Success at the Y!

I declared this week boot camp at the Y.  I thought, I have got to get this kid to go to a nursery.  I'm just going to take her every day to the Y to go to the nursery.  Even if I don't workout.  So I took them in and only signed them in for 20 minutes.  As soon as they picked her up out of my arms, the screaming started.  "Bye Emilie, mommy will be back!  Have fun!" and I ran up the steps to get to my workout.  Once I hit 20 minutes I walked back down to the nursery and there she was.  Sucking on a pacifier, playing with toys, surrounded by friends.  Happy.  Happy!!!!  My Emilie!  One of the workers saw me and motioned me to go on.  So I went and did the stair master for 10 minutes and decided that I better go back and pick her up while she is happy so she doesn't think that when she screams, I will return.  What a great day for Emilie at the Y!

Aubrie at the car wash today, trying to figure out what's happening.

Aubrie not so much.  I went in to pick her up next and I like to watch her.  She doesn't notice when I walk in and so I always just stand there and watch her interact with her friends.  She's so funny.  Today she was on top of one of their slides and a little boy was blocking the slide, trying to grab a toy out of her hand.  I heard her say, "No, this is Aubrie's!"  The boy had a pacifier in his mouth, so he didn't say anything back.  (way too old for a pacifier)  So she stood there and waited for him to go down but he then turned around again and SMACKED Aubrie in the face. 

Moms, have you ever seen your kid get hit by another kid??  Wow.  My heart just hurt.  I about came unglued and gave that kid a "come to Jesus" talk.  But luckily one of the workers witnessed it as well and she took him off the slide and told him not to hit.  Aubrie came down the slide and yelled, "Mommy!!!" and came running with a smile.  Clearly the smack didn't hurt her any. And who knows, maybe they were bothering each other and I didn't see her do something mean to him.  But I was just heart broken.  I don't want her to learn to hit, much less to get hit by someone else.  So I took this as a time to have a teaching moment.  I told her thank you for not hitting him back and that I'm sorry he hit her.  I explained to her that God loves us and doesn't want us to hurt others.  We need to love everybody.  

I got to thinking on my way home (after getting flipped off for driving to slow and honked at for trying to back out of my parking space) that I need to watch ALL of my moves.  I have to make sure that Aubrie sees me giving other people the same love that God gives us.  God loves the young man who flipped me off.  And he loved the mom whose time was more important and had to speed past me before I could pull out.  I get scared about being a parent sometimes.  I will fail.  I won't be perfect.  My girls will probably have some horrible habit that they picked up from me and I'll hate myself for it.  But I've got to do my best... and man, sometimes that is hard.  

My crew playing after dinner

We got feedback from our "showing" yesterday.  They gave us "good"s across the board, but put that they were not interested.  I'm sure had nothing to do with our clothes and toys laying out every where...

Leftovers tonight.  Delicious.  And derby pie is actually pretty good.  I'm going to look up some different recipes tonight and find out how Rhonda made hers.  Love to all!

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