Updates On My Job

It's been a while since I've posted on my blog, other than yesterday, of course. So I thought I'd update you on my day care happenings.

The biggest thing that's happened is that Adam has moved up. Yes, my one and only boy is now in the toddler room. It was a really emotional change for me. Adam's mom gave me a card thanking me for being so good to him and four studio photos of him. She said I was like family. I cried. It's so hard to lose my babies, and it was particularly hard to lose Adam. As I said, he was my only boy and he was so sweet, loving, and naughty! :) Yes, it's hard when they move up, but it's really for their own good. Adam was getting as bored in my class as Emma was before she moved up. He needed to experience things and activities that challenged him and he wasn't getting that in my room. How challenging can a bumblebee rattle be to a 13-month-old? Not very. So Adam is now in the toddler class with a host of new toys to play with, new lessons to learn, and new friends to make. I know he'll do just great, but I miss him so!

The Halloween Festival that I was so worried about went off without a hitch. It was great! I made a breakfast gift basket that I learned about on the 'net and one of my co-workes gave me an idea for a great game. It was a game that was done at last year's Festival. It was originally called Pin the Nose on the Witch, but I made it Pin the Nose on Frankenstein since all I could find was a Frankenstein doll. I hung the doll from the ceiling and the children had to chew a wad of bubble gum and then try to stick it to Frankenstein's nose while blindfolded. It was a hoot watching the kids grasping at air. I'm pretty sure some of them cheated but I was having so much fun that I didn't make a big deal out of it. The only down side to the Festival is that I didn't sale the most tickets so I didn't win a paid day off work. Aside from that everything went beautifully and I quickly realized that all my worrying was for nothing.

Let's see, what else has happened? Oh yeah, two of my co-workers quit at the same time and without notice. One Monday they just didn't show up for work. And what was really crazy is that we thought one of them was missing, along with her kids. How did we end up thinking that? Well, not only did this particular co-worker not show up for work, but her daughter also didn't show up for school. Another of my co-workers went to her apartment and discovered that no one had been there all weekend. By Wednesday the police had been called and we were getting REALLY scared. Then we found out that the co-worker in question was alive and well and had taken off to south Texas with a friend. Talk about mad! Here we were worried sick about her and all along she was sitting pretty with her friend! Please folks, if you want to quit your job do it right and give a two-week notice, especially if you work in day care. Don't leave your co-workers and the children hanging.

Well, that's it for now. I'll try not to let so much time past between posts again. I was very busy the last couple of weeks and I didn't have time to blog as much as I wanted. And I have to admit that when I did get to a computer I just surfed the 'net to decompress, my mind being too tired to think of what to write or how to write it. I'm sure every worker out there understands, especially those who live among the ankle biters.

Maya's New Tooth

Maya got her first tooth! Finally, after thinking she'd never cut any teeth, I spied a little ivory point protruding from her bottom gums yesterday morning. I was so excited I wrote the news on my dry erase board so everyone would know. Maya's mom was happy, too. She and Maya's grandmother were getting worried that she was over a year old and still had no teeth. Well now they can lay their worries to rest. Maya has a tooth!