now I ask - do you think he took all of his medicine for the strep throat 2 weeks ago? Of course not. I told him to go take his medicine. What I want to know is, how do he and Stephanie get sick together while I remain healthy. She never leaves my side so shouldn't I be in the middle of this somehow? Not that I'm complaining, I'm just confused. I'll just count my lucky stars and knock on wood that I can stay healthy.
In the morning, she got up, refused to eat anything, had some milk, and put herself back to bed. So I took Philip to daycare. Steffi was up when I got home but we laid down in her bed and she went to sleep. She had 2 naps before noon. We had to take the older kids to swim lessons at 6. When we got home, I started the bath, but Stephanie had already gone to bed. Luckily, this morning there was no sign of a fever. She wanted to stay home (of course) but I have to work today so I took her to daycare and am hoping she will be fine.
Now John's not feeling well. His throat hurts again. Now I ask - do you think he took all of his medicine for the strep throat 2 weeks ago? Of course not. I told him to go take his medicine. What I want to know is, how do he and Stephanie get sick together while I remain healthy. She never leaves my side so shouldn't I be in the middle of this somehow? Not that I'm complaining, I'm just confused. I'll just count my lucky stars and knock on wood that I can stay healthy.
Wednesday, June 4
Sleepy Head
Philip actually took a nap at naptime this weekend. So I got to lay down with my little Stephanie for her nap. It was really annoying - she kept wiggling and whispering to herself. Until - I finally reached over and started rubbing her head. Then she lay still and shut her eyes and her mouth and just relaxed. After a little while I had to stop to switch positions and with her eyes still shut and still lying still, she whispered, "Please do it again." She really is my little sweetheart.
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