I forgot

Just what it's like coming back to a room of toddlers who haven't been to school in 5 days. Oh and our schedule changed. Oh and we had a sub. The worst sub ever. She just stands there, repeating everything I say and I sweep through the room wiping noses, breaking up fights and comforting the crying children- yes I am that super hero.

I was greated yesterday morning by over half my class in tears and the day didn't get much better after that. Of course, in the middle of all that snot there were some funny moments...

During a doctor play idea (fully clothed of course) one friend was using the lil thingy that the doctor hits your knee with. Well apparantly she was using this tool to "fix" her friend. Except her friend didn't want to be "fixed" (ie: hit multiple times) with the hammer like object. When the child wasn't listening to her yelling no! She pulled her hair. All out girl fight in the Koala Room. My favorite though is the way this one reacts to having her hair pulled- "NO, that's Mine! Give me back my hair!" Then works really hard to collect each piece of hair that came out of her head.

Another creepy crawly made its appearance in the classroom. As Sally was getting up from nap, we were putting her blankets away. As she stood up, I noticed something on her cot. This is when I began praying "don't turn around, don't turn around." Luckily someone else distracted her and she walked away without ever seeing what was laying on her cot. Somehow, she spent her entire nap cuddled up with a big, brown, crumpled, spider. Thank God it was dead! But how did it get there. It was not there prenap so either

a) during the quiet, calm of naptime a suicidal spider crawls out, sees the cozy green blanket. Climbs inside and hunkers down for its own nap. Then in the course of this, somehow ends up crumpled and dead. Hmmm. or

b) it arrived to us already crumpled and dead either in someone's shoe, shirt or blankets from home and somehow we didn't notice till after nap.

Seriously it was lying in the middle of her cot. Seriously I did not freak out (yay me!) Parents and I had a good chuckle about it that night, but still wondering how it got there...

Even in the drama of a first day back, a break is definately welcomed. I spent some serious quality time with my couch including all day Friday. That's right in spite of phone calls to rush to the nearest sale, I spent all day in my jammies. Made a big pot of soup and relaxed all day. Mmm