A.M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A.M is the love of my life. She's 17 months old and boy is she a handful, but you can't do anything but love her. She is also one of many foster kids in the daycare. I must admit I spoiled her and I'm probably half of the reason why she is the way she is. I'm so sad though because she going to be transitioning to the toddler room in a month. I'm happy and sad because I don't want her to leave, but then I do cause she's so bad. I really don't care how bad she is because she will always be my love.

TW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

T.W. is one of the babies that I take care of. He's 12 months old, funny, and learning how to walk. I think that hes the toughest baby that I've ever met. About half of the daycare is consisted of foster children, my parents have three themselves, but anywho back to my babies. This poor boy was abused from the time he was a month til he was six months, that's when he was taken away from his parents. I could never understand why anybody would hurt a little baby, it makes no sense to me. I love this kid so much, he's got his own little personality that would make you laugh so hard. But i beilieve that he's a very strong little boy.

Just a bad day!!!!!

Today was just a bad day. So I woke up this morning to the blog that I fell asleep to typing lastnite and realized that I never sent it. So that just threw my day off and all that i just woke up in such a bad mood. Yesterday was a pretty easy day I suppose. Well we did everything that we normally do and it was a light load which is always a nice thing, every once in awhile. We had five babies which was lovely so that made my day so much better. The same with today, we danced and played, which was such a blast, but maybe tomorrow will be a more jucier day with better stories.

TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone in the world knows that friday is the best day of the week, unless you have to work of course. So we had another full house today, but ontop of that a list of what me and my co-worker call "chores." So we have a list of things that have to be cleaned every week. The list consumes of bleaching down all cribs, supersaucers, bouncers, riding toys, basically everything thats touches or used by the babies have to be bleached and wiped down. This is not always the easiest of task, especially when you have a bunch of crying babies who all want to take a nap. I beleive it took us abot and hour and a half to clean everything that needed to be cleaned. It was a rough day I'm drained, but it was pay day so I was very excited about that.

"Just a babysitter"

Work was so crazy today. We had a full house today, and that's pretty rare, but boy can I say crazy. It was like a mad house, 9 babies with two teachers is a very big job. People don't understand how difficult our job is, and some people just think were babysitters, but they are sadly mistaken. When you have 9 crying babies all under the age of 16 months things aren't that easy when their pooping, screaming, sick, throwing up etc. Don't get me wrong I love my job and my kids, but i don't think that we get paid enough for all the hard work and time it takes to take care of these kids. When parents can take care of 9 babies and just two of them, get paid close to nothing, work 40 hours a week, go to school full time, and think it's still easy then that's when they can call me "just a baby-sitter."

One of those days

OK so you ever have one of those days that just don't go the way you planned, well that was today. Now I'm suppose to be at work at 7 every morning, but today i woke up at 6:30, everything just went downhill. So you know that rush you get when you wake up suddenly, that's how i felt. So I ran upstairs and opened my sisters door, shes still sleep, so i run to the kids rooms and theie still asleep. At this point I'm screaming at everybody to wake up. Now i have three kids and myself to get ready, I mean their old enough to dress themselves, but you constantly have to be on top of them to hurry up or brush thier teeth, you know the usual stuff kids don't like to do. So i'm rushing everybody out the house and got out by 6:50, got my sister to school and got to work on time. I must say its lovely to only live five minutes from the school and my job. Work on the other hand was so stressful. We had eight kids with only four hands. Crying babies didn't make my day any easier today at all, but in the end it wasn't so terrible

First test run

So I went to work today so excited, because I was going to use all the new interesting information that I had learned at the work shop on Monday. So I walked in my classroom ready to use what I learned, and here comes in one of the babies, who I love, shes my excitement for the day, but neway shes very stubborn and loves to do exactly the opposite of what were saying. So as soon as she comes in she runs up to me and does what she always does every morning. So a couple hours go by and this girl is pretty much tearing apart my room, im going crazy. So I used one the techniques that I learned , hours after hours this just isn't working, so we just end up going back to our old techniques. So not everything works for all children that's what I learned today.

Presidents Day Work Shop

Today I had a work shop. I work at a day care/learning center. I love this job because of the children, but any who back to the work shop. We have a mandatory work shop that we have to go to every presidents days. The only day of the year that we dont have to work but still have to go to work. But anyways we had to be at the meeting at 9, come to find out that the meeting started at 8:30 and on top of that I got lost so we didn't arrive until 9:10. So once again were at this really long boring meeting, sitting in chairs that toddlers sit in for 71/2 hours. Those hours tend to go by so slow when your uncomfortable, tired, and hungry. But it's not all that bad at the end, because I always go home with something new that I learned that I can always use.